This month Realtime Gambling has produced two amazing new slots. One of them is dedicated to sports, while the other is drawn in an Irish setting. Though they might seem quite different, there is something in common between the two new games. It’s not only their beautiful graphics and fun animations. The games give a new and unexpected twist to the old-times favorite bonus rounds of free spins, which became an essential feature of most video slots.
The first game is called Hockey Hero and is doubtlessly inspired by the recent Canadian Olympics. All the fans of ice hockey will enjoy this 5 reel 25 payline slot machine. Considered the sport of the fearless, ice hockey is now available in the form of a video slot, offering an opportunity to risk a player’s money instead of his teeth. Some people consider hockey players quite wild, and in Hockey Hero the Player symbol is also a wild one, which will substitute any other for a payout multiplied by 2. The highest in the game fixed jackpot is triggered by the Rhino Mask symbol and equals 10,000 coins, but may be as high as 20,000 coins if the 5-symbol payline of Rhino Masks is boosted by the Player wild symbol. Plus, there is also a huge progressive jackpot, which may be randomly triggered at any spin, not depending on the symbols. But what is really new about this slot is its special free spins bonus round that includes a Win Win Feature. Triggered by 3 scatter Penalty Box symbols appearing anywhere on the screen, the 18 free spins are guaranteed to please even the most choosy gambler. The system here is much more interesting than the simple re-trigger feature of most other slots. Win Win Feature will come into play if the total amount of money won during the free spins does not exceed 10 times the player’s bet, which has triggered the free spins round. In this case the misfortunate player’s bet will be multiplied by 200, so one should look out for the Penalty Box symbol at all times. The only condition for the Win Win Feature to work is that all the paylines have to be active. While watching ice hockey there is nothing better than peanuts and beer, so these symbols also appear on the reels, as well as a puck, a pair of skates and other ice hockey paraphernalia.
The second new slot machine is called Lucky Last. The name comes from the special feature of the free spins bonus round in this Irish-themed slot. The free spins are triggered when the Gold Coin symbol appears both on the first and the fifth reels. Six of the seven free spins will award a player with tripled payouts of all the winning combinations, while the Lucky Last spin will give a 50/50 chance of re-triggering the bonus. Even if the free spins round is not re-triggered, the player still gets a doubled payout on the seventh free spin. Number 7 is considered lucky, that’s why it is also represented as 3 different symbols on the reels. It takes only two golden sevens to score a win, while the green and silver numbers will have to appear 3 times in a payline for a winning combination. With the Lucky Last online video slot the favorite Irish holiday of St’ Patrick’s Day will never end, as all the lucky symbols keep spinning on the reels. Among them are the horseshoes, the pots of gold and of course the merry red-bearded leprechauns, which award the highest in the game fixed jackpot of 5,000 coins. As with all the other winning combinations, the jackpot awarded by 5 leprechauns will be doubled in case the symbol of reel 1 or 5 is substituted with the wild Gold Coin, thus giving a lucky player 10,000 coins instead of the regular 5,000.
