Going Wild in Vegas

Review

The game's location is obvious, with neon signs and spotlights. This game has a loud visual presentation. Wild Fights turn the top symbols into a special Wild.

The bonus round has more Wild Fights, with only the best symbols. The Diamond symbol triggers the Hold & Win Respins round, which is about adding and upgrading frames for cash prizes. The 1,375x potential is a drawback, and the visuals might not suit everyone.

Features

The Strike Bet feature doubles the spin cost, increasing the multiplier from x2 to x5 when wilds are involved in a win, and the RTP increases from 96 to 96.4 %.

The premium animal symbols pay between 0.75 and 2 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol substitutes for any pay symbol. The Wild also pays 5x your stake for 5 of a kind, while the game logo scatter symbol pays 10x your stake for 5 anywhere in view.

The Wild Fight feature can trigger when the top-tier Vulture and/or the Rabbit gambler lands. This can turn all instances of either of the characters into the Wild, and this tends to trigger often.

You need at least 3 scatter symbols to trigger the Bonus Round, which awards 5 free spins. The bonus round plays out like the base game, except that only the 3 top-tier character symbols, the wild symbol, and the diamond symbol will appear per spin. This increases your chances for larger wins, Wild Fights, as well as Hold & Win Respins Feature triggers.

You need at least 8 Diamond and/or Wild symbols to trigger the Hold & Win Respins Feature, and you start with 3 respins on a new 5x4 grid. The triggering positions are already framed, and only diamonds and casino chip blanks will appear. Diamonds add frames to unframed positions, or they upgrade already existing frames.

The respins tally resets to 3 each time you land at least one diamond symbol, and the feature goes on until you run out of respins (or fill the grid with maxed out frames). If the latter happens, you win the Grand prize of 1,000x your stake. The frames/borders come with 3 levels, and each level come with the following prize ranges:

• Level 1 Frame/Border awards prizes between 0.1x and 2x your stake.
• Level 2 Frame/Border awards prizes between 0.2x and 3x your stake.
• Level 3 Frame/Border awards prizes between 2x and 100x your stake.

Experience

You get to see a few base game wins, before we trigger the free spins round. We landed a bunch of diamonds early on, and combined with the Wild Fight feature this secured us the Hold & Win Respins round.

Summary

The pace of the game, and the way the whole grid shakes and tilts whenever wilds are present, didn’t really make the best first impression. The visuals come across as too chaotic and “in your face”. If you can look past all this, however, there is a decent game underneath it all.

The ante bet seems like a good idea since wilds are in abundance via the Wild Fight feature, and this boosts wins involving wilds by x5 instead of x2. This also enhances the free spins round, since it comes with even more wilds and wild fights. The Respins round is still the main attraction, but you need plenty of level 3 frames to do any kind of damage. Speaking of, the 1,375x potential doesn’t exactly scream excitement, and it’s a deal-breaker for a medium to high volatility game.