New from IGT and due to hit the casinos on 27th February comes Western Belles, a homage to the iconic American pin-up art of Gil Evgren. Evgren had a fascination with leggy cowgirls, bless him, and that means we now get to appreciate said leggy cowgirls from a point of view of their cultural and historical significance as they populate the reels of Western Belles, or at least that’s what we’re telling the wife.While visually, Western Belles is quite literally a work of art – a tribute to the wonderful and saucy glamour art of the forties and fifties – the soundtrack is also a joy, and references practically every Wild West motif in the history of cinema, managing to fuse the sinister orchestration of Ennio Morricone with the high camp of Carry on Cowboy. Meanwhile, as the reels spin, whips crack, horses whinny, six-guns are cocked and a honky tonk piano flourish accompanies each win. It’s a wonderful medley of every beloved cowboy cliché going.Wicky-wicky wild Wild West! That’s all very well, you ornery critter, I hear you say, but what about the gameplay? Is it good? Damn tootin’, it’s good! The West, they say, was pretty wild, and Western Belles is stacked with wilds – literally! You can choose to enable the Wild Reel feature and gain a stacked wild reel on every spin. And with a generous number of single wilds symbols scattered around too, this machine pays out pretty frequently, with five-of-a-kinds and big wins coming thick and fast. Big wins trigger 3D animation; a leggy cowgirl riding a wooden horse leaps across the screen in an explosion of stars. And you’ll be pleased to know that there’s more animation and even more cowgirls during the Free Spins Bonus, which is triggered when you get three bonus symbols anywhere on the centre three reels (reels 2, 3, and 4). The Free Spins Bonus awards five free spins, but it can retrigger and it offers richer Stacked Wilds feature than the base game reels.
5 reels/40 lines
92.85% to 96.33%
1p, 2p, 3p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 30p, 50p, 100p (£1), 200p (£2), 300p (£3), 500p (£5), 1000p (£10)
1000p (£10)
40 lines
(cost to cover x line bet) = 200 coins x 1000p (£10) = £2000
£250,000
• Richer Stacked Wilds feature in the Bonus • If the Wild Reel feature is enabled, player gets 2 Wild Reels per free spin • Trigger the Free Spins Bonus by getting 3 Bonus symbols on reels 2, 3, and 4 • Start with 5 free spins • Retrigger the Free Spins Bonus by getting 3 Bonus symbols on reels 2, 3 ,and 4 • All symbols on a Wild Reel are Wild, except the Bonus symbols which can land on top of a Wild Reel
Medium-Low (casual-balanced): Frequent pays and moderately higher payout amounts than casual games.
Auto spin is available in approved jurisdictions
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