Bet365 Vegas Review – Copy Cats

Everybody has heard the phrase ‘Copycat’ and now NetEnt have decided to take the phrase and give it a little feline-inspired twist. In their new Copy Cats slot, your furry friends have a rather unusual ability which can turn all other examples of their kind on the reels into a copy of themselves and in doing so, give you a better chance of landing a much bigger base game win than you would ordinarily have hit. You can play this fantastic new game at Bet365 Vegas right now.

Personally speaking, I am more of a dog person than a cat person, but I will make an exception for these critters. The setting of the slot is your typical suburban neighbourhood where you would likely find cats such as these roaming around the streets at night, trying to persuade an extra dinner or six from their unaware adopted owners. The slot is a 5×3 reel game that has a total of 25 paylines in play on every spin. You can play from just £0.25 per spin or ramp up the cost of a spin to £125 per spin if you are a higher roller. It is played to a rather funky jazz-style soundtrack which really does have to tapping your foot along as you play.

As with most NetEnt slots, you can wager a different number of coins per payline on each spin by increasing the Level meter from Level 1 to Level 10, with each level adding another coin of the same value to the bet. There is also a handy Autoplay feature if you want to spin the reels while you do something else and I really like how the slot is given added life by the cats having moving facial features as they sit on the reels. Another nice touch which brings home to you the fact that they are getting a little impatient with you for not spinning a bit more quickly!

Key Features

There are a number of different value symbols on the reels, starting with the lowest value Paw Print symbols, of which there are four and these offer prizes from 5 coins up to 25 coins depending on how many you land on a payline. There are three medium value symbols on the reels in the shape of the fish skeleton, a bottle of milk and a wind up toy mouse. These offer payouts from 10 coins up to 75 coins.

There are also three cats on the reels as standard symbols, the blue, purple and red cats offer payouts of between 15 coins and 200 coins if you can land five on a payline. These wins may seem small but these cats also come with an additional bonus feature attached and that is they are all stacked on the first reel. Furthermore, if you can land a stack of a single cat on the first reel during a spin, then it will trigger the Copy Cat feature which will turn all other cats landed on the reels on that spin into the same colour cat. In this way, you can land not only better value wins on a payline, but trigger multiple payline wins, which is where the better values wins in this slot come from.

Alongside the Copycat bonus feature is the Golden Cat Wild which can substitute for all the other symbols on the reels. What is great about this Wild is that it too is stacked on the first reel and if you land it stacked, it will turn all other cat symbols on the reels Wild, thus giving you a far greater chance of a bigger value win than even the standard CopyCat wild being triggered.

The second bonus of the slot is the Free Spins feature which is triggered when you land three of the Cats Bell bonus symbols on the first, third and fifth reels on a single spin. When you land this you receive an initial 10 free spins but you can retrigger the bonus during the round to give you a further 10 free spins. One of the best aspects about this feature, and what makes it so good for better value wins, is that all the cat symbols on the first reel will be Wild and this means if you trigger the Copy Cat feature on a free spin, then it will automatically turn all the other cats into Wild symbols too.

This is a hugely enjoyable medium to low variance slot which offers regular wins of mixed values and the chance of some really big payouts if you can land a screen full of CopyCat Wilds during the free spins bonus game.

How to win at the Copy Cats slot

The key to unlocking the bigger wins on the Copy Cats slot is to firstly play at a Level and bet size that will allow you to play for a decent length of time. Secondly, when you do get to trigger those bigger wins, you need to know when to walk away from the slot to preserve your profit, rather than gambling your win away immediately by trying to hit another bigger value win (which isn’t likely given the variance levels of the slot).

The base game feature to target is of course the Copy Cats feature although this sometimes is a little hit and miss and it can be somewhat difficult to trigger on a regular basis. The Wild symbol is handy for picking up a few extra ‘pocket money’ bonus wins, but in reality if you want to hit the bigger value wins in the base game, hitting that Golden Cat Wild symbol stacked on the first reel is the best option for that.

The Free Spins bonus however offers the greatest chance of a bigger value win simply because all the cat symbols stacked on that first reel become Wild symbols. That means Any Copy Cat feature trigger during free spins will turn all other Cat symbols Wild and this is where you will find most of the bigger value wins. The jackpot on this game isn’t huge at 200x your stake, but won across multiple paylines, that win can amount into a much larger sum.