Rock Vegas

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An Introduction to Rock Vegas

Pragmatic Play is a slot developer known for giving players a lot of different types of experiences. In their Rock Vegas online slot, they’ve taken this approach again to offer players something that’s a bit outside of the box. They’ve achieved this by largely centering the entire game around one particular bonus feature.

However, this feature has a tremendous amount of depth with multiple stages and lots of different ways to compound your wins.

What’s more is that it’s an easier feature to trigger than usual. With this type of gameplay style, players can expect some swings and quite a bit of volatility. However, that’s largely the point. The play style of this game is all about “going big or going home” in a serious way.

At the same time, the graphics are up there with the best that Pragmatic Play has to offer. A great-looking 3-D visual style is used, and it looks like something straight out of a top-tier computer-generated movie. The prehistoric animals on the reels in particular caught our eye the most when we started. However, the animated jungle background is really immersive as well. Overall, the presentation is really strong, and it works in a particularly cohesive way with the gameplay as a whole.

Betting and Layout

Something we can really appreciate is that they made the format easy to learn. It’s a pretty common one, so you don’t have to worry about learning a lot of new information about how to play the slot. Instead, you can pretty much just jump right in once you know how the features work. Here’s what you can expect:

• A total of five reels with three horizontal rows are used here. It’s the standard 15-spot grid that you’re probably familiar with.
• Players have 20 paylines to work with as well. This is a super solid layout that gives a lot of ways to get paid without it being so many that you can’t keep up with them.
• Note that you will not be able to adjust the number of lines. Additionally, all paylines give wins from the left toward the right only.
• It’s important to point out that the betting interface makes reference to coin values and coins per line. However, you can actually ignore that, which we’ll get more into below.
• Players can place wagers starting at the minimum of €0.20 per spin. The available range of bet sizes goes up to the €100 level per turn as well.

Other Information

Because of the way the gameplay centers around one main feature, the volatility is way above-average in this title. We’d put it at the upper end of what we call the medium-high range. Essentially, it’s close to how high non-progressives can go. Subsequently, the hit-rate is slightly below average. However, when you do hit wins, they’ll be larger on average.

We mentioned that you should ignore talk about coins being bet per line. That’s because Pragmatic Play only bases your wins on multiples of however much you’re betting as a whole. As a result, the sizes of your individual coins or amounts wagered per payline don’t actually matter. Instead, they’re really only there for the sake of reference.

Gameplay and Features

In the following, we’ll be breaking down how the Rock Vegas video slot’s game mechanics work. Most of this centers around the features that make up the Mega Hold and Spin bonus round. However, keep in mind that this feature hits a bit more often on average than you’d expect.

Bonus Meteor Symbols

The glowing meteor is the bonus symbol in this game. While appearing normally on the reels, it can appear in any position. Having it show up on all five reels makes it easier to trigger the bonus feature since you need at least three to start the bonus feature.

However, it’s important to note that this title also randomly adds them to your grid. This can happen after the reels come to a stop. Between having them on all reels and having extra ones added randomly, you can see how this feature is triggered more often than usual.

Triggering the Mega Hold and Win Feature

The number of scattered bonus symbols you use to start this feature determines the nature of the feature itself. However, to understand that, consider that these five meteors are the only symbols found in the bonus game:

• Red Meteor – 1x
• Pink Meteor – 0.6x
• Yellow Meteor – 0.4x
• Green Meteor – 0.2x
• Blue Meteor – 0.1x

These are the values of these five symbols, as multiples of your overall wager, in this feature. Subsequently, the number of bonus symbols used to start this feature up determines which of them appear on the reels.

• Five Bonus Symbols – Only red, pink and yellow
• Four Bonus Symbols – Only red, pink, yellow and green
• Three Bonus Symbols – All five meteor symbols appear

As you can see, this approach gives value in a way that’s not common in slots. This is one aspect of the game mechanics that makes the Rock Vegas online slot stand out.

How the Mega Hold and Spin Works

On the most basic level, you start with a giant empty 10-by-10 grid and three re-spins. The reels spin with the unlocked meteors and empty spaces. If you get any new meteors added to the board, your re-spins starts over at three. You’ll continue these re-spins until you run out of space on the board or run out of re-spins.

It’s possible to get clusters of 2×2 or 3×3 of the same color of meteor. When this happens, it transforms into a giant-sized meteor to take up that space. Subsequently, that giant meteor is given a multiplier value at random. The 2×2 can get from 5x up to 10x, and the 3×3 can earn multipliers ranging from 35x to a massive 500x. This applies to all of the symbols individually in that cluster.

Additionally, you can get random meteors on the screen after each re-spin. They can be added at random with a fire-like animation.

Key Collection Mini Game

A special key collection trail is shown above the reels with chests and a mystery multiplier at the end. When you collect a key on the board, it moves you one spot alone. You can earn instant payouts worth up to 500x, a re-trigger of the feature (ie: your re-spins reset back to three) or additional keys thanks to these chests.

Additionally, if you get to the mystery multiplier, a random multiplier from 2x to 100x is applied to your total win for the bonus round.

Once you get to the mystery multiplier, the key collection trail resets. That means you can nail several mystery multipliers in a row, and they will combine by adding together.

How to Win at Rock Vegas

With a volatility level that’s well above-average, you have to be ready for some long swings. It’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll run into quite a few serious swings if you play this game long enough. However, we have an easy way to mitigate that.

A simple betting adjustment of lowering your bet size by about 25 to 33 percent is the solution here. This effectively drops the volatility down to about an average level with respect to the amount you’re wagering to begin with. If you like the swings and volatility, you don’t have to switch however, since this is a completely optional adjustment.

Payout Structure for Rock Vegas

The caveman holding a club is somewhat special on the regular pay table. He awards the largest regular wins, but he also pays for just two of a kind. That’s not something you see with any of the other symbols. In any event, he pays out 37.5x for five of a kind combinations.

In the middle of the pays, you can pick up 25x for five of the raptor or five of the white tiger. Additionally, prizes of 12.5x can be yours if you line up five of the mammoth symbol on a payline. This is a lot like the middle of the pay table for Buffalo King Megaways where the pay table suddenly flattens out.

At the lower end of things, we have five royal rank symbols that are styled perfectly for this game. The yellow A and red K symbols will get you 6.25x when you line up five. However, 3.75x is your win for five of the green Q, blue J or purple 10 symbols.

Overview

The look and overall appeal of the Rock Vegas online slot gives an aesthetically pleasing feel with 3-D graphics that are definitely up there with some of the best that the online casino industry as a whole has to offer. If action is exactly what you’re after, then you’ll absolutely fall in love with the feature-based gameplay style that this slot offers with the Mega Hold and Spin feature. We think this will appeal to a lot players, and as a result, we think this online slot has an excellent position in Pragmatic Play’s portfolio as a whole.

The feature-centric style is utilized in a really intelligent way in this game, which we can’t say is something we see all that often, especially if things are centered around a single bonus round. As if that wasn’t enough, the sub-set of features from the bonus round includes several different extra ways to win like massive stacking multipliers.

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