Star Trek Red Alert Pokie
Exploring the galaxy for over 50 years, Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty have steered the USS Enterprise across 72 TV episodes, 9 movies, (not counting the Next Generation films), and now beamed themselves onto a series of online casino pokie machines from WMS Gaming. Filled with images and clips taken directly from the TV show, it’s definitely going to appeal to Trekkies, but should also attract gamblers who like multiple bonus rounds, as it’s packed with features.
There’s 5 reels and 25 paylines, while the symbols, all of which are related to Star Trek, are laid out over 3 rows. In normal play, wins are made up of 3 or more of the same type of symbol landing across any active payline, on adjacent reels starting from the left, although the bonus features award payouts in many varied ways.
Free Star Trek Red Alert video pokie games can be played, which is a good way to learn the varied ways that coins can be won, and once ready to play for real, there’s a bet range that runs from just 0.01. or 0.25 to activate all lines, through to a high limit of 105.00 per spin. A feature bet equal to 10x the amount staked per line will be needed to get all of the bonus rounds in play, but as these can be highly rewarding, it’s well worth the extra gamble.
Playing Star Trek Red Alert
The reels are surrounded by a silver frame that looks a little like the view screen on the bridge of the Enterprise, and symbols float against an animation of stars, giving the impression that we are flying through space at warp speed. It’s a very effective design and is enhanced even further by the sound effects, and some well-chosen symbols.
Laser rifles, tricorders and Dr McCoy’s medical scanner line up to create the smaller wins, while Klingons, a Klingon battle cruiser and the Star Trek badge fill the middle part of the pay table. At the top, we see McCoy, Spock and Kirk, which are actual images of the actors rather than just drawings of them.
Star Trek Red Alert
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Bonus Features
A nice image of the Enterprise zooming past the Star Trek logo acts as a wild symbol, replacing any other, with the exception of the Feature to help complete winlines, although it’s not worth anything on its own.
Several randomly-awarded features can be triggered on any winning spin, with an Enterprise Fly-By changing the symbols that made up the line into higher value character symbols, or Scotty Wilds filling 1 or 2 entire reels with extra wild symbols to create further winning combinations.
Other in-game bonuses include the Rock Wilds, where an alien creature drops random wilds around the reels, which will lead to further wins, and the Spock Multiplier, where our Vulcan friend multiplies the coins won by anything from just 3x to a substantial 10x.
Red Alert Feature Game
When the Feature scatter symbol stops in any 3 or more positions on the reels, players are taken to a bonus game screen which has different symbols in play during a free spins round. Each time a winning free spin occurs, a further screen is opened, where the Enterprise is in a face-off with a fleet of Klingon warships.
Firing at the enemy reveals a multiplier that will be applied to the win, but any non-winning free spin depletes the shields, and once this has happened 5 times, players need to select 1 of 2 communication channels to see what happens next. Either the reels keep spinning until the next win, the shields get fully recharged and the round begins again, or it all ends and players are returned to the main game.
If 4 or 5 of the Feature symbols triggered the round, there’s a scatter payout awarded before battle commences, plus each time the bonus game is triggered, players get a medal. Once enough medals have been collected, extra Star Trek pokie games can be unlocked, although players don’t need to get them all in one sitting, as the software remembers the account that was playing the game.
The Verdict
Star Trek has been a cultural phenomenon for 50 years now, and ever since the first pokie based on the show was released back in 2010, the games have repeated that success across the online casino world.
The Star Trek Red Alert video pokie is one of the most unique, feature-filled games around, and the combination of random in-game awards, a multi-level free spins game with multipliers, and the medals that eventually open up further pokies, should help this one to live long and prosper.