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WMS Gaming has captured the adrenaline rush fans feel when Captain Kirk makes that universal call to arms, “Battle stations!” From the design team behind the player favorite STAR TREK™ slots comes a whole new take on Community Gaming®— STAR TREK™ BATTLESTATIONS!
The game pits up to four players against the Klingons in a space battle between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire; complete with voice-overs from original show stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Players sit down at a four-machine bank with each slot using BOSE® 3SPACE® Surround Sound Gaming Chairs and dual 52-inch, high-definition LCD video monitors. The Surround Sound Gaming Chair allows players to hear, see and feel their gaming experience thanks to next-generation graphics and WMS’ innovative surround sound audio system that places players inside the game, and the classic show.
During base game play, ship construction symbols landing on the reels build a portion of a Federation ship that, when completed, increases the power of players’ fleets for greater potential wins in the bonus rounds. Every time a ship completes construction, Spock (reprised by Leonard Nimoy) tells players what kind of ship they won and what the bonus win multiplier each ship is worth – a Destroyer is worth 2x, a Heavy Cruiser 3X, a Space Station 5x, and a Battle Station worth 10x. Each player can accumulate up to five ships in their fleet to take into communal bonus battles.
Community bonus rounds come in two exciting variations: the Rogue Ship bonus and the Battle Bonus. Once a community bonus is triggered, guaranteed to go off at least every eight minutes, each player in the bank carries their fleet into an exciting bonus round. In the Battle Bonus, an armada of Klingon ships appears on the overhead screens. Players touch their base screen to pick from a grid of possible ships at which they want to shoot, and if they successfully blast the enemy ship out of the sky, they are awarded a random credit amount that is multiplied by the value of the Federation ship that fired the shot. But beware: the Klingons shoot back, and could destroy a ship in each player’s fleet. Ships surviving each bonus round are promoted in rank, making them worth higher multipliers in the next community bonus round that triggers.
Complementing the exciting communal slot experience are unique 80-line, dual reel set base games that offer both a Transporting wild feature and a free spin bonus with three or four Wild reels on each spin. The game is available in Wide Area Progressive (WAP) Jackpot or Standalone Jackpot versions. On the progressive version, the top line jackpot starts at $200,000, while the Standalone Jackpot varies between 50k and 80k credits.
STAR TREK™ BATTLESTATIONS slots are available in AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, ND, NM, NV, OR SD, WA WI (Other approvals still pending). For more information, visit WMS on Facebook and YouTube today at www.facebook.com/wmsslots and www.youtube.com/wmsslots.
Casual and obsessive Trekkies alike will love the new STAR TREK slot game from WMS. Whether you just watched the TV series occasionally or can identify STAR TREK episode numbers and recite the command structure of the Romulan military, STAR TREK™ BATTLESTATIONS! will bring the popular TV show to life at a casino near you.
