The Perfect Heist

Overview The Perfect Heist

Get your zip wire and night-vision goggles ready, this slot is all about pulling off one of the best ‘jobs’ ever. Needless to say, if you enjoyed the perfectly timed hijinks of George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the Oceans films, you’ll love this game. Created by PlayTech, The Perfect Heist has five key characters, each helpfully dressed in colour-coded outfits. Each of these daring thieves has its own special free spins feature, each of which come with varying modifiers to help players win big.

These include multipliers, expanding reels, as well as a generous helping of wild symbols. Things get interesting when these bonuses combine, as they can if you trigger 2 or more of the free spins rounds concurrently. This gives you access to all of the modifiers of the characters you trigger in one bumper free spins round with a lot going on. Players still need to be savvy as to their betting, but like the heisters, if they get it right, they could be in for a terrific windfall of 10,000 x their stake per spin.

Theme and Symbols

As you’d probably expect from a heist-themed game, all of the expected covert iconographies are in place. Indeed, The Perfect Heist is a textbook combination of Mission Impossible with Den of Thieves, with spy goggles, hacking computers and safes all used to dramatic effect. At centre stage for all of this drama are the 5 different characters who are part of the heist team.
The background is a cityscape at dusk in the location where the reconnaissance van is usually parked outside the bank or museum that is being robbed. Throughout the game, there is a tense action movie soundtrack playing in the background, which lends anticipation and excitement to the whole feature.

When it comes to the symbols, the lowest value ones are card symbols from A to J in royals. In addition to these on the next set up in terms of value are a set of keys, a padlock, some coins and gold and silver bullion. However, the most rewarding symbol for this game is the diamond. The diamond is worth 25x your stake for 5 in combination across a pay line. The locked vault door is the wild symbol for this game. The scatters are the various team members dressed monochromatically.

Game Play

The Perfect Heist is played on a 5-reel board with 3 rows which can be expanded to 4. There are 20 pay lines available for this slot on the base game with opportunities to grow them in the extra content. To form wins when playing The Perfect Heist, players need to land 2 or more matching symbols on pay lines starting from reel 1 on the left-hand side of the reels.

The betting range for The Perfect Heist is 10p to £500 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can use the betting tool located on the left-hand side of the reels. The spin button is stylised to look like a safe knob. Clicking it once will spin the reels once, however holding it will engage auto spins.

Volatility for this slot is rated at the high end of the spectrum. The return to player percentage for The Perfect Heist is 96.12%, about average for a slot of this kind of design. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is a respectably hefty 10,000x your stake per spin.

Features

The features for this game revolve around the special free spins rounds which each player delivers.
The Safe Cracker feature is the free spins feature triggered with the women in red with the pair of pliers. Landing her on reel 1 gives you one free spin that is played on an expanded set of reels with 243 pay lines.

The Inside Man feature is the feature with the security guard scatter. Landing him on reel 2 gives players a free spin with a random multiplier applied to your win up to the value of 10x.

The Hacker feature concerns the green computer hacker man. Landing him on the middle reel gives you somewhere in the region between 2 and 10 free spins.

The Gymnast feature concerns the woman in night vision goggles. Landing her on reel 4 gives you one free spin on an expanded 40 pay line board.

The Demolition feature is the feature related to the man in headphones. Landing him on reel 5 gives you a free spin complete with a random allocation of wilds. They can land anywhere on reels 2, 3 or 4.

Combining features by landing more than one of the special characters on the reels at once will give you the best chance to score those bigger payouts. By combining features, you can have multiple free spins with expanded pay lines, added wilds and multipliers active.

Conclusion

Playtech has developed a fun and novel slot game in The Perfect Heist. The big fun and the more rewarding payouts as we have mentioned, come when players manage to combine the various features for a bumper free spins round. The graphics and finish also endear the game to players, as most will appreciate the professional visual standard.