It is approaching Christmas and online casino players will be rechecking the slots games portfolio at their favorite online casinos for Christmas themed titles. For the last three years the leading online casino software provider Realtime Gaming has been releasing titles in what can be best described as the Rudolph versus Santa series.

The first of the slot games is Rudolph’s Revenge and was released a little after the Christmas of 2008. Rudolph the Reindeer is tired of pulling Santa’s Sleigh. He has created havoc in North Pole. Santa is tied up, an elf is frozen in ice and a bomb is ticking away. A cigar smoking Rudolph has gone to play baseball. All this is depicted through the symbols on the reels. The high value card symbols appear as packed Christmas gifts. Rudolph is the wild symbol. It doubles payouts and when five appear in an active payline pays out the progressive jackpot. The scatter bomb symbol triggers the free spins feature. 7 free spins are awarded and the payouts are multiplied by two plus the number of wild Rudolph symbols on the reels.

For the Christmas of 2009 the second online slot game of this series was released by Realtime Gaming. It was titled Santa Strikes Back. In this slot game Santa gets even with Rudolph for all the trouble caused last year. The symbols on the reels depict a tied up Rudolph, an Elf performing voodoo on Rudolph and a package containing a dangerous liquid sent to Rudolph. The same high value card symbols gift-wrapped for Christmas are repeated. Santa with sword is the wild symbol and Santa with Rudolph is the scatter symbol. The progressive jackpot is paid when five Santa with sword symbols appear in an active payline. In the scatter symbol Santa and Rudolph have a brawl with one of them winning. Three or more victorious Santa symbols activate the Santa Strikes Back feature. Three or more victorious Rudolph symbols activate the Rudolph’s Revenge feature. Both offer seven free spins but with different conditions.

In December 2010 the third online slot game in this series was released at Realtime Gaming online casinos. It was titled Return of the Rudolph. The constant fighting between Santa and Rudolph has taken its toll. Santa’s home is vandalized, a toy teddy bear is damaged and the high value card symbols have their gift-wrapping torn off. A devilish Rudolph is the wild symbol. When it appears on reel 3 it becomes an expanding wild and triples payouts. The scatter symbol is a pair of reindeer thugs. They randomly activate one of three bonus rounds. In the Rudolph’s Rampage feature the player has up to eight picks to rescue three elves. The number of picks taken by the player decides the number of free spins from 5 to 50. The Santa Strikes Back feature and the Rudolph’s Revenge feature offer 7 free spins each as in Santa Strikes Back online slot. The progressive jackpot is won by five scatter Thugs symbols appearing on the reels.

These three Rudolph versus Santa slots games can be played at Realtime Gaming online casinos like Club World, Win Palace, Rushmore Casino and Slots Plus. Players at these casinos are wondering if a fourth game in this series will be launched this Christmas.