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The Great Stick-Up Review

The Great Stick-Up is supposedly playing out in a small midwest town in the 1960s version of the USA, and there is a hint of steampunk to the shady-looking characters on the 5x3 grid. They didn’t really have tattoos and ear/noserings like this in the 60’s, at least as far as we can gather, and it would certainly stick out in a redneck okie town like this. The visual presentation is well-done though, but the jazzy soundtrack seems a bit misplaced.

The sharply dressed dude with a pipe is supposedly the detective that’s chasing this pack of criminals, and he appears as the wild symbol in the game. The base game is surprisingly stripped from features, so you’re basically grinding along until the bonus round triggers. The sticky mystery symbol upgrade system is an okay extra, but it’s not really pulse-raising most of the time. Overall, the game kinda falls flat compared to what you expect at first glance.

The Great Stick-Up Slot - Reels Screen

The Great Stick-Up Slot Features

The symbols pay between 1 and 50 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, with the 4 gangsters as the top-tier symbols with a female lead. The wild symbol can land on all 5 reels, and it steps in for regular pay symbols to help complete wins. The wild is also the most valuable symbol in the game, awarding 75x your stake for 5 on a payline.

The Bonus Round triggers when you land 3, 4 or 5 red siren scatters anywhere in view, and this pays 2x, 10x or 100x your stake up front. You’ll then be awarded 7 free spins, and the feature comes with sticky mystery symbols that remain in place for the duration of the bonus round. Each mystery symbol will reveal the same symbol, starting from the lowest tier in the paytable.

Overlay sheriff badge icons can be attached to regular pay symbols, and the current mystery symbol is upgraded to the next tier whenever 2 are collected. You can follow the progress in the “wanted” jail box on the right-hand side. You also get +1 extra free spin per mystery symbol tier upgrade, and this feature doesn’t trigger anymore if you manage to get to the top-tier symbol.

The 200 Spins The Great Stick-Up Slot Experience

The first minute of our 2:39-minute highlights video gives a pretty accurate impression of what the base game grind is like. Mostly dead spins, with a few small to mediocre wins sprinkled in for good measure. We trigger the bonus round at the 1-minute mark, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Both the title and the splash screen gave us perhaps too lofty expectations about this release, as it boils down to a pretty typical Pragmatic Play installment. The visuals are solid, but the base game is about as dry as the dusty main road in the midwest town where the supposed stick-up is taking place. It’s hard to see what’s so ‘great’ about it in that sense, although 1,000x can be landed from a single spin (or 1,500x in the unlikely event that you fill the screen with wilds).

You need the bonus round to truly do damage in other words, and this is the only way to crack the hard-capped 5,000x potential. All the entertainment value is basically contained in the bonus round, which puts extra pressure on it to deliver. A lot depends on the number of sticky mystery symbols you rack up, and what upgrade level you reach. It’s not really a super-entertaining feature most of the time though, which makes this release a somewhat disappointing mediocrity.

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