When it comes down to Miles Bellhouse and the Gears of Time Slots, Betsoft's team have made a game that is as complicated as its title, but that doesn't reduce how entertaining, profitable, or good-looking it is. As is the case with the provider's most visually spectacular games, the merging of background and reels is seamless. Players see a sci-fi laboratory that is seemingly set-up at the top of a bell tower; the huge clockwork parts surrounding the reels' frame clearly show that.
Two lines of teal energy pass through pipes, and the essential part of the machine – a mystical portal with spinning green light is to the reels' right. The highlight of the main screen, however, are undeniably the two fully 3D-animated characters. One of them is Miles Bellhouse, all suited up and ready for work, and the other one is his robot assistant. The level of detail and animation on the duo is so spectacular that players might think that they are watching a feature animated film rather than playing an online game.
Control Time and Acquire Massive Profits Through Cluster Wins
The game's reels are five by five grid, and the biggest possible bet is 60 credits. The gameplay is based on the cascade effect. When matching symbols appear next to each other on the reels, they will explode, deliver earnings, and new symbols will drop to replace them, possibly creating a theoretically endless sequence of wins. The game features a massive number of bonus features. Prizes in the form of multipliers, re-triggers, free spins, and wilds abound. The paytable is small, but naturally, because of the increased number of positions on the reels, the symbols have much more winning combinations than most symbols in an average slot game.
Seven Symbols with Many Profitable Combinations
All of the paytable's symbols have the same number of clusters available – between 3 and 25. The protagonist's symbol is the most profitable, and it awards between 120 and 12 000 credits. The main character's mechanical sidekick offers payouts that can be as small as 96 credits and as big as 9000 credits. The intricate clock-like device brings as little as 72 credits and as much as 6000. The specialized scientific spectacles' lowest prize is 48 credits, while their biggest one is 4200. The remaining three symbols are clockwork parts of different colors – golden (from 26 to 2600 credits), silver (from 24 to 1800 credits), and bronze (from 12 to 1200 credits).
Time-Bending Bonus Features and Highly Rewarding Wilds and Scatters
During every single spin, five random positions will be chosen on the reels. After the end of every cascade, each one of these five positions can become a part of a winning combination. The greater the number of symbols participating in winning combinations grows, the bigger the chances for the activation of the game's bonus features become. When all five positions happen to be covered by symbols participating in a combination, the free spins feature will begin. The game also has a wild symbol – "Time Charged Wild," which can replace all other symbols without exception.
The Past feature allows the player to replay the previous spin. At the end of the replayed spin, a random influx of new symbols will appear, which will give players an additional chance for prizes. The cascade effect will then be repeated five times to improve the result of the previous spin. The Present effect awards a randomly chosen multiplier in the range from 2 to 20 that is then applied to the earnings made from the current spin after all the cascades are done. The Future effect chooses a single symbol from the reels and makes sure that it appears on many positions in the next spin (a free re-spin. At least 10 of the chosen symbol will make an appearance.
Players will choose the mode of play they prefer during the free spin feature – Past, Present, or Future. The Past option awards 12 free spins with an extra re-cascade at the very end. With the Present option, the number of awarded free spins is 10, and the random multiplier between 2 and 20 will be applied. During the Future option, six free spins will be granted. During them, 10 of a single randomly selected symbol will keep appearing to increase the player's eventual prizes.
Miles Bellhouse's latest slot adventure is an excellent science-fiction-themed game that features refreshingly original gameplay, equally innovative background story and characters, and extremely profitable gameplay that awards almost every type of prize imaginable.
