Blood Suckers

About the slot machine Bloodsuckers

Interest in vampires has exploded in recent years, with these immortal bloodsuckers appearing in every second book, film, and TV series. People can't seem to get enough of them; even the undersigned has a passing acquaintance with the kinds of plotlines where pale, fang-nibbling fiends bite necks and then disappear into the sunless night. Despite the familiarity of all this, vampires keep trying. No one scene opened up the universe of possible stories with these creatures quite like the moment in Bram Stoker's Dracula when, via the strange circuitry of seduction and surrender that seems always to shape vampire encounters, Mina Harker lifts her womanly white neck to receive the bite from the very dead Count. No matter what kinds of tales vampires perform in, their basic equation—life now amplified, life now with a difference—tells us more about real life, how we try to animate it, how we try to sweeten the pot of it, and, above all, how we try to sustain it.

The setup is rather typical for a slot machine, but with a few tiny twists. It is a machine with five reels, three rows, and 25 paylines. You can choose how many of those 25 to actually bet on, but remember that the fewer you bet on, the less likely you are to win. There are four different levels of bets you can make, and you can tune the value of the coin from 10 cents to 50 dollars. That means the total bet you could swing for a single spin could range from 10 cents to – hold on to your hats now – 5,000 dollars!

Symbols and functions

The wild symbol in the game is a vampire bite. It can substitute for all other symbols, except for scatter symbols, in making winning combinations. In other words, this is a symbol that can help you form winning combinations with other symbols and also make those combinations better. Moreover, the wild symbol is itself a high-paying symbol. If you hit five of it in a row, you get 7,500 coins, which at the maximum coin value amounts to $375,000!

In Bloodsuckers, the scatter symbol represents a woman in a wedding dress with lots of blood. To win with scatters in this game, you need two or more, and they can be anywhere on the reels. However, if you get three or more scatters, you activate a Free Spins bonus in which the reels are spun for 10 rounds (the number of Free Spins varies by game). The cool thing about Free Spins in Bloodsuckers is that your winnings are tripled!

Finally, Bloodsuckers has a fun little bonus game that makes it somewhat more interesting for, you know, you who play this game. When you get three or more bonus symbols from the far left of any of your active paylines, you have activated the Bloodsuckers bonus level. In this mini-game, you enter the secret "dormitory" of vampires. Your task—briefly, and with some additional rules that I will share after this description—is to kill as many sleeping vampires as possible before you accidentally choose an empty chest.

Summary

Bloodsuckers is an excellent slot game, tailor-made for everyone who fancies the bloodsucker theme. Everything about it—the graphics, the sound, the atmosphere—shouts superior quality, and even the extras are entertaining.