Bruce Lee Dragon's Tale Pokies
Among the many online casino pokies featuring famous actors, Bruce Lee Dragon’s Tale is right up there with the most popular titles. The star of many TV shows and movies throughout the 1960’s and up until his death in 1973, Bruce Lee was, and remains, a legendary character who has inspired many people into martial arts.
The Bruce Lee Dragon’s Tale video pokie from WMS Gaming has several images of the man himself across the reels, along with weapons, the playing card symbols, and Chinese designs, but the unique feature of this game is the way that the reels are organised, as there’s a main set to the left side and 3 further sets to the right of the screen.
Each set has 5 reels and 20 paylines, or 80 lines if they are all added up, and each set spins independently of the others, but should a wild symbol or the bonus land on the big reels, they will move across to the other sets as well, making it easier to complete lines or trigger the main free spins round. It’s an interesting concept that takes a bit of getting used to, but can be quite useful in producing lots of prize-winning spins.
Playing Bruce Lee Dragon’s Tale
Landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on a payline running left to right will create a winning combination and as each set of reels is independent, players should find very frequent payouts occurring.
As there are 80 lines in play at all times, the low limit that can be staked on a spin is 0.40 and this could be enough to put some players off, while the maximum wager is 80.00. It’s a great-looking pokie, where the main reels are topped off by a pagoda roof and dragons stalk the corners, which is appropriate given the name of this particular game.
The playing card symbols that so many casino pokie machines use to create the lower value wins are all here, although each of the J, Q, K and A symbols have been written in an Oriental style, and further up the payscale are some nunchucks and a couple of Chinese letters or words. Bruce Lee needs to be on here somewhere, and he makes a dramatic appearance as the high paying symbols, kicking an opponent and glaring out from a symbol, while a temple is also worth a big win when it stops in the right places.
Bruce Lee Dragon's Tale
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Bonus Features
The Bruce Lee logo is wild, substituting for all except the black and white Yin Yang symbol to help complete winning lines. Whenever the wild and Yin Yang appear on the main set of reels, they will also transfer across to the corresponding positions on the other sets, potentially completing more winning lines along the way or adding enough Yin Yang symbols to a reel set to trigger the bonus games.
Players are awarded 10 free spins when 3 or more Yin Yangs appear in any positions of this pokie, but there are multipliers attached to any wins throughout the bonus games and the size of the multiplier depends on how many sets of reels triggered the games to start with.
If just a single set had enough to trigger the round, there’s a 3x multiplier attached to any wins, while having 2 sets of reels each getting 3 or more bonus symbols will give players a 6x multiplier. Any wins from a free spins game initiated by 3 sets of reels will be multiplied by 9x and if all 4 sets had enough bonus symbols on them, a 12x multiplier will be in effect. On top of this, if 4 or 5 Yin Yang symbols land, there’s an immediate real cash award of 1x or 2x the total bet paid out before the free spins commence.
The Verdict
This is a fascinating online pokie themed around an interesting character. It’s a shame that Bruce Lee only makes a couple of appearances on the reels, as most of the time the lower value symbols will much of them, but all is forgiven when the special reel layout leads to multiple winning combinations being formed.
It's the way that the wild and bonus symbols cross over from the main reels to the secondary sets that make the free Bruce Lee Dragon’s Tale video pokie so exciting. It’s pretty easy to have wilds and bonuses on these sets already, and then get the symbols from the main reels moving across to complete more lines or trigger the bonus games.
When the multipliers are awarded, players should be able to pick up big wins, although there’s only 10 spins in which to get them, so it’s not much time to land as many wins as possible.