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Are you a devoted fan of Yankees, Rangers or Redsox? Do you attend many baseball games? Now, you can play baseball online, from the comfort of your own home. Although, you may have to pay for that as much as for a Yankee game. Why? Because, in my opinion, RTG’s great looking slot “Golden Glove” has some serious flaws which may cost a lot of money those who play it.

At the first sight, this is just another 5-reel, 20-line progressive video slot with a good theme and excellent graphics. It contains characters from all crucial baseball positions – a batter, a catcher, and a runner, then some trophies, tasty hot dogs, baseball caps, helmets and balls, etc. It also features a wild symbol, a scatter symbol (which works in a very strange way), a multiplier, and free spins.

If you decide to play this slot, note that it does offer a wide range of bet amounts you may place. They may vary from $0.01 if you play with a minimum bet on just one line. But also, for those who like to gamble with serious amounts, there are higher sums which can go up to $100 per spin. So, we could say this is one of the good sides of the slot.

On the other hand, it’s necessary to do some explaining in terms of the special features. Those are the following:

Wild Symbol:

Batter, who represents a wild symbol of the slot, can be seen on reels 2, 3, and 4. He serves to replace other symbols in order to form a winning combination. This works for scattered golden gloves as well. And that’s something rarely seen in slots. But don’t get too carried away thinking that this will increase very much your chances to win. This only serves to compensate for the unfavorable setting of scattered gloves.

Scatter Symbol:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a scatter symbol set to act as strangely as in “Golden Glove.” From what I know, scatter symbols mean that they bring wins when they appear anywhere on the reels. In this game, they should trigger a feature round when three or more of them appear left to right or right to left (this sounds good, but…). What isn’t stated in the game rules is that scattered gloves do not behave like a scatter symbol, but they need to be in one of the paylines. And this doesn’t work only for the bonus feature, but also for the regular spins. I can tell you this because I got two and three scattered gloves in a number of spins, but never won anything. I don’t know why this is, but it deprived me of a lot of money.

Feature Rounds:

Three or more scattered gloves in either direction are supposed to trigger a Home Run feature, in which letters H I T can appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. According to the game rules, scattered HIT grants a 1, 2, 3, or 4 base hit, where every runner scores a run. Each run should award a double bet prize, and one game in the Grand Slam Feature, which awards free games. During the Grand Slam, all winnings are five times bigger, and for every run you will get 5, 10, 25, or 100 the triggering bet.

All in all, just because of the extremely unfavorable scatter feature, which reduces your chances of winning any feature rounds, I wouldn’t really recommend this slot. It’s a pity really, because everything else in it seemed pretty promising.

- reviewed by www.latestcasinobonuses.com, last updated 2011-04-03.