Jack Hammer 2 Pokie
Fans of the original Jack Hammer from Net Ent will be celebrating the arrival of a sequel game, where our brave comic-book hero is up against the evil Don Crabby and his goons. The Jack Hammer 2: Fishy Business video pokie has the same 5-reels but now comes with an amazing 99 paylines for even more winning chances, while bonuses like free spins, random wilds, multipliers and symbols that stick around when they make up a winline should guarantee it matches the success of the first game.
This whole online casino game is designed to look like it has popped out of the pages of an old comic and the theme is typical of the genre. There’s a nice introductory video that plays as it’s loading that sets the scene and players are treated to symbol positions that look like the frames of a comic, while a picture of the city and a bridge takes players to the docks where Don Crabby is about his dastardly deeds.
With 99 lines in play, it’s not possible to spin the reels for just a tiny stake, so Net Ent have provided free Jack Hammer 2: Fishy Business video pokies for those who want to test it out first. The minimum stake has been set at 0.50 per spin and high rollers can go all the way up to 250.00 a go. Winning lines are created in the usual way, with 3 or more matching symbols needed across a line, on sequential reels running from the left side.
Jack Hammer 2
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Playing Jack Hammer 2: Fishy Business
A packed payout table lists all the bonus features along with details about what each symbol is worth. All are related to the theme and all drawn in a nice vintage comic-strip style. The microphone is the least valuable, and then we have a gun in a violin case, some wooden barrels, a speedboat and a view of the docks filling out the lower end of the payscale.
Higher up, there’s the various characters that populate the city, starting with the goons and rising in value with the lobster-handed Don Crabby, the beautiful Pearl and top of the table is Jack Hammer who turns up in a couple of different poses but is worth the same with each.
There’s also a wild symbol that will help to complete lines when it’s in the right places by substituting for all except the free spins icon.
Sticky Wins
Any time players get a winning combination, the symbols that made it up will stay locked in place while all other positions spin again. This can create new winlines, or add more of the same symbol to the mix for a larger payout, which in turn repeats the process. This can go on and on, potentially until one type of symbol fills all 15 spots on the reels for some huge wins.
Free Spins Bonus Round
An electric eel is a free spins symbol which can land in any places to trigger the bonus games. Quite what the eel has to do with the story is anyone’s guess, but it looks suitably menacing and we’re sure Don Crabby has some evil plans for it. Whatever its purpose, seeing 5 free spin symbols at once will start 10 bonus games, while any 6 of them will result in 13 extra spins and 7 eels triggers 16 games. If between 8 and 15 land at once, the top award of 20 free spins is won, but however many play out, all winnings are doubled in value throughout them.
Net Ent like to make their bonus games something special and to this end they have added random wilds to the free spins. Don Crabbys’ claw and Jack Hammers fist battle it out on the reels to ensure that players get the maximum winning potential out of this round, and the Sticky Win feature is still in effect, so players could get many more free games and coin awards than it first appears.
The Verdict
This pokie is sure to repeat the success of the original and perhaps attract new fans to the old-style heroics of Jack Hammer. There’s a little bit of backstory to the goings-on across the reels, but it’s not covered in detail and players can make up their own minds about what’s happening, or simply forget about it and enjoy the images on display.
Anyone, whether they like comics or not, is going to enjoy the bonus features and while the free spins game is pretty good, what we really like about this game are the Sticky Wins, which are in effect another free spins round but where higher potential wins can be had.