Viper City Heist  (Bigwinboard.com)

Viper City Heist: Slot Overview

A lot of people, maybe most of us, they're happy working a regular job for 40 or 50 years, saving for retirement, having a laugh with family and friends on the weekends, taking the odd trip before clocking out to enjoy the golden years, fishing, or gardening, or catching up with the telly. Others, though, they'd prefer to risk it all on one big score, now, grab a boatload of cash, however possible, and make a name for themselves. If the city has to burn to the ground in the process, so be it. At least, there are people like this in movies or video games, and developer Play'n GO has tapped into this 'means justify the ends' ethos when it designed the online slot Viper City Heist.

Viper City, Vice City, dunno, the names sound vaguely similar on account of them both starting with the letter 'V', and further potential links to Grand Theft Auto are reinforced by the quality of artwork used for the symbols, and the general get it at all costs vibe. At a guess, this is a slot about robbing a casino, though the game and the accompanying docs provided few concrete clues about the heists' details. That's fine, willing gamblers can use their imaginations to fill in any gaps as they decide which, if any, of the main characters they most identify with or want to be.

The heisting occurs on a 5x3 reelset using a 20 payline system to calculate winning combinations. The game's maximum RTP is actually quite high in this day and age, at 96.65%, while the math model is medium-high volatile, and bets of 10 c to $/€100 may be placed.

J, Q, K, and A imprinted chips are Viper City Heist's low pay symbols, awarding 2 times the bet for 5-of-a-kind. Character symbols named Shadow, Cipher, Nitro, T-Bone, and Bullseye are the high pays, worth 6 to 20 times the bet for a 5-matching symbol combination. The Boss hits on all reels and is wild. Wilds replace any regular symbol and have the same value as Bullseye when making all wild wins.

Viper City Heist: Slot Features

Cracking open the vault is aided by bonus prize symbols, the Quick Hit, Heist Respins, and Vault Raid free spins, which have a win multiplier.

Bonus Prize Symbols

Two types of bonus prize symbols may land in the game. The Briefcase awards the 20x Minor, the 100x Major, or the 1,000x Grand prize. Money Bags are less exciting, awarding 0.5x to 15x the bet.

Quick Hit

Quick Hit can trigger on a non-winning spin in the base game or Vault Raid if there are 3 or less bonus prize symbols on the reels. When triggered, 1, 2, or 3 bonus prize symbols on the grid are awarded.

Heist Respins

Landing 4 bonus prize symbols in the base game (or the Vault Raid) awards 3 Heist Respins. The triggering bonus prize symbols, and any that land afterwards, stick to the reels for the entire session. Only bonus prize symbols may land, and newly landed ones reset the spin counter to 3. The feature comes to an end when respins run out or all board positions are filled.

Vault Raid

Hitting 2 Vault scatters on the middle row of the second and fourth reels triggers the Vault Raid feature. A Vault Wheel spins to determine the number of free spins from 6 to 20 and an initial multiplier of x2 to x5. Hitting 2 Vaults during the feature adds +2 free spins, and +1 is added to the multiplier. The multiplier applies to all wins, including bonus prize symbols, if Quick Hit or Heist Respins trigger during the round. If the multiplier reaches 10 (its maximum value), subsequent retriggers award +4 free spins up to a cap of 150.

Viper City Heist: Slot Verdict

While real-life crime blows, crime in movies and slots can be fun. There's something encouraging about the idea of a ragtag group of misfits cooking up an audacious plot to nab millions from the big bad bank, casino, or kingpin. It's hard to say there is much about Viper City Heist that is audacious, though. Some of the features are thoroughly unexciting, such as Heist Respins, which is a stock standard hold 'n win round which lands only lower value Money Bag bonus prize symbols or higher value Briefcase symbols if you're lucky. The Quick Hit teases in this regard as it will occasionally flick off a quick 1 to 3 prize symbol awards at times to make sure you're still watching.

Vault Raid is where these robbers want to be, though, because you get all the base game/respin stuff with the added bonus of a win multiplier. Even more so, since double Vault symbol hits not only trigger more free spins, they increase the win multiplier value. Presumably, free spins are the most favourable situation to be in to potentially hit the game's large 15,000x the bet max exposure, though the probability of that occurring isn't great, as it usually is in a Play'n GO piece.

Fit all the bits together, and Viper City Heist is a playful heist slot. The features are a little on the humdrum side, and Play'n GO max win potential is often known to be exaggerated, but the game has been presented quite well, so it may attract the attention of gamblers who want to pretend they are robbing some big, faceless, soulless corporate entity while having a punt.