The sky’s the limit as far as potential payouts are concerned in Hong Kong Tower, a highly volatile 5 reel, 99 payline video slot from ELK Studios. Highlights of this trip east include mystery transforming symbols as well as a spin the wheel bonus feature.
Design is obviously an important consideration when it comes to choosing a game and ELK Studios can usually be relied upon to create a good-looking game – that’s certainly the case in Hong Kong Tower. A light-filled, cityscape forms the backdrop to the reels which include a selection of fluorescent-style flower symbols. They stand out nicely against the skyscrapers.
Watch out for the Hong Kong Tower logo symbol which has some magical properties – when it lands, it can transform into any other symbol and provides a second opportunity to create a winning line or lines. This is called the Mystery feature.
Your likeliest route to a big win is via the Wheels of the Sky Bonus feature – to trigger this, you’ll need to land a blue Mystery Bonus symbol or 3, 4 or 5 red Mystery Bonus symbols. You’ll then move to the top of 3 sky scrapers, each of which contains a Wheel of Fortune-style spinner.
The wheel on the first tower spins to reveal a coin prize. If you land an arrow, you’ll progress to the next tower where even greater awards are on offer. The same process follows. The highest tower offers the biggest rewards of up to 500 times your total bet!
Keep spinning until the pointer lands in the same segment twice. You’ll be awarded 1 or 2 extra lives if you triggered the round with 4 or 5 red Mystery Bonus symbols or 2 extra lives with the blue Mystery Bonus symbol. Once you run out of lives, the feature ends – however, there’s up to 3,016 times your stake to be won in the feature with multiple picks.
There aren’t free spins on offer here – the only feature round is the Wheels of the Sky Bonus feature. Thankfully it’s a good one, offering plenty of potential. Hong Kong Tower is an extremely volatile video slot – the potential rewards can reach to the sky but expect plenty of lean spells on the way.
Hong Kong Tower doesn’t have the visual wow factor of some ELK Studios games (like Poltava Flames of War) but it’s still very easy on the eye. The gameplay is relatively simple but packs a mighty payout punch. Reach the summit of the Hong Kong Tower and you can expect plenty of spills and thrills on this virtual trip to one of the world’s most dynamic cities.
