Basketball King Hold and Win Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Basketball King Hold and Win Review

The crack of the hardwood floor as a player takes a jump shot. The swish of the net as the ball goes through the hoop. We only wish such details would’ve been incorporated in iSoftBet’s Basketball King Hold and Win, but this is more of an ordinary sports slot than anything too special. Their Hold & Win series is growing rapidly, and it doesn’t seem like iSoftBet has the time nor the willingness to do something extraordinary with most installments.

The cartoon style symbols are set against a basket court backdrop with a somewhat mind-bending angle shot, and the top-tier symbol is a basketball player in the middle of a slam dunk. You’ll benefit from a 3x3 Giant Wild at random times, and it too depicts a slam dunk in action. Other than that, there is the mandatory Hold & Win round with a 1,000x full-grid prize, as well as a more exciting bonus round with stacked wild multiplier reveal symbols.

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Basketball King Hold and Win Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 4 and 12.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol steps in for any pay symbol to help complete and/or improve wins. You can trigger the Basketball King Wild Spin feature at any given time, and this means that a 3x3 sized giant wild will land either fully or partially in view anywhere on the grid.

The Hold & Win Respins Feature triggers from 5+ Cash Fireball symbols in view, and you start with 3 respins in your tally.

The triggering Cash Fireballs come with cash prizes, and they are sticky on the grid from get-go. Only blanks or new cash symbols may appear, and each new cash fireball symbol resets the respin tally to 3 each time. Filling all 15 positions with nothing but cash symbols lands you the MVP Award prize worth 1,000x your stake.

The Bonus Round triggers from 3+ bonus symbols in view, and this gives you 10 free spins. You also win 2x, 10x, or 100x your stake up front, from 3, 4, or 5 triggering bonus scatters, respectively. You can land fully stacked Multiplier Coin symbols on reels 2 and 4 in the bonus round, and these are Wild symbols that reveal a multiplier of x1, x2, x3, x5, or x10.

The multiplier boosts all line wins that pass through these wilds, and the multipliers multiply with each other for a maximum boost of x100. You win +5 extra spins if you land 3+ bonus scatters on the same free spin.

The bonus round comes with an organic hit rate of 1 in 202 spins, which is about as average as it gets.

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Review Summary

We can think of plenty of things that could make a basketball game like this far more visually engaging, such as stunning animations of slam dunks and 3-pointers. Sadly, iSoftBet hasn’t really gone the extra mile with Basketball King Hold and Win, and it comes across as yet another mediocre installment in their never-ending Hold & Win range. The visuals are decent enough, don’t get us wrong, but only hardcore basketball fans will find this game to be worthwhile.

The cartoon style graphics come across as a half-hearted attempt to be “hip” , and there is only one actual basketball player in this game. The court in the backdrop is empty, but the random giant wild feature is somewhat fun when it triggers. It can lead to decent payouts as well, but cracking the 4,523x potential is most likely done in the stacked multiplier wilds bonus round. The Hold & Win feature doesn’t really take center stage this time, and it could’ve easily been dropped to add even more juice to the main attraction.

Pros

• Random 3x3 Giant Wild feature
• Hold & Win w/ 1,000x full-grid jackpot
• FS w/ stacked wild multiplier reveal symbols
• Win up to 4,523x your stake

Cons

• Appeals to die-hard basketball fans only

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