Vegas Hits Pokie Machine
Although the name sounds like some kind of Mafia activity, Vegas Hits is actually a pokie from Bally Technologies that features the bright lights and exciting casinos of Las Vegas. With lots of images such as Roulette wheels, cards, chips and even a version the iconic Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas sign, it’s as glitzy as the town itself and comes complete with lots of bonus features that should make playing this game more rewarding than a night on the Strip.
Heading For Vegas
It’s certainly an attractive game, played against a backdrop of the city all lit up and complete with animated searchlights that illuminate the sky as the reels spin.
It’s a 5 reel game where the symbols are in 3 rows and there’s a fixed number of 40 paylines in play, making the minimum stake 0.40 per spin. The maximum is a hefty 400.00, so it’s a game for everyone except those with the lowest or highest of budgets.
While most pokies pay out when 3 or more matching symbols stop across a line running left to right, this game has several symbols that only need to stop on reels 1 and 2 to be worth a win, and of course the more reels they land on, the bigger the rewards.
Those symbols are all related to the theme of Las Vegas and its casinos, with none of the low-value playing card symbols that feature in so many other pokies. In rising order of value, Vegas Hits symbols in the base game are the dice, cherries, blue spades, red 7, playing cards, Roulette wheel, 3-reel pokie and the Vegas Hits logo in the style of the famous Vegas sign.
Vegas Hits
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Valuable Hits
While these pay out the regular wins, Vegas Hits has a number of bonus features and symbols to make it a distinct game, with players able to trigger an amazing collection of 16 different features including free spins with extra wilds and instant payouts.
In the normal run of play the bonus symbols that are most likely to be seen are the Poker chips which come in 4 colours and clearly display multiples of the bet amount to be awarded with just a single chip needed to win. The green chip is worth just 1x the stake, the red pays 5x, seeing the blue chip will be worth 10x and the yellow chip rewards players with an instant prize of 25x their bet.
Spinning For Winnings
There’s a couple of bonus wheels that spin up extra rewards, one of which is triggered by the green U-Spin symbol appearing on reels 2, 3 and 4 at once. Players simply spin the Money Wheel and collect the cash prize on the segment that stops against a pointer.
The blue U-Spin symbol takes players to a more interesting bonus wheel when landing on the middle 3 reels.
This wheel spins up any of 16 free spins games, each of which comes with its own unique attributes. Options include just a single spin, but it could be with reels 2, 3 and 4 completely wild, which guarantees at least 3 winning lines of 4 symbols each, or perhaps with reels 1, 3 and 5 wild, which will guarantee 3 lines of 3 as a minimum.
Other options include 2 spins where reels 2 and 4 are wild, while there’s several rounds that are made up of 3 spins. In these, players could see reel 1 fully wild, reels 1 and 5 wild, all dice symbols wild, all cherries wild, all 7’s wild, or spins where only the 4 most valuable symbols are on the reels.
For some reason, there’s no free games with 4 spins in play, but we have a further option of 5 spins with reel 5 wild on the first, reel 4 wild on the second and so on until reel 1 is wild on the last.
Players could even get 8 free spins, but just reels 4 and 5 are fully wild, so they will need to line up matching symbols on 1, 2 and 3 to complete longer lines, while the last option is to get a spin on the Money Wheel for a guaranteed payout.
The Verdict
Vegas Hits certainly hits the spot when it comes to extra rounds, with an unprecedented number of free games and instant payouts awarded when the bonus wheels spin. As some of these are certain to result in multiple wins, or instant rewards, these are valuable bonuses to trigger, but even in normal play this is a good-looking and potentially rewarding game.
Anyone who loves the sights, sounds and action of the Vegas casinos should give this pokie a try, and while the jackpots may not be massive, there’s still plenty to win.