The Dark Knight, in the Microgaming version, is a Batman themed slot machine which offers progressive jackpots and images of one of the most popular superheroes. It’s also a branded release that can be a lot of fun to play. It’s particularly fun if you are a fan of the movie that it is based on. Witness the clash of Batman vs Joker, and maybe walk away with a nice prize as well.
5×3 reels which The Dark Knight uses will have a total of 243 ways to win deployed, for just as many winning combinations. There are huge progressive jackpots to be had from it, and it doesn’t even cost you all that much to play it. Feature wise, it delivers free spins with multipliers, scatters and exciting random features. Thanks to multipliers, a 10,000x jackpot is available as a good target to have, in case you don’t hit the progressive jackpot.
Betting
The Dark Knight is accessible to most players, being a slot machine which doesn’t require a big investment. It needs a minimum bet of $0.30 to get its ways to win active, while the maximum will reach $6. That would be a maximum bet of $0.20 per bet line.
The Dark Knight Jackpot
Things look pretty good here, as The Dark Knight is a branded release and has a big progressive jackpot to give away. There are several smaller ones paid out as well, all of them being given at random to the luckiest players of this slot machine. A 2,000x win is going to be paid out usually though, with the chance to reach 10,000x being there for the free spins, where multipliers also get involved.
The RTP of the game appears to be somewhere around 96%, probably with the progressive jackpot included. Some sources mention an RTP of just 88.12%, and I assume that’s without the jackpot, just for the regular game payouts.
Special Features
It’s not an exciting game just because it’s a branded release and you get to see big Hollywood actors among its symbols. The features do have something to do with it as well, and they can make things a lot more interesting for the player.
Stacked Wilds
These are the Bat Logo icons, which you will see appear in groups of three and often enough covering more than one spot on a reel. It will be a substitute, and as such it will be used in the formation of any type of combination. You just need the wild next to regular symbols that match, so that the requirement for a paying combination can be met.
Batman or Joker
This is a random feature, which has one of the two main characters appearing next to the reels and delivering a random prize, additional wilds or wild reels.
Free Spins
Via Joker scatters, the game can trigger its free spins, whenever at least three of those symbols are in view. You start off with 15 free spins and the 2x multiplier, but then you can get random rewards from Joker or Batman, consisting either of additional free spins or multipliers as high as 5x.
Obviously, it’s at this point that we get the highest potential from the game, since a win can be worth so much more.
Design
As branded games often do, The Dark Knight also relies on images from the actual The Dark Knight film, from 2008, for its major symbols. That’s why you see symbols featuring images of Batman, the Joker, but also other characters present in that film. Logos with the Bat Sign or Royals are some of the other symbols you see, as a feature for the former and as low-paying positions for the latter. It’s not some hugely impressive design, but someone that likes the film will find something to appreciate in the slot as well, thanks to their connection.
Summary
The Dark Knight is a game with a lot to offer, thanks to the progressive jackpot it ends up delivering, and you need to take that into account to see that it’s worth playing.
