The Hamsteads Slots - Online Slot Machine Review

The Hamsteads Slots

The hamstead Slots is a pretty decent slots machine. Players shouldn't be looking forward to being blown away by any new or innovative features. Veteran players will be very familiar with the features being offered on this machine. The first thing I noticed about this machine were the symbols. I liked the fact that I never got any of them confused with each other and I never had any trouble identifying the important symbols immediately. This really helped the game run smoothly and made for a better playing experience. The symbols included regular playing card symbols, nine through ace, and various symbols containing pictures of the hamster family. The betting options were decent on this machine but nothing special. I liked the fact that there were nine different pay lines that players could bet on. This really increased players winning percentages on every spin thusly making the game more exciting and engaging. The minimum bet that players could make to spin the reels was a dime. This is decent but I really would have liked it more if they had made the minimum a penny. The difference between a penny and a dime, aggregated over hundreds of spins, can really add up.

The Hamsteads Slots Wild Symbol

The wild symbol on The Hamsteads Slots was a picture of the "dado" or father hamster. This symbol appeared on every reel and could be used to substitute for any symbol in the game other than the scatter symbol. I thought this was a decent wild symbol. I really liked the fact that it appeared on every reel but I really wish they would have added a prize multiplier to the reels. This would have given more importance to the symbol and made it worth rooting for.

The Hamsteads Slots Scatter Symbol And Bonus Feature

The scatter symbol for The Hamsteads Slots was used to award a prize and also to activate the bonus game. The scatter symbol was a picture of a toaster. I'm not really sure how this related to the theme in any way but at least it stood out from the rest of the symbols. Basically, this symbol appeared on every reel and awarded a prize whenever two or more appeared anywhere on the screen together. The bonus game was activated whenever three or more symbols appeared together. During the bonus game there were nine boxes set up. You simply clicked on them and hoped that there were three of the same symbols revealed. If this happened you were awarded the stated prize and if not you were awarded double the initial bet. This game was repeated three to five times depending on how many scatter symbols you had used to acquire it. I thought this was kind of a lame bonus game because you really had no control over the prize and the boxes you picked really didn't matter.

Overall, I thought this was a solid slots machine but nothing great. I thought they definitely could have taken the extra step with some of their bonus features and this could have made the game much better. I also thought they could have made small improvements to the betting options that could have paid huge dividends as far as features were concerned.