Hook's Heroes

Hook’s Heroes is one of the recently introduced games by NetEnt. My first impression was “here we go again with another slot with a friendly theme that fails to offer anything substantial”, but it didn’t take long however to get rid of my initial thoughts. The pirate theme might be all too familiar but the game actually has some nice features and offers plenty of variation throughout the game play.

It even gives you a taste of what it has to offer by just landing two scatters. We all know how frustrating it can be if you’re not able to get 3 scatters. Well, with Hook’s Heroes 2 scatters give you a single spin of one of the free spins features. The slot contains 5-reels, 3-rows and 20-paylines with the minimum bet set at just 20 cents per spin.

First time I tried this game was with free spins I got offered at several NetEnt casinos. No luck there though as I failed to experience most of the features. The number of free spins wasn’t large enough to jump to conclusions. It wasn’t until I tried Hook’s Heroes with my own money that it started showing that it can be a nice game.

The pirate theme is intriguing enough in addition to the 3 main features. These features are the Fairy Feature (2-5 wilds on random slot positions), Mermaid Feature (2x multiplier on wins and 4x if it contains a wild) and Pirate Feature (wins by number of symbols on the reels without having to land on a payline).

As I said above you can get a taste of these features by just getting 2 scatters in the base game. I managed to get a few 60x bet wins on this game that way. However, you have no choice over which feature gets picked as it gets chosen randomly.
To have a say in it you’ll need to land 3 scatters which I had happen tons of times.

Then you can pick the feature and each feature has a different number of spins. My best results were with the fairy feature where I managed to get a hit of around 150x bet with a betsize of 1 euro. Overall these features pay around 40-50x bet mostly.

At least that was when I played it, so quite generous for a NetEnt slot. Overall I had a good time so I will probably play this game again since I managed to get a profit of around 200 euros.

Hook’s Heroes is the newest release from Netent software. I was really curious about this game not only because I am a fan of Netent games, but also because I saw a teaser video for this game about a month ago and it seemed really interesting.

It has 5 reels, 20 paylines and a free spins bonus round. It has kind of pirate theme and in my opinion even though design is cartoonish, it looks really well. At first I was a little afraid because I didn't know what to expect, at least payout wise, since most of the latest Netent games have been a disappointment for me. As usually, when this game was released, I received free spins but most of them were empty or gave me small winnings.

The best part of this game is the features it has. Although there is only free spins bonus round, you can pick one of 3 features for it. There are 3 different features and all of them are a little different but they are meant for increasing your winnings. There's a pirate feature which calculates visible symbols, in other words, the symbols don't have to be next to each other and I find it very interesting. There's a mermaid feature that doubles a win and if there's a wild, 4 x multiplies it. And my favorite feature- fairy feature. It places from 2 to 5 wilds in random positions.

To trigger free spins you need to get 3 or more scatters. For that you will get 1 free spins pick, and there you can pick one of the three features, each feature has different amount of spins, for example, fairy feature has only 7 spins. For 4 scatters you'll get 2 free spin picks. Another thing I find really great is that whenever there are 2 scatters, you will get a respin with a randomly selected feature. To get to know this game better, I played it with minimum bets of 0.20€ for 500 spins. Within them I got 4 free spins rounds and one of them was with 4 scatters, so it meant I had 2 free spin picks. I had many big winnings, highest score was 60 x bet size winning on fairy feature, which is my favorite from them all. Also, there are wild feature that substitutes all symbols except scatter and it brought me a few big wins in successful combinations. After my playtime, my balance was up for few euros so it was better than I expected.

Overall I think Hooks Heroes is a good game, definitely didn't disappoint me. I love that the respins are easily to get and can bring high winnings. Also, for the first time playing this game for 500 spins and getting 60 x bet winnings is decent too. I think graphics are good and theme is really fun, and I think this game could be great for wagering as I said, I didn't loose a penny within 500 spins and that isn't bad. I give it 8/10.

For my part I have to say this is one of the games manufactured by "NetEnt" with whom I could connect more quickly; just starting to play “Hook's Heroes” I could get my first pair of "feature spins" even though no payout was generated through them, from then on I discovered other features and my first round of free spins arrived early enough to avoid let me start with the left foot, and I must say that this new game seems to be my kind of slot thereafter because my balance was never negative but on the contrary it continued to increasing until the end of this my first meeting with this hilarious 5 x 3 reels slot with 20 paylines. I think here "big wins" are not really huge but they happen frequently, some of them occur during the base game but chances increase during rounds of free games.

