Elvis The King Lives Pokie
Part of a series of Elvis-themed pokies, Elvis The King Lives from WMS Gaming is laid out across 11 reels and has 80 paylines running across them. But rather than having 11 reels all side by side across an enormous screen, there are 8 independent symbols on the left side and 3 big reels of 6 symbol positions each to the right. As if that’s not unique enough, we also have a free spins bonus round triggered in a number of different ways and a jukebox that pays out randomcoin awards and multipliers along the way.
It’s one of the more complicated casino pokie machines, but all of this will be forgiven by Elvis fans when they see lots of images of the man himself, along with a hound dog, some blue suede shoes and a teddy bear. Anyone seeing a pattern here?
Thankfully, the theme of this pokie is the younger Elvis, not the Vegas performer from his later years and so he’s happily strumming his guitar, doing a signature dance move or looking cool at the microphone in this colourful game. Playable for a low limit of 0.01 per spin, anyone activating just a few paylines won’t get all the potential wins, so most will choose to wager 0.80 per spin, while high rollers will be able to bet an impressive total of 200.00. It’s usually possible to play free Elvis The King Lives pokie games, which is ideal for players who just want to try it out before staking real money.
Playing Elvis The King Lives
Peeking out from behind the reels is an image of palm trees, a concert venue and searchlights piercing a starry sky. The control buttons are part of the jukebox, but it’s the reels and how they work that are the main point of interest. Reels 1 to 8 are in 2 blocks of 4 and each contains just a single symbol, while the big reels are numbers 9, 10 and 11. The effect of this set up is that it can be quite easy to get matching symbols on the first 8 positions, but increasingly difficult to land those all-important symbols on the big reels and get a winning combination.
Many wins will be created by the low value playing card symbols J, Q, K and A, and of course, Elvis will top the pay table and pay out the biggest rewards, with all wins in the normal run of play coming from matching symbols landing across the first 2 sections and at least 1 of the big reels.
Elvis The King Lives
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Bonus Features
The most valuable symbol is a picture of Elvis in a blue shirt against a backdrop of his name and this is also a wild, acting as other standard symbols to create extra winning lines.Players will see stacked wild symbols on reels 9 to 11, so it’s a little easier to line it up for a prize-winning spin. It won’t be able to substitute for the vinyl record however, as this classic image spins up some bonus games when it lands in the right places.
As if the reel layout wasn’t complicated enough, the bonus games are triggered in an equally unusual way. Landing any matching symbols on either reels 1 to 4, or reels 5 to 8, will launch the bonus spins, with 5 free games playing out. But they will also begin if the vinyl record symbol appears reels 9, 10 and 11, along with matching symbols on reels 1 to 4, to get an initial award of 100x the bet, followed by 20 free spins.
However the free games are triggered, players get to play a jukebox mini game beforehand. In this round, extra spins and bet multiplier payouts are won, depending on whether players land on Hound Dog, Blue Suede Shoes, Teddy Bear, or Big Hunk O Love.
The Verdict
Casino pokie machines based on famous celebrities are always going to attract attention, and they don’t get much more famous than Elvis Presley. It’s a fairly volatilepokie, with big wins possible, but at a lesser frequency, although once the free spins are triggered, players are guaranteed a bet multiplier win, even though winnings in the bonus games are not guaranteed.
Hopefully players won’t be all shook up by the Elvis The King Lives video pokies at their favourite online casinos.