Buckshot Wilds – Power of Love Overview
NetEnt already has 2 amazing Western themed slots, namely Dead or Alive and Dead or Alive 2, which are very hard to surpass. But let’s see if they managed to do so with their latest release Buckshot Wilds.
Buckshot Wilds comes with a pretty basic Western theme. With guns, sheriff’s and all sorts of bandits. Where the reels are set against something that looks like the Grand Canyon.
The game comes with 5 reels that are 4 symbols high during the base game. Giving you 20 lines. But this can be increased with special features.
Besides standard paying symbols you will also find sheriff stars as wild symbols and scatter symbols can also appear on all reels.
Buckshot Wilds comes with a very low maximum payout of only 859 times your bet. And is a medium to high volatile slot game.
Features
Wild symbols and Expanding Wilds
During each spin, wild symbols can randomly be placed onto the reels.
Wild symbols will also act as walking wilds, shifting down one spot on the reels after each spin, until they move of the reels.
When a wild symbol lands on top of a scatter symbol, the wild will become an expanding wild. Expanding in all directections.
Expanding Reels
At random the reels might expand to become 8 symbols high. This will also increase the number of paylines from 20 to 48.
After the spin, the reels are reset back to their normal height.
Free Spins Feature
3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols will award 6, 10 and 15 free spins respectively.
During free spins the reels will become 8 symbols high during each spin.
On the first spin between 1 and 3 wild symbols are randomly added to the reels. After this, 1 random wild symbol is added during each spin.
Each scatter symbol appearing during free spins will add 1 more free spin.
Bonus Bet and Bonus Buy
You have an option, for double your bet, to activate a bonus bet. This will give guaranteed wilds during each spin and also increase the chance to trigger free spins.
For 100 and 125 times your bet, you are also able to buy free spins feature.
Verdict
So, does Buckshot Wilds come close to Dead or Alive 1 and 2? No, not at all!
It’s not because this is a bad game, not at all. I think the features are a lot of fun. Even free spins are great.
The theme, although very basic, is fine.
So why am I not that enthusiastic about Buckshot Wilds? The maximum payout! It’s way too low. Because of this the game never gets exciting.
I’m not sure why they didn’t increase that number? It seems that lately NetEnt is becoming more and more a hit or miss provider.
If you want to check out Buckshot Wilds for yourself, visit any trusted NetEnt casino, or play the demo below.
