USA Flip Slot Review

07/12/2022 | Categories: Play'n GO Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

After a small break, we are returning to looking at a Play’n GO slot. Why did we choose to come back to examine a product from this Swedish provider? Well, what raised our eyebrows about their latest release, USA Flip, is that it clearly attempts to cater to the US market, where Play’n GO has been continuously expanding lately, and it boasts a Near-Win Re-Spin feature that aims to build suspense. In truth, we never expect ground-breaking reel-spinners from Play’n GO, but they make decent enough games, and this one seems to have its fans, as it hit the top-ten standings in Canada and several European countries after its debut. It did the same in Japan and India. It materialized on casinos’ game pages on November 17th, 2022, and we’re providing our analysis of it below.

Theme & Design

Evel Knievel, real name Robert Craig Knievel is an American pop culture icon. He was a stunt performer that died in 2007 at the age of sixty-nine and was famous for attempting to make over seventy-five daring ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. His likely most renowned jump came in 1968 when Knievel spectacularly leaped over the fountains at Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas. Though, his longest successful jump came in 1975, when he cleared fourteen greyhound buses, landing with no sustained injuries.

Despite his name and astounding feats of courage, what most people remember about Evel Knievel is his white leather, blue-line suits. In 2017, Vogue reported that one of his one-piece star-spangled outfits fetched $108,000 at a Dallas auction, and others have gone for similar prices. Hence, it makes 100% that Play’n GO opted to put their motorcycle-jumping eagle character into a Knievel-like uniform. Did you know that the bald eagle has been the national bird of the US since 1782? That is why it often appears as a symbol of the country on various government institutions and documents.

The theme in this game is, as described, an Evel Knievel-inspired anthropomorphized eagle performing motorcycle stunts in front of a packed stadium. USA Flip celebrates specific parts of American culture while implementing vibrant visuals that emphasize the nation’s flag’s colors. These are primarily 2D images made to look 3D, thanks to slight animations and decent shading. There is not much else to say about the visual presentation of USA Flip, which is decent. The gameplay gets enhanced by a cliché rock soundtrack, and the button configuration is the usual Play’n GO one adapted to this slot’s motif, as is par the course from this provider. The spin functions are below the bottom right corner of the reel grid, while to the left of them are the coin, line, and value selectors.

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Specs & Gameplay

Play’n GO has set the variance of USA Flip at medium, which slightly took us by surprise. The RTP here is 94.3% by default, but it can go down to 84.2% and up to 96.2% at different operators. The game has twenty paylines, but you can pick how many you are willing to play per spin. The max exposure of USA Flip is x1,000, attainable, on average, on every one hundred millionth spin. The betting range of this 5×3 title moves from $0.1 on its lowest end, to $100, on its highest.

The low-paying tokens here are A, K, Q, and J royals, generating prizes of x20 for five-of-a-kind combinations. The premiums are a glove, a firecracker, a helmet, a burning wheel, and a motorcycle. These yield rewards of x40 to x250 when five matching instances of them stop in view of the same spin.

Note that only the highest line pays out prizes, and for USA Flip to produce wins, symbols must align left to right on adjacent reels.

The eagle character is the wild, substituting all pay tokens. But not the scatter. If he lands five times on the 5×3 grid on a reel rotation, he will generate an identical win to the five motorcycle symbols, x250. The scatter is a star over the American flag with the word bonus over it. It also pays x250 for five-of-a-kind combos.

Bonus Features

USA Flip delivers three bonus features. The first is the Free Spins round. You can trigger it if you hit three or more scatters anywhere on the 5×3 layout. It initially awards twelve on-the-house reel rotations. Yet, because this round can get re-activated, it can wind up producing up to one hundred and twenty on-the-house spins.

The mentioned Near-Win Re-Spin feature comes into play on a losing reel rotation when a stack of identical tokens (wilds included) hits on the first and second reels. In such an instance, the middle one will re-spin, and the others will get locked. Yes, you can gain entry in the Free Spins round through the Near-Win Re-Spin feature.

Lastly, we have the Walking Wild mode. What is this? After a re-spin gets activated, stacked wild symbols can show up on the middle reel. They appear as a full-body eagle that morphs into a walking wild, moving to his right spot after each re-spin until he makes it to the last reel. An extra re-spin can happen on all the reels when the wild stops at the end of the grid. In the Free Spins round, these wilds move to the left, and when they are active, no scatters can appear.

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