If you are a fan of the old Marvel comic book heroes, or you enjoyed its film adaptations, you will love Cryptologic’s "Blade" themed progressive jackpot slot. Will you become a vampire hunter?

As you probably know, Blade is a saga about a vampire hunter, whose mother was bitten while he was in the womb. Blade became immune to the vampire bite got all of a vampire's powers of strength, speed and virtual immortality. In the film adaptation the character was played by Wesley Snipes.

With such a theme, the symbols of this 5-reel, 9-payline slot not surprisingly include all kinds of creepiness associated with vampire hunting, including crosses, gravestones, spinning blades, steel spikes for staking vampires through the heart, automatic weapons filled with silver bullets and, a more traditional weapon - garlic.

"Blade" himself is the Wild symbol and substitutes for all other symbols apart from the scattered Blade logo. Five blade symbols pay a maximum prize of 8000 coins, whereas 4 pay 1000, 3 pay 150 and 2 pay 10 coins. If you get vampires on reels 1 and 5 with a blade symbol on reel 3, the re-spin bonus round is triggered, and you automatically win 5 free spins. During the re-spin bonus round, the blade symbol expands to cover the whole of reel 3. Therefore, the reel is effectively wild, so your chance of getting winning combos is much higher than usual. The other reels spin whilst reel 3 is held. During this round, the vampire symbol also turns into a wild blade symbol, again greatly multiplying your chances of hitting it big.

The silver blade logo is the scatter symbol and all scatter wins are multiplied by the total credits staked. The scatter bonus pays out when 2 or more blade logos appear anywhere on the reels, and returns your bet when 2 logos are appear, pays 5 times your bet for 3 logos, 20 times your bet for 4 logos and even 50 times your total bet when 5 blade logos appear.

The highest possible jackpot is 8,000 coins, which at maximum bet is $40,000. But that's not all, because this game has three progressive jackpots running on it all the time. They start at $50 for the Hero Jackpot, $500 for the Super Hero jackpot and $5000 for the Marvel Hero jackpot. The progressive jackpots are shared amongst all the slots in the Marvel Series, including Blade, Daredevil, Elektra, Ghostrider, Iron Man, The Punisher, Thor, SilverSurfer, The Hulk and X-Men. All the jackpots are triggered at random, so they can be won by any player at any time, regardless of bet size or coin value. The smaller jackpots are won several times per day. The average payout for each jackpot is around $100 for the Hero Jackpot, $1000 for the Super Hero jackpot and around $10,000 for the Marvel Hero jackpot.

Although the graphics are not very advanced and there are not so many special features, knowing one of those fantastic random jackpots could be yours at any time, makes the game worth playing.