Easy Rider

Dang! How I would love to just ride on a superbike and ride into sunsets and sunrises. Better still with a darling on my back, on the pillion seat that is! On my back, gees, that would certainly be different and thrilling, wouldn't it? Hehehe. Ah well, that darling on her superbike can do very nicely, but she would probably outrun me first. Which darling on what superbike? That ssexy darling in 'Easy Rider' of course, but if you haven't played the game, you wouldn't have met her, right? But if you have, hmm, you probably don't wanna leave her the whole night! Hahaha.

Easy Rider, to me, is the most beautiful game in HPG's directory to this day. The graphics and animations are all very well presently, and it was a joy for me to play the game. But as they say, beauty is only skin-deep. It may seem like heaven-on-earth, but could actually be a devil in disguise! Whatever do I mean by this? Read on and find out!

Without going into too much details about the paytable and the win values of each symbol, lets just simply say that the game pays out lowly most of the time. At first glance, everything looks exciting and promising, then it sinks into you that the Wilds don't pay for themselves, they don't double the wins, and the worse part is, you may get 3 fully expanded wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4, but pays out not even 100x your total bet most of the time! Just have a good look at the screenshot I've posted up there, then you'll get a better understanding of what I'm saying. That was the best that I could get with those 3 expanded wilds. A few more other instances paid much less than that! Totally disappointing!

The free spins game could have been better designed too. Only 7 free spins are awarded for every activation with 3 scatter symbols (the HPG symbol), which I found insufficient to give out any decent payouts. No doubt that sweet young thing would expand and stick there each time she appears on a reel, but, she doesn't appear too often, very rarely on all three reels, and the high paying symbols hardly ever appear on reel 1 with those expanded wilds! So how to win big?! It was always those lowly symbols that would appear on reel 1 with the expanded wilds, and making my middle finger very active a lot of the times! Hahaha. Ah well, maybe just not my luck with her, who knows.

Okay, so what is the top thing that I dislike about Easy Rider? Hmm, definitely not the sweet young thing! But how she was brought into the whole thing, that bothered me. With just 7 free spins, with no win multiplier at all, I would expect at least one reel to have a fully expanded wild at every spin, either sticky on one reel, or moving from one reel to the next. That would have made the game so much more interesting, and with much better payouts too. Many 'hot' games have this moving or sticky wilds feature, and they do play much more interestingly than Easy Rider. This is one hot chic on a superbike, if you can catch her! Hahaha.