Street Fighter Online Slots Review
Street Fighter is the latest licensed video slot machine to come from the Cryptologic stable. More of a Tekken man myself but I won’t let that get in the way as I bring you yet another thorough online slots review.
No random Marvel jackpots are available this time like with many of Cryptologic’s recently launched feature slots because Street Fighter is owned and licensed by Capcom, not Marvel.
At Street Fighter slots, bets per line range from £0.01 to £20.00, offering you a huge wagering range of as little as £0.01 per spin (1 winline) to a butt-clenchingly high £500.00 per spin (25 winlines)!! I would always advise you to play max winlines (25 here) so £0.25 is the smallest realistic cost per spin - cheaper than the fruit machines down your local boozer.
I don’t know who the £500.00 per spin capability is aimed at - perhaps the odd Premiership footballer or his stay at home, empty-headed, lads-mag eye-candy better half - but the Chipster advises you take your high-roller wad over to a game where you have some input and control like Blackjack.
Fruit machines or online slots are about fun and getting value for money from the entertainment on offer whilst at the same time dangling huge potential jackpots to spice it up a bit.
Sadly, I have to report that Street Fighter slots is pretty low on fun and entertainment and doesn’t seem to offer value for money at all. With only one bonus feature game that seems to take an age to trigger, Street Fighter slots just falls a bit flat on playability. Here’s how the slots bonus rolls anyway…
You choose which character you’d like to be at the start of your spin session: Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Chun Li or Guile (Ken?!? for Chrissakes?? What about Colin or Dave or Brian?). If your chosen fighter lands on reel two and the evil Bison lands on reel four on the same spin, the bonus feature game is triggered.
Your chosen character and Bison crash through their reels into the foreground and prepare to knock seven bags of shite out of each other. The three remaining reels spin in the background and if a fight symbol appears on your side (left), you get to give Bison some medicine!
Fight symbols are a fist (punch), a boot (kick), combined fist and boot (punch & kick) and a star (character special move). I’ve highlighted an example here for you…
In this instance, Guile gets to punch Bison but Bison is about to unleash an unholy can of merry whoopass with his special signature move! Each character has a health bar at the top of the screen, as per the original Street Fighter video game, that diminishes depending on the power of the attack sustained.
Cash prizes are awarded each time you land an attack on Bison and these are multiplied by your total bet. So in the example below, I won £625.00 for that attack (£25 prize x £25 total bet).
The Street Fighter bonus game ends when one of you is defeated.
It sounds exciting reading this through and I suppose the bonus is pretty sweet but it doesn’t last very long and you know that there’s nothing much worth going back to the reels for - apart from another loooooong wait to trigger the bonus feature again!
It’s a decent effort by Cryptologic and they should be praised for the innovative nature of Street Fighter slots but the Chipster thinks they concentrated too hard on the bonus game in isolation and neglected the rest.
My mate Lara Croft of Tomb Raider Slots fame would open so many cans of merry whoopass on these Street Fighter nancy’s, they’d drown in whoopass!
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