Jet Strike Pokie
Pokie developer Aristocrat are aiming to be top guns with this fighter-inspired game that can be found at casinos across their native Australia and beyond.
It’s a 5-reel, 5-payline game that comes with some bonus features designed to take your breath away, such as respins, free games and a 3-level progressive jackpot, along with some impressive animations, vibrant symbols and high volatility winning spins.
Hopefully, players won’t strike out as they spin these reels, which are housed in the Helix range of cabinets, which are simple and easy to use, with big screens for more detail.
Playing Jet Strike
Because there are only 5 paylines, players will find that winning spins don’t come as frequently as they would in a pokie with 20 or more lines, but when they manage to land 3 or more matching symbols across any of them, on consecutive reels running from the left side, the resulting payouts will be correspondingly larger.
Like just about every other pokie from Aristocrat, the smaller wins will come from the playing card icons, 9, 10, J, Q, K and A, but there are several unique picture symbols to bring in the bigger prizes, including a baseball cap, airspeed indicator, the silhouette of a girl watching the planes, and a jet fighter badge.
Jet Strike
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Bonus Features
Along with the unusual number of paylines comes a couple of unusual features, with the one players are most likely to see being the respins that occur after each and every winning line of 3 or 4 symbols. If 3 symbols created a win, then reels 4 and 5 will spin once more, potentially creating a longer, more valuable line, and if 4 symbols made up the win, just reel 5 will repsin.
The face of a pilot is a wild symbol, so he will act as any other if it’s possible to complete a winning line and each time he does this, not only do players get a win and a respin, but they also see 5 free spins commence. If more than a single winning line was created by the pilot symbol, more spins are awarded, while making them even more interesting are a couple of extra features in play throughout the round.
If the fighter symbol appears in the free games, missiles get fired at each one and a bonus repeat win is paid out, whether it had been a winning spin or not. More pilots appearing in the free games adds even more spins to the total, along with higher repeat win values, so even though just 5 spins are initially awarded, this can extend to a considerable number with ease.
There’s also the chance to scoop a small progressive jackpot when the silhouette symbol appears. Planes fly from the bottom of the screen in celebration, as players are awarded either the Minor, Major or Grand prizes. These are not linked jackpots however, so anyone hoping to retire rich from playing Jet Strike is going to be disappointed, but with the Grand being worth several thousand Dollars, it’s not a bad win at all.
The Verdict
There are surprisingly few pokies themed around military aircraft, so Jet Strike should find a niche pretty much all to itself. Like all Aristocrat games, it has some top-quality graphics, with realistic animations of the planes flying around the screen, while the missiles, explosions and head up displays add lots of visual firepower to the reels.
The respins bonus can be quite valuable, especially as it occurs after each winning spin, and while it won’t always see a line being extended across further reels, a free spin is a free spin, and these will occasionally turn a modest win into a much more substantial one.
Talking of free spins, the main bonus round will also see the potential for some big rewards, with increasing repeat win amounts with each re-trigger of the games, and while the progressive jackpots are not massive, they can be won at random any time the jackpot symbol appears, with no input needed from players at all.
Anyone who likes to modern theme in a modern game should lock on to Jet Strike at casinos worldwide.