This new online slots game was released on 23 April, and is based on everyone’s favourite neck-biter, Count Dracula (in fact we already have a review of Dracula published). The blood-feasting Count has been depicted in numerous styles ever since he was first dreamt up by novelist Bram Stoker in 1897. In NetEnt’s new slot he takes on the appearance of a brooding, raven-haired young man wearing a muscle vest.
When you enter the game, you get to view one of NetEnt’s trademark cinema-standard feature animations. Here, a fearful young lady is being pursued around town by some unseen malevolent force. As the action pans out, you get to see her pursuers are a crowd of black bats.
The girl gives the bats the slip but slips herself and tumbles to the cobbles. As she slowly backs away she notices something out of the corner of her eye … the camera fast-zooms in to the look of horror on her face and the rest is darkness.
When the game begins Dracula is sitting to the left of the reels, looking suitably brooding. He obviously pays out your wins from his own coffers, as whenever you land a winning combination he reaches forwards from his seat and bares his fangs at you.
Dracula also has a habit of dissolving into a flock of fearsome black bats. Whenever this happens, the swarm of bats swoop over the reels and turn a selection of the reel positions into the same symbol. If the other reels finish up in favourable positions, you could be on course for some bankroll-boosting wins.
To prove that he is not simply all about menace, Dracula has a lady friend in this game who appears to be same girl as was being chased in the intro animation. Dracula himself appears as a stacked wild on reel two, and his lady friend as a stacked wild on reel four. If both appear in full on the reels following a spin, you are awarded ten free spins during which Drac does his batty trick on each and every turn.
Free spins begin with another animation which shows Dracula’s journey from his home in Transylvania to England. The bonus spins end with Dracula and his lady friend celebrating your success with a dance … unfortunately the sight of the lady’s bare neck and shoulder proves to be too much for Dracula to be able control himself.
The game has five reels and four reel positions, plus forty pay lines, ten bet levels and a range of possible coin values from 0.01 to 2.00. It’s available at any online casino that carries NetEnt titles, and for both computers and mobile devices via NetEnt Touch.
If you’ve never played a NetEnt slot before, than Dracula serves as an excellent introduction to their brilliant and entertaining range of online slots games, even if Dracula comes across as a bit of a pain in the neck!