Crime Scene Pokie Machine
Fans of TV shows like CSI should enjoy spinning the reels of the Crime Scene video pokie from Net Ent, which is themed around items linked to some unknown dastardly deed. Guns and bloodied footprints suggest someone has come to a nasty end, but the details are never really revealed, so players will have to make do with claiming wins and triggering some unique bonus features rather than trying out their skills at as detectives on the trail of a murderer.
This 5 reel online pokie has 15 fixed paylines, across which, gamblers will want to land 3 or more of the same symbol type on connected reels running from the left side to claim a win. Sticky wild symbols can help them achieve this, while a set of fingerprints will unlock the main bonus feature, where there’s cash prizes or win multipliers hidden within a series on envelopes.
The low limit stake needed is 0.15 and this can be raised in increments to the maximum level of 150.00 per spin, although most online casinos offer free Crime Scene video pokies that players can practice on before staking real cash on the games.
Crime Scene
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Playing Crime Scene
Although the high-card symbols 10 through to A make an appearance here, as they do in so many other pokies, they have been re-imagined as chalk outlines, of the type used to mark out the position a corpse is found in. The 10 and J are the lowest-paying symbols, each returning 3, 10 or 30x the line bet when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a payline, while Q and K are both worth 4, 15 or 40x, andthe A is valued at 5, 20 or 50x.
The unique picture symbols start off with a gun and a silver briefcase, and landing either of these will see wins of 10, 40 or 200x the line bet paid out. Some forensic goggles are worth 20, 75 or 400x and the top wins come from the footprint, with gamblers winning back 30, 150 or an impressive 750x their line stake equivalent.
A police badge acts as the wild symbol in Crime Scene, not only substituting for others if it can then complete a winline, but also multiplying the base win by 3x. In addition to this, it’s a sticky wild, hanging around in the same position for between 1 and 5 more spins, so players could get even more winning combinations out of it than they first think, especially if more and more wilds are added to the mix. The badge will show how long it’s going to stay in place for, counting down with each successive spin.
Bonus Game
The fingerprints symbol will trigger a bonus round whenever it lands in any 3 or more spots at once, although like the wild, it doesn’t have any actual value of its own. Players are shown a computer screen with 30 evidence folders lined up in front of them, and by clicking on them in any order they reveal coin values that are added up until the round ends when 3 red crosses have been found in the folders.
But there’s further features within this mini game, as some folders remove red crosses to extend the game, others pay out multipliers and the Evidence symbol opens up a further screen where there’s another 4 envelopes to pick from. There’s 2x multipliers of the entire bonus game winnings so far hidden within one of these, plus further coin wins and another chance to click on more folders.
The more fingerprint symbols that trigger the round, the higher the potential payouts will be while the coin values will also increase at higher stakes, although the win to bet ratio remains the same.
The Verdict
Crime Scene is a nicely-designed online casino pokie that really comes to life when the sticky wilds and bonus games come into play. Both of these features can potentially lead to some big prizes, although while the wilds are not actually guaranteed to complete any winning lines, winning something in the bonus games is a sure thing and it’s the definite high point of this pokie.
Some could be put off by the fact that all lines are permanently active, so there’s no option to review it with just a tiny wager on a line or two, and frustratingly, Net Ent are behind the curve with their mobile-optimised games, with this being one of many that hasn’t been formatted for use on smartphones, so only those with very good eyesight are going to fully appreciate Crime Scene when they play it on a mobile.