In this game, once we obtain 3 scatters in any position on the reels, we are immediately taken to a screen where we can choose between 3 different features, each with a different number of free spins as well:

- Pirate Feature: 15 free spins. Here combinations of 3 or more of a kind are paid even when symbols are scattered anywhere on the grid, it is not necessary that they are aligned on the same active payline.
- Mermaid Feature: 10 free spins. The payouts for the successful combinations are multiplied by x2, and if it is a wild symbol involved in the formation, then they are multiplied by x4.
- Fairy Feature:7 free spins. Here the fairy spreads between 2 and 5 wilds on all reels.

All they are excellent features, but I think my favorite one is Pirate Feature primarily by the number of turns.

When instead of 3 we get only two scatters, one of the three features is randomly activated and just for a single spin, I take this as a kind of consolation prize and it is welcome. Personally, Hook's Heroes has pleased me a lot, is cheerful, dynamic and I do not remember having lengthy losing streaks, and I ended up with some profits, I think I'm going to keep playing this video slot more often.

Hook's Heroes is right now the latest game which came from Netent software provider. It has 20 paylines and the minimum bet is set to 0.20€.

The game offer three different kind of free spin features. This are: fairy feature, mermaid and pirate feature. I like that the game based on your select which feature you want to play. You just need to select the best one and hoping for good results. Paytable at this game is different about scatters, when you received 2 of them anywhere on the reels, the Hook's Heroes awards you with 1 free feature spin and that feature spin is randomly chosen. When I played it and received this 2 scatters the feature which I received many times didn't pay nothing at all.

From different casinos I received free spins on this game, once I got free spin feature in the first 10 spins and I selected fairy feature. I got around 6€ on this feature. I played even the others two, but the results were similar at all 3 feature. I think this game could not offer big winnings. Winning like x100 or x200 bet size I think is rarely. Before I played it I expected more from this game, when I saw some promotion videos about it. But now when I played it, I was disappointed like as at some other games which came from Netent like Dazzle me or Neon Stax.

I think I won't play this game in the future, because I like to play slots where the winning potential is high, huge and this game does not have this. Maybe it could be better for wagering, if you had a couple of euros to wager but I don't think I will play it even for that. For me there are much better and amazing video slots like this one.

For me this game has bad, poor paytable. I expected more from it.

Finally it has arrived, the Hooks Heroes from famous Netent software, well let's hope this one wont be another disappointment as for the latest games from this software. Must say I am bit disappointed in them because me as a player would like to see more high paying variance games then the newest ones, which are all low variance paying slot games.

Hooks Heroes has Pirate theme and it has cartoonish design, which I prefer, it has 5 reels with 20 pay lines, so the minimum bet takes from 0.20 cents, yet another chipper game for low rollers as I am. It's a really fresh new game so I couldn't say I played it a lot, but from 100 spins I think I know what is going on and what has to offer, so results so far a far from good, so my conclusion is this is another game with low variance payout.

I like the cartoonish symbols but as for any player looking forward is the free spins feature. The boy or the tiny Pirate with the Crocodile mask is the scatter symbol, so getting 2 of them will award the player with 1 free re spin. The free spins feature is triggering 3 of the scatters maybe more, but so far didn't manage to get them. So while the free spins feature is triggered then the player is offered to choose from 3 different free spins games.T hey are as follows Fairy Feature, Mermaid Feature and Pirate Feature.

Every type of free spins feature is different, in the first feature the Fairy free spins, the player will get from 2 - 5 wilds and when triggered 2 of them will take place in the 3 first reels. The second free spins feature the Mermaid one, the free spins winnings are multiplied X 2 but getting wild on the reels the multiplier goes up to X 4 your bet. And the last free spins feature is the Pirate one, a bit confusing must say, well the point is when getting 4 of a kind or same symbols anywhere on the reels it will count or pay you as you have 4 same symbols on a pay line. So far I like this game, but I have played only offered as a free spins, still didn't give it a try with my own money, but will so, although I am convinced that this slot is low to medium variance paying game, good luck!