Wanted DOA Slot

The Wild West lifestyle and all its trappings have always been a favourite subject for films, books and in the last twenty five years, video games. We've seen classics like Gunsmoke by Konami, where you had to walk a small cowboy up the screen shooting enemies with three different fire buttons, or Blood Bros, a game where you'd move a cross-hair around the screen to dispatch your enemies. With the affinity between cowboys and video games now firmly set in stone it won't come as any surprise to you that we're seeing slot games based on cowboy themes and one such online slot game is the fantastic Wanted DOA.

Wanted DOA is presented in a nine pay line format that plays across five reels. The game actually pays both ways on the pay-lines (from right to left as well as left to right) so this, in effect, doubles the amount of ways you can win on the machine. With some combinations paying with as little as two symbols in conjunction you've even got the novel situation where you can achieve two wins on a single pay-line. The game allows you to stake as little as 5p per line to a whopping £50 per line for high rolling slot cowboys, giving a max bet of £450 per spin. The max reward available from this slot is a saloon shaking £250,000.

Graphically the game is very well put together. The shadowy figure in the background could almost be 'The Man with No Name' from 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' as the birds in this dynamic backdrop circle around his dark shape.

The bonus game on Wanted DOA is a fun homage to some of the early Cowboy video games that first appeared in the early eighties. Activate the game by stopping in three or more bonus symbols on any pay-line and you'll go through to a one on one gun fight with your nemesis, Evil Bill. When you get through to this screen you'll get a number of bullets to shoot at Bill based on the number of symbols used to activate this sub game. The cursor flashes over Bill, touching on different body parts, stop the cursor and shoot at him to gain a multiplier on your original stake. This bonus game isn't the most complex in the world, but it sure is fun when you hit poor old Bill straight in the crotch!

Wanted DOA lacks the big bonus games, wilds and scatters many slot players love. However, the game is good enough on the reels alone to make it a favourite with many experienced slot cowboys. The double payout system of paying both ways on this slot is not to be sniffed at, as the machine can pay enough ways to make you leap on that stallion, and ride your winnings off into the sunset.