The 2018 World Cup in Russia was good for a lot of football pokies. iSoftBet arrived early in April 2018 with Hot Shots. You need something like a smaller game provider without a budget for the image rights of top football players or expensive marketing campaigns.
Hot Shots is perhaps not the most spectacular pokie launched around the football world cup, but one of the best-paying. This iSoftBet game pays out 97.15 per cent of the stake. That is, even for an online pokie, a particularly high payout percentage.
Hot Shots is a pokie with a cheerful design. The delight must come from the 20 free spins with triple wins that you can unlock, Expanded Wild symbols and payouts up to $ 12,500 per winning combination.
How Does Hot Shots Work?
You do not play with paylines, but with the 243-ways-to-win mechanism. That means that at least three symbols on the first three reels will produce a prize. The exact position on the reel does not matter. You bet a minimum of 25 credits per spin for all those beautiful items.
You can increase the number of credits by a factor of up to five. You can also play with the value of credit: a minimum of $ 0.01 each and a maximum of $ 5. That gives betting opportunities starting from $ 0.25 per spin and a maximum of $ 125 per spin.
The best paying symbol is the Russian bear, which yields up to 500 credits per combination. Other "pictures" are a Brazilian feline, the Spanish bull, the English bulldog and the French rooster.
Payouts in the basic game are quite low. The Wild symbol does not change that. It has no multiplier; however, it can expand in all directions.
Bonus Spins
The Hot Shots symbol is the bonus symbol. This symbol spins on every reel. The more Wild symbols you spin, the more bonus spins you can play. Depending on the number of bonus symbols you get 10, 15 or 20 bonus spins.
During the bonus spins, all winnings are paid out by a factor of 3. That means that the Russian bear does not earn 500 to 2,500 credits per combination, but 1,500 to 7,500 credits.
The Wild symbol can unfold in all directions in the bonus game: to the left, right, up and down. As a result, in the bonus game, you can sometimes grab multiple Wild symbols and therefore, several winning combinations at the same time.
What Does CasinoFisher Think of Hot Shots?
The strongest point of this pokie is the payout percentage of 97.15 per cent. That is very high for an online pokie. CasinoFisher can hardly find another one with such a high payout percentage.
Still, Hot Shots doesn't really stand out. The graphics are quite good, but CasinoFisher is not impressed a lot.
Winning significant amounts is pretty tough on Hot Shots. The pokie behaves a bit like a high variance one, but the real hits are missing. In the basic game, there are a lot of combinations of three pieces. They do not produce a (referee) whistle.
It is an excellent place to play your bonus. Save loyalty points or play a tournament. Furthermore, every thrill or fun factor is missing.
Three stars out of five.
