“I’m Spartacus! No I’m Spartacus!” We all know the quote, but not many of us know about the real life of Spartacus, the legendary Thracian gladiator immortalised on film, TV and in books - and now in a slots game by WMS.

Playing Spartacus will be unfamiliar to slots players who’ve never encountered the Colossal Reels concept before. Basically, you play the two sets of reels simultaneously, one on a classic 5x5 layout, the other a 5x12 grid. Both sets of reels feature a monster 100 paylines - spin the reels and aim for winning combinations across the entire screen.

You can play from a minimum of 20 paylines all the way to 100, in increments of 20 paylines at a time. Once you’ve chosen the number of paylines, you can then set your stakes per 2 lines, from as little as 0.01 coins all the way up to 5.0 coins, giving you a minimum bet per 2 lines of 0.50 coins, all the way up to 250 coins when playing the maximum 100 lines.

There’s an astonishing amount of flexibility in the staking options because they’re presented in increments of 0.01 coins, so you can tinker around endlessly setting your line bets. It’s incredibly easy to set your bet levels using the menu bar and then simply press spin - or let the autoplay function do the work for you.

So what is the Colossal Reels feature? WMS has used this feature in a few of its slots and it really adds an extra dimension to the gameplay, as symbols and features transfer from the main reel set to the Colossal Reels. During bonus gameplay, they’ll even transform and expand so that one wild on the main reel becomes multiple wilds on the Colossal version.