Raid the Rails with NetEnt’s Wild Wild West Pokie

With most of today’s live and online pokies being rather monotonous in nature, it takes an added level of entertainment and feature innovation to grab and hold our attention. The software developers at NetEnt specialize in that, and it really shows in their new online pokies release, Wild Wild West: The Great Train Heist.

There’s nothing new about wild west theme in general, but putting players in the saddle alongside a group of old-west rough riders to rob locomotives, blow up safes and ride off int the sunset with guns blazing – there’s certainly nothing dull about that.

The animations and graphics are amazingly well palleted, and the fact that NetEnt chose to incorporate comic-book style imagery makes it all the more entertaining. Of course, there’s a great, thematic musical score to go along with it, and we haven’t even gotten to the new online pokies’ real features yet.

Wild Wild West: The Great Train Heist Features

NetNet’s new western-style poker machine is characterized by four outlaws. There are three male characters, including an older, weathered gunslinger, a young pugilistic rogue, and a thick-necked, knife-wielding brute. The fourth – and apparently the leader – is a female with dual pistols and a telling sneer. The game’s other symbols include Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades, a Gold Safe and the 7 Train.

Gold safes are a Scatter symbol of sorts, triggering the Wild Wild West pokies’ Pick and Click Bonus whenever three or more appear anywhere on the reels. Three safes will be spread across the screen. The player must pick one safe to blow, capturing the number of credits found within. All other safe’s then open to reveal the prizes that weren’t selected before returning to the base game.

The 7 Train icon is also a Scatter, and awards 10+ Free Spins whenever 3 or more land in any position on a single spin. Wild symbols only appear during free spins, but there’s various ways they can act. Once free spins are activated, the player will first spin the Wild Wheel to see which one of four types of wilds they’ll encounter during their free games.

Standard Wilds: These wilds are just standard wilds, taking the place of any other symbol to help create winning combinations.

2x Wilds: These wilds come with a 2x multiplier. If you strike this one on the wheel, every time a wild assists in a winning combination during free spins, the winnings will be doubled.

Expanding Wilds: These wilds have the ability to expand across the reels. Each time this wild appears during free spins, it will stretch to cover the entire surface of that reel, top to bottom. When 2 or more expanding wilds appear across the reels, the profit potential can increase tremendously.

Spreading Wilds: These wilds are also able to expand, but not in the same way traditional expanding wilds do. When a ‘spreading’ wild appears anywhere on the reels, it will spread in one random direction to replace an adjacent symbol, creating 2 wild spaces.

All in all, this 5 reel, 10 payline creation from NetEnt offers incredible graphic quality, and is one of the most genuinely entertaining new online pokies I’ve played in awhile. Get lucky enough, and you could even win a maximum of 50,000 coins in a single spin.