The Heat is On is a video slot which runs on Microgaming software. The slot features 5 reels and 45 paylines, and the game is inspired crime and crime fighters – policemen. Visually, the slot looks great and it is designed in a cartoon style. The reels are set on a city streets and the rush is on, you can join in on it by spinning the reels here for fun, or at any Microgaming Casino where you can spin the game for real.
How to Play The Heat is On Slot
These cartoony reels have their own way on how they can be played, and here’s a brief intro to it.
- Coin Size will help you regulate your betting range before you give the reels a twirl.
- Max Bet sets the maximum bet allowed with just one button click.
- Spin button will set the reels in motion once the bets are set.
- Autoplay is there for when you get tired with the incessant manual spins. It will set the reels in motion without any interruption for a chosen number of times.
Slot Features
This game has 3 sets of Wild symbols, and all of them can substitute for all the symbol in the game except for the Scatter and each other. Blond Cop Lady is one Wild symbol whereas the Brunette Cop Lady is the second one. They both can form winning combos on its own and when you land them in a win. In addition you can land one Blond Cop Wild and one Brunette Cop Wild on an active line and you will still get rewarded for it.
Free Spins
Bank is the Scatter symbol and if you land at least 3 of them anywhere on the adjacent reels you will trigger the Free Spins feature. Once triggered, you can get awarded with 5, 10 or 20 symbols, depending on the number of the triggering symbols.
In this feature you can win up to 80 Free Spins on a single spin, and the feature can be retriggered. With 2 Bank Scatter on reel 2 or on reel 3 will multiply the number of spins awarded by 2. With 2 Bank Scatters on reel 2 and 2 Scatters on reel 3 will multiply the number of spins awarded by 4.
Summary
The Heat is On slot looks pretty decent and the features to match, however, there is nothing outstanding here. The slot is of medium variance and the Wilds can get rewarding, and if you like simple slot games, then you can give this one a shot.
Here's another new game listed under Microgaming software, but I really doubt it's by them. The play screen doesn't resemble that of any MG's games, so my guess would be it's yet another 'leased' game. My first impression on The Heat Is On isn't that good at all, I must say, simply because the graphics doesn't seem attractive enough. It looks dated, like from some years back, except for the Lady Cop and the Lady Thief icons - now these two are looking hot! Hot enough to get the heat onto your butts, for playing the game too long, or hot enough to get the heat onto your face, for all those low payouts, hahaha. So, where did the heat go for you?
For a new game playing with 45 paylines, The Heat Is On doesn't provide you with many feature games, except for the Free Spins game. Very disappointing indeed. No Bonus game, no randomly activated special features either, so this game can become boring quite easily. Both the nicely presented Lady Cop and the Lady Thief are the Wild symbols in this game, each paying a very low 20x total bet for getting 5 of each, and paying 10x the total bet if mixed. Each Wild symbol substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter and the other Wild symbols. Hmm, for these 2 hot ladies, they certainly don't come hot enough with the cash, too bad.
The Bank is the Scatter symbol, paying a damn low 3x total bet for getting 7 of them, yes, 7, not the usual 5, with reels 2 and 3 having 2 stacked Scatter symbols each, whereas all the other reels have only 1 symbol. Getting 3, 4 or 5 Scatters on adjacent reels trigger 5, 10 or 20 free spins, but getting 2 Scatters on either reel 2 or reel 3 doubles the number of free spins, whilst getting both double Scatters multiply the free spins number by 4x, so up to a maximum of 80 free spins can be awarded at a time. Better still, more free spins can be retriggered too. Hmm, if this doesn't make you hot, I don't know what will. But please don't forget, all free spins are without any multiplier, so the heat may go off sooner than expected! Hahaha.
All the other symbols in the game are rather disappointing to look at. They don't look nice enough. But that's not all. They don't even pay good enough! The Gold Bars in the Suitcase pays 4.5x, the Helicopter pays 3.5x, the Police Car pays 2x, the Motorbike Rider pays 2x, the Dynamite also pays 2x, and the rest pay from 1.8x to 1x, all per total bet for getting 5 of each kind. The paytable? What paytable? Oops, sorry. The paytable is a blardy low one indeed!
For players who like their games to pay more frequently, then they will like this game. For players like me who prefer to get nice good big wins, then this game is as good as a dead one! The payouts in the base game and Free Spins games leave much to be desired. In fact, the heat went to my face instead, hahaha. I managed to get 3 Free Spins games in one session of play, which was quite good actually, but the payouts were 17x, 11x and 7x my bet amount. Argh! Those lovely ladies did appear on screen to create some nice exciting looking wins, but the cash awarded were far from being hot. They were simply just damn too little each time! For mere fun, I might play this The Heat Is On again. For serious play, no way!