Hook’s Heroes Slot Review

Everybody is familiar with the story of Peter Pan and his nemesis Captain Hook, the rather sad old pirate who lost his hand to a crocodile. Well in Hook’s Heroes, we have a slightly different take on events, as this game features what appears to be a group of children presenting their own take on Hook’s rather tragic story.

Complete with sets that look like they have been taken from a school assembly, this is a very imaginative and creative way to present a pirate slot and it works superbly. Great credit should go to NetEnt for coming up with the idea for the slot as it gives the game a whole new twist.

The setting for the slot appears to be the sea with a boat on one side of the screen and an island situated on the other. The sea moves rather unconvincingly and you can see the hand holding the model of the ship. Again these are just small touches and together with the strings holding the sun and clouds in the sky, it gives the slot that school-produced feel and it is very cleverly done.

The game is a 5×3 reel set up and you can wage from £0.20 up to £200 per spin which makes Hook’s Heroes a game that any slots player can afford including lower stakes gamers and higher rollers. There are a total of 20 non-selectable lines in play on each spin and you can use the Coin Value and Bet Level selectors to increase or decrease the size and value of your total bet.

The rather cheery music that accompanies the slot is also very nicely judged as it takes a Caribbean calypso song and gives it a more western-style that is extremely catchy and not at all irritating. Indeed, it is one of the tunes that you will find yourself humming or whistling along to as you play the slot and that is always a good sign.

On the reels are a selection of symbols. The first set are the lower value symbols and these are the playing cards from jack through to the ace. These offer wins ranging from 5 coins up to 200 coins for landing between 3 and 5 on a line.

The higher value symbols are all the members of Hook’s crew as played by the children in the play and these characters all have their own characteristics and rather amusing look. There are five of these symbols in total and they offer pays from 20 coins up to 900 coins.

There are a number of other features on the slot including Wild and Scatter symbols and we shall explore what each of these symbols does below when we look at the key features of the slot.  You can play the Hook’s Heroes slot right now at the ever popular Leo Vegas Casino.

Hook’s Heroes Slot Key Features

The first key features of the Hook’s Heroes slot is the Wild Symbol which is the child playing Captain Hook, complete with crazy smile and hooked hand. The Wild serves no other purpose in the game other than substituting for all the higher and lower value symbols to create winning lines.

The other symbol on the reels to look out for is the Scatter symbol, which in this case is the crocodile which chomped off Hook’s hand. Three Scatters landed on the reels allows you to pick one of the three Free Spins games to play, land four and you can pick two games to play. Land five scatters and you can play through three Free Spins games. You can elect to play the same game twice or even three times if you manage to land enough scatters.

If you land multiple Free Spins games then you play through your first choice of game before then selecting your next game to play and so on until your Free Spins bonus has been used up.

Another great way to trigger free spins is with the Feature Spins bonus. This is triggered when you land just two scatters on the reels on a spin. When this occurs, these two symbols are held in position and the other reels are then respun once to see if you can land another scatter, or perhaps another cash win.

Whatever way you qualify for Free Spins, you get the same choice of Free Spins games to play through and these are:

• Fairy Feature – 7 Free Spins – In which you get between 2 and 5 overlay Wilds on each spin and when you get two Wilds, one will always be placed on one of the first three reels.
• Mermaid Feature – 10 Free Spins – All wins are subject to a 2x multiplier during the Mermaid feature unless the win contains a Wild symbol, in which case the multiplier is increased to 4x the standard win.
• Pirate Feature – 15 Free Spins – In this game there are no pay lines in play and instead, any wins are calculated on the number of symbols visible on the reels. There are no Wilds in play during this bonus game.

This is a lower to medium variance slot that offers a very enjoyable few spins. It doesn’t have a massive jackpot available at 900 coins for a single line win, but this can be increased by landing multiple paying lines on a spin.

How to win at the Hook’s Heroes slot

It’s fair to say that you are not going to become massively rich playing the base game in the Hook’s Heroes slot, but the good news is that as a lower to medium variance game, you do win enough money on these spins so that your bankroll should not take too much of a battering when playing.

The bigger value wins tend to come in the Free Spins bonus games and seeing as you have a choice of games to play here, then you need to pick wisely. The Fairy Feature and Pirate Feature both tend to offer wins of up to 45x your total bet, but with the Mermaid feature that increases to 180 times your stake thanks to the 4x multiplier available.

However, I would say that the payouts in the Mermaid feature are more volatile than in the other two games and I think for safer, smaller but more regular wins the Fairy Feature is the better option while the Mermaid and Pirate features can offer bigger wins, but perhaps are more likely to result in a smaller value win too.