Robo Jack Pokies
Robo Jack is a futuristic looking online pokie from Microgaming that comes complete with a couple of equally advanced bonus features designed to keep players coming back to the 5 reels and the colourful symbols that decorate them.
It also comes with the 243 Ways to Win system that replaces conventional paylines and instead sees winning combinations formed whenever 3 or more of the same symbol land on adjacent reels, which is proving to be a popular format that tends to lead to more frequent, although often smaller, wins.
With a jackpot of 90,000 coins however, it’s not all about smaller payouts and there’s plenty more prizes to spin up in this mechanical-themed marvel.
Playing Robo Jack
The theme of robots and sci-fi are everywhere in this game, from the industrial looking surroundings to the reels down to the symbols, all of which look as if they could make up parts of a robot. Animations are also quite impressive, with symbols all moving around a little when they become part of a winning combination and certain robots doing a little dance, although the soundtrack is the usual annoying stuff and not very sci-fi at all.
But never mind, at least that part can be muted. Below the main part of the game is the set of control buttons and players can start to spin the reels from as little as 0.30, with all 243 Ways to Win permanently activated. All that’s then needed is for them to adjust the bet size if required, with coins valued from just 0.01 up to 1.00 and up to 10 coins accepted for a maximum of 300.00 per spin.
The Autoplay button gives players a few customisation options, such as the number of spins to play out automatically and win or loss limits.
Robo Jack
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The View Pays button takes players to a paytable that shows each symbol and how many coins will be won when they line up favourably. The lower value J, Q, K and A symbols are all there, with higher payouts won by landing the images of a green atom, gold box that could be a battery, and a treasure chest full of shiny gold coins. The highest value regular symbol though is Robo Jack himself, a cute droid who also flies around the screen occasionally to launch bonus games.
Robonuses
The bonus rounds are quite something in this pokie, but first there’s a wild symbol that not only creates extra winning lines when it substitutes for other symbols, but also pays out some of the biggest wins of the game when making up lines on its own.
The $ sign, which is attached to some kind of machine, is a scatter symbol and it’s the key to unlocking the bonus games when at least 3 land at once, in any positions.
Players are transported to a part of the robot factory, or spaceship, or whatever it is, where 5 different free spins games are locked away. Robo Jack will fly across the screen, opening 1 of 5 sealed containers to reveal a robot and a game which players can either accept or reject, although they will then have to accept the second option given to them.
Options are from 12 up to 60 free spins, with Robo Jack acting as an extra wild throughout them, 12 - 40 spins with a multiplier of up to 10x paid out when the scatter symbol appears, between 4 and 20 spins with a random reel fully wild throughout, 10 to 65 spins with 2 scatters adding 8 more each time, or 10 to 50 free spins with all wins tripled in value.
Even at the lower numbers of spins these are fairly generous bonus features, and with players able to decide whether they want to accept the first choice or not, it’s a potentially rewarding round to trigger.
The Verdict
This pokie has lots of style across the reels and surrounding them. It looks like the designers were influenced by the Death Star or the ship from Aliens, so it all looks pretty good.
Neat animations, the way the playing card symbols are designed to fit in with the theme and the 243 Ways to Win system are added attractions, but of course the star of this particular show is the free spins round.
The downside of this is that because the free spins can be so rewarding, they can be difficult to trigger, but they can be well worth the wait.