Outlawed Gunslinger Slot
It’s time to saddle up and mosey on over to the wild west in the Outlawed Gunslinger video slot from GamingSoft, that’s got a rugged sheriff and his beautiful sidekick blasting their way to high-value winning combinations, while bonuses such as free spins, wild symbol substitutions and a progressive jackpot round should help punters to claim some quick-draw prizes.
It’s got quite realistic images of the main characters including an Indian chief and there’s cactus plants, guns and cowboy boots among the themed symbols. Even as the game loads up, the taskbar fills with bullets, which is a little indication of the care with which this slot machine has been developed. The township can be seen behind the reels and even the payline indicators to each side are designed like sheriffs’ badges, while a wood-effect backing to the symbols completes the picture.
This 5-reel, 25-payline slot can be played for real cash from 0.25 a spin, an amount that can be raised to a high limit of 400.00. Free Outlawed Gunslinger video slots can be found if anyone wants some practice spins first, but there’s a high return to players and it’s a reliable, trusted game that can be accessed on desktop PC’s while also being mobile-optimised.
Shooting for Winnings
Although the ever-popular playing card symbols will make up the lower value win-lines, each has been designed to look like they are made in the same style as the sheriff badge, which helps them blend in with the wild western theme of this game. Players will need to see 3 of a kind stopping on adjacent reels across a payline running from the left side, and if the 10, J, or Q make up the combination, wins are equal to 5x, 15x, or 50x the stake per line.
The K and A symbols each pay out 10x, 25x and 75x, while unique images of the cactus and boots return 15x, 50x and 100x the line bet. The cowboy hat is valued at 20x, 60x and 200x, but the cast of this story return the best wins, with each of them presented on a Wanted poster as another nice touch. The sheriff pays the top standard symbol prizes of 50x, 200x, or 1,000x the line stake, but even this is shot down by the potential payouts from the wild symbol.
The badge is wild and when it makes up a winning combination, the rewards are 10x the line stake for seeing on just reels 1 and 2, then 50x, 250x and a huge 2,000x when it’s across 3, 4 and 5 reels respectively. If players have a gap in a sequence of any symbol above and the wild is in position to fill it, then they will get paid out as if they had a continuous run of the same symbol type, or it can also stretch a combination further across to the right for a correspondingly higher prize.
Free Spins Bonus Round
The belt and six-shooter is a scatter symbol and when it stop on 2 reels, tension builds, with the right-side reel getting shot up and shattered until it stops. If there’s a third scatter in view when it stops, players are awarded free spins.
Before they begin, there’s a choice of selecting the girl to become an expanding wild symbol during the round, or the gunslinger who will add random extra wilds to the reels. Nice animations of guns shooting at the game will be seen whenever either feature is awarded, although the average returns for each character are about the same.
The bonus spins can’t be retriggered, but although only 8 free games are played out, there should be a few nice wins to cash out along the way.
Jackpot Feature
All GamingSoft online casino slot machines share a progressive jackpot feature that has a small portion of every bet made across the range put aside for individual players to scoop. There are 4 levels to the jackpots and the current Mini, Minor, Major and Grand prize values are displayed above the reels, with the saloon doors opening up this round whenever they land in 3 places at once on the middle reels.
The saloon bar is filled with 6 pints of beer and players just click any of them to reveal which jackpot they have won a percentage of, but note that unless the maximum bet is being played, they only win part of any prize. At the lowest level, just 10% of a jackpot is theirs to claim and this rises with higher stakes.
The Verdict
Well-designed symbols and surroundings give the Outlaw Gunslinger video slot an attractive style that comes with some high-quality animations and the sound of guns going off to accompany the bells and whistles of the reels spinning.
Some generous bonus features, especially the choice of special free spins modes, should ensure that spinners who ride into this town are treated as welcome strangers, not outlaws.
