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On January 24, 2016, I presented one of the latest creations of the game publishers NetEnt Intertainment under the title of Guns N' Roses (2016). A developer of online casino games that no longer has any real secrets with regard to the superior quality of its 3D creations that it has in large numbers in its game library. NetEnt is back with a vengeance this Friday, April 29, 2016 with a new three-dimensional slot machine with the title of Jimi Hendrix!
To give a little history about this man, Jimi Hendrix was born during the Second World War. More precisely on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The main activities of this icon during his time were motivated and influenced by the music genres psychedelic rock, blues rock and hard rock.
Jimi Hendrix was a singer, songwriter, musician and performer. Between 1966 and 1970 he founded the Anglo-American music group The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Despite his short musical career of only four years, it didn't take long for Jimi Hendrix to be recognised throughout his country as one of the greatest electric guitar players of his time.
In London, the capital of the United Kingdom, on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix lost his life in strange circumstances. Some say he died of asphyxiation in his sleep, while others focus more on the hypothesis of a homicide ordered by his manager Michael Jeffrey. To this day, no one is able to give a clear explanation as to why he died prematurely.
Jimi Hendrix is a NetEnt slot machine that consists of 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed paylines. If we make a quick comparison of its graphics, Jimi Hendrix is nothing like the ones that animate the online game Guns N' Roses.
The latter are very cartoonish with a background that illustrates in fine felt-tip pen what looks like a semi-desert place. It is very easy to notice the mountainous massifs clearly coming from another world by seeing their morphology. The sky is represented by alternating horizontal bands of different shades of blue.
Distant planets are also scattered throughout the sky. If we look down to the ground, we can see plants with strange characteristics. They are disturbing and let us open our minds to what look like giant poppies.
A battery is almost buried in this sandy soil. A bass drum and a ride cymbal can be seen on the left side. On the other side is planted in the ground an electric guitar. I must say that the atmosphere is quite strange and when the prize is won, the game will start to bloom with the appearance of poppy flowers on the sides of the slot machine that will match the game interface.
The representations, such as the various photographs of the face of the singer Jimi Hendrix, peace and love symbols, eyes with slackened pupils, electric guitars of different colours or even hearts, will be colonised on their periphery by buds which will instantly open to reveal coloured flower petals. A grandiose spectacle which, after their rapid passage, gives rise to quite substantial prize-giving.
Speaking of money in this Jimi Hendrix video slot, this one but the package with a whole truckload of features. The styles and ways of winning are multiple which is what makes this game of chance so rich.
In terms of features, players will be able to unlock Re-Spins, wild substitutions, wild transformations, a special Pick and Click feature that gives access to 3 free spins, coin wins with random multipliers from (8x to 30x) and a fixed jackpot worth €80,000!
It's safe to say that users of the Jimi Hendrix will not be bored anytime soon. That's my point of view at least. As I mentioned in this introduction to the Jimi Hendrix game rules, it has 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed lines.
With this configuration, this online slot offers a range of bets starting from €0.20 and going up to €200. A relatively wide range that will most likely invite all players to activate this new masterpiece produced by NetEnt.
I'm going to start this paytable with the feature called Purple Haze. To begin with, this feature is identifiable by the portrait of Jimi Hendrix holding a cream coloured electric guitar across his shoulder.
The Jimi Hendrix game offers up to 2 different ways to activate this feature. It may activate itself when its own symbol is resting on reel 1. When this happens, the 0, J, Q, K and A icons will turn into item wilds for one spin.
Once this game has ended and released or not released chips, the Purple Haze icon on the number 1 wheel will turn into a wild symbol to pass coins to players. The second way to play with the Purple Haze feature is from the Red Guitar Re-Spin title option, and it's a timely one as we'll be looking at it now.
The Red Guitar Re-Spin feature is symbolised by a cream coloured guitar with beautiful red, green and black patterns resting on a purple colour. A beautiful musical instrument by the way, which after 4 events on the slot reels will trigger the long awaited feature.
All the reels will re-spin to keep the famous guitar icons. At the end of this spin, if new guitars of the same physical appearance are found on the reels then a second Re-Spin will be activated and the new guitar icons will also remain frozen. The Red Guitar Re-Spin feature will end when there are no more cream guitars with nice patterns at the end of the rotation.
Another feature that is very popular with the public is present in the Jimi Hendrix gameplay. It is called Pick And Click. In other words, a feature that requires users to make selections with their mouse to advance through the game and collect coins at the same time.
To enter this special feature, it will be required to get on reels 3, 4 and 5 Jimi Hendrix dressed in white playing an electric guitar while standing in front. It is then that the function called Pick And Click will come to life to allow users to win 1 of 4 prizes on offer.
These are coin wins, and 3 forms of free spins including Crosstown Traffic, Purple Haze and Little Wing. The principle of how this feature works is quite simple to implement. The aim of the game is to click on a wall of sound consisting of speakers to reveal 4 symbol shapes. When players have collected 3 similar symbols referring to a prize, the prize will automatically be awarded.
Coin wins can be earned in the feature I have just summarised but it is quite possible to earn them from the main game. These coin prizes are represented by a gold coin with the face of Jimi Hendrix in profile. In the precise case where 3 icons are found on the reels of the video slot, a random win will be awarded with an equally random win multiplier between the values of X8 and X30!
A short while ago, I mentioned the term free spins. In the gameplay of the Jimi Hendrix 3D slot, there are 3 free spin modes.
These are CrossTown Traffic, Purple Haze and Little Wing. As the image on the right can illustrate, the elements of the slot's setting will change once the feature is activated. The ground will be replaced by a water feature where the famous poppies will continue to spring up from nowhere when a prize is won.
The sky and mountains will be represented by 2 large light brown smoke clouds. Even stranger, 2 electric guitars will be floating above the surface of the water and in a vertical position. A rather peculiar staging which I must say confused me at the time. I will now return to the different modes of the free games to describe in detail their own working principle.
Expandable wilds will join the party to spice things up and increase the potential win rate for this free session. On the first spin, the wild reel will appear on reel 5. On the second free spin on reels 4 and 5, on the third spin on reels 3 and 4, on the fourth spin on reels 2 and 3, on the fifth spin on reels 1 and 2 and finally on the last spin, the sixth spin on reel 1.
The final option for winning money with the Jimi Hendrix video slot is dedicated to wilds. Quite powerful wilds I must say, which can appear both in the main game and in the gameplay of many of the game's features.
The wild card is easily recognizable. It's the portrait of Jimi Hendrix that allows you to identify it among the other icons of the online slot. Being able to act several times during the end of a spin, wild cards will respond to favour the formation of paylines. To act in this sense, the wilds will hold a substitution power that in Jimi Hendrix game will allow them to substitute all the icons of the game except the scatters.
