Wild at Heart Slot Machine
Head to your favourite games arcade from the comfort of your own home and spin the reels on this classic fruit machine by Aristocrat. Wild at Heart is themed on the fruits and lucky sevens of classic one-armed bandits so this is a simple game at heart.
This is easy to play and features symbols that all players will be familiar with. Icons include traditional fruits, single double and triple bar signs, the game logo and those incredibly lucky number sevens. You can see how much you could win by checking out the pay table sitting above the reels. So grab your coin bucket and prepare to spin this fruity favourite.
Preparing to Spin the Fruits
There are only 3 reels in this game and the symbols are so large that only one can really fit fully on the screen at once. This gives a blocky feel to the graphics and adds to the attractive simplicity of the slot. Before you can start playing, you need to select your bet by clicking the plus and minus buttons to choose a ‘total bet’. This can be up to 12 million credits per spin.
You can select the ‘max bet’ button if you want to place the maximum bet easily without clicking the plus button, while there is also an ‘auto play’ feature allowing you to set up to 200 games playing automatically. While playing on a desktop it is also possible to use the space bar to activate the reels.
Millions of Credits up for Grabs
The pay table at the top of the screen reveals all your potential payouts, from the highest paying game logo to the lowest paying cherries. The biggest win you can pocket from this game is a massive 25,000,000 credits when you spin 3 game logos while playing max bet. The second highest payout is 2,400,000 credits if you spin 3 lucky sevens on max bet.
Other top payouts are up to 1,200,000 credits for 3 triple bar signs, up to 750,000 for 3 double bar signs, up to 300,000 credits for 3 cherries or 3 single bar signs, up to 150,000 for any 3 bar signs or any 2 cherries, and up to 60,000 credits for any one cherry symbol.
The wild symbol is the game logo, which can stand in for all the other symbols in the game to create more potential winning combinations. The wild also awards a tasty multiplier whenever it forms part of a winning line, with a 2x multiplier added to a win with one wild symbol and a 4x multiplier awarded when you hit two wilds to form your payout. Of course, then 3 game logos show up this means you have hit the base game jackpot!
Seeing Red over Free Spins
Wild at Heart features a special bonus feature called the Red Screen. This is triggered totally at random at the end of any game when playing for real money. The Red Screen awards a number of free spins which can be anything from 1 to 20. The best feature of this free spins round is that you are guaranteed a win from each spin. You can tell when the Red Screen feature is triggered because the reel turns red, surprisingly enough!
Heart of Vegas Vault
Because this game is part of the Heart of Vegas series, you could be lucky enough to hit a progressive jackpot while playing. The Heart of Vegas vault is constantly ticking over, increasing in value with every spin from paying players across the network of qualifying slot games.
If you move your cursor over the vault in the bottom left corner, it will say how long until the vault must be cracked – and how long you might have to wait for a share of the jackpot. Although the chances of a big win are slim, this could prove a life-changer for someone and the anticipation of cracking the vault might be enough to keep players at the reels.
Fruity Fun but Lacking Features
This is an easy game to play and attractive enough in its simplicity, so any classic fruit machine fans will enjoy the action. The basic, computer-game sound effects and colourful background give it a retro appeal, while the large potential payouts make this a decent game for both high and low rollers.
The wild symbols appear regularly for extra potential wins and the progressive jackpot is an added incentive, but apart from this the only special feature is the free spins round. Without more interesting action, we did not find this fruity offering wild enough at heart to keep us engaged.
