Step over Rival and move over Playtech with a new boxing slots game surpassing Rival’s earlier release of a boxing slot from January of this year—Heavyweight Gold.This isn’t just some old and ordinary Joe Blow boxer either; it’s Rocky Balboa, the famed and fictitious boxer from the series of Rocky movies that was released in 1976. It’s a 5 reel 25 payliner where players get to train with the best boxing competitors of Rocky Balboa’s past.Fight against old known Rocky foes: Lang, Clubber, Drago and Creed, all of whom in the films were also known as Clubber, the Southside Slugger, the Siberian Bull and the Master of Disaster.The slots game can be played at any Playtech powered casino like bet365. Players will soon discover that Rocky is the scatter in his logo form and the wild in his fighter pose. As a wild, Rocky can punch out a maximum coin payout at 10,000 coins.Win up to 25 free spins with a 2x multiplier with 3 or more Rocky scatters and during the free spins games, start another free round of games which can continue indefinitely retriggering.Use what are typically known as the poker run letters, but in this case, the letters in this poker run are R-O-C-K-Y. Spell out Rocky’s name, spun in order, going left to right and win 5x the total bet.Finally, a knockout bonus round will begin when players spin a white boxing glove on reel 1 and a red punching glove on reel 5. Once the gloves are stationed on both reels, a 10 round match will start. Rocky wins in the end, although he can lose in between round one and ten. The Knockout bonus can’t be retriggered in the free spins game.A color card gamble can be played in the end with a large double up all the way to $5,000. The sound of boxing gloves pounding a speeding bag is what players will hear as they spin while other figures from the popular movie appear like Rocky’s boxing promoter, Tony Burton as Tony “Duke” Evers and Marie, Rocky’s love interest.
As for creativity, I’d have to say the letters making the word ROCKY was an interesting spin off the old poker run but the old video clips didn’t make this online slots game original in any sense of the word. Still, for those Rocky fans, winning the good fight for the gold is all tied up in the sentimentality of it, isn’t it?
20 May, 2010