Crank It Up Slot Review

10/07/2024 | Categories: Pragmatic Play Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 10/07/2024

And we are back to looking at yet another Pragmatic Play release. There is no escaping reviewing this provider’s creations, as it churns out around six per month now, and most of them do quite well in developed markets, probably due to the recognition this supplier’s brand carries. Just as we were about to sit down to check out the latest Pragmatic title, we saw news tidbits that this company expanded in Argentina via a deal with Casino de Corrientes, and it set loose a Mega Sic Bac four-dice game that we may analyze shortly.

Here, we are exploring Crank It Up, a Pragmatic Play spinner that entered online casino’s game sections on July 7th, 2024, appearing everywhere globally simultaneously. So, no exclusive site release for this bad boy, for which it is too early to go through any ranking data. We can tell you that the provider expects good things from it, and it sandwiched its release between The Green Sun, a bank-theme slot with non-typical visuals for Pragmatic Play, and Irish Cash Chips, a fairly standard luck of the Irish title. But those games may get scanned at another time. Below, we devote ourselves to going through Crank It Up in detail.

Theme & Design

When we saw the promo image for Crank It Up, we got a bit confused regarding the theme of this online slot. The main character appeared to us (at first sight) as a stylish rockabilly singer. Yet, once we loaded this gaming product, it became clear that this was a disco/club spinner. The ones we would call most similar to this one, in terms of motif, are The Rave by Nolimit City, a super cool release from that Swedish company. Then, we have Biggy Winnie featuring The Rich On from Tom Horn. That is a music industry-inspired reel-spinning romp with a hold-and-win mechanic. Plus, DJ games, like DJ Cat and DJ Fox, both from Push Gaming or Party Night by Jili Games.

The gaming fun here takes place inside an empty club, with the reels spinning between two speaker holders with the game logo between them. The club utilizes primarily a violet color palette, but the light changes to red, yellow, and orange in the bonus round. You get the discussed main character standing right off the reel grid, reacting to big wins and round entries. He also appears on the grid in the extra mode, which we explain below.

The soundtrack of this Pragmatic Play release is a massive part of its presentation. While decent, it is nothing special in our opinion, and we were more fans of the free spins version, which was expectedly more dynamic. An aspect we were not fans of is that you get some of the same sound effects here as in other Pragmatic Play slots. Of course, this