Hot Molten Money Slot
In the early days of the modern video slot many may have accused, perhaps with some reason, that some existing land based casino game developers were slow to react or to learn from the ideas provided by their online casino counterparts.
Wherever WMS were 10 years ago, in terms of their features and game theme design, no one can now deny that they are leaders in producing new interactive cabinets, fresh gameplay and creating exciting new themes for the modern live casino floor.
Hot Molten Money is a heavy industry based game, part of WMS’s ‘Reel Intensity’ series featuring their popular wager saver and bonus guarantee game features with a unique multiplier series forming the key addition to these slot titles.
If you are made of steel and eager to see what you can produce, this factory featured heavy machine will suit, harking back to the glory days of a 70’s industrial era Detroit and complete with calendar pinup style characters for both girls and boys to be entertained as the reels spin by! Detroit’s factories may now be in ruins, but the industrial spirit lives on in Hot Molten Money, thankfully without a Motown tune backing it.
Theme
Heavy industry is actually a pretty solid theme for a land based slot when you think about it – the average modern video slot is a 300lb+ machined case filled with electrical and mechanical goodies – what better game theme could there be. Whether you fancy yourself a gold smelter, steel magnate or oil refining baron, you will need to find a way to manage heavy equipment!
WMS have spent as much time looking at user experience with their cabinets as they have on themes and gameplay, people want to be comfortable and entertained when they are sat for long periods of time after all. The cabinet on this game features the integrated lighting now stock to almost all WMS games along with a premium Bose sound bar to broadcast the games music and variety of sound effects. It is an immersive experience and makes play that little bit more rewarding when waiting for the wins to land.
The low pay symbols on the game are the stock 9 through to Ace playing card symbols you would expect, nothing fancy here and whilst it may seem a little lazy for game designers to do this it does mean you don’t have to click the pay-table every five minutes to remember a symbols value. Instead you can focus on searching for the mining carts filled with molten ore, stacked gold bars and the games two human characters knowing that these are worth far more to you being the games expanding wilds which can also drop with a multiplier value embedded. These characters also provide a little eye candy with an oily jean clad hunk for the girls and a wrench wielding factory girl in a white T for the guys. Massive freshly minted gold coins form the games scatters and 3 or more left to right will grant you free spins.
Features
Of the two video slot titles in the series (the other being the femme fatale themed Code Name: Katarina) Molten Money stands slight apart as you play two 5x3 reel sets with 15 pay-lines rather than one for a total of 30 paying lines, these are playable for a minimum bet of just 1 credit per line. No heavy lifting required then to try out the action.
Whilst the price of getting into the industry may seem low, big investors receive greater rewards as the ‘Reel intensity’ multiplier which is applied to all wins over 400 credits has a larger base value when you wager higher, indicated by the reel intensity meter above the reels. For wins lower than 400 credits a random multiplier is applied which means this game every single win you get – will have a multiplier value of some level applied to it!
Hit a win of over 400 credits and you activate the wheel spins feature which is where the real money is at on this game, you will be awarded a random number of spins on a random number of reel sets – with the wheel spin providing a multiplier. Not only is this lucrative in itself - the spins are retriggerable so this is the time to get excited about molten gold filling your coffers!
Summary
Given the sheer amount of multipliers flying around the games base payouts are not the greatest. In fact this is one of the most volatile titles we have seen in a very long time. All being fair there is a large segment of gamers out there who enjoy that and if you are playing with a free chip – this is a game where any one bet can produce a massive payout. Maybe not as entertaining as the big movie themed slots but this has its own following nonetheless.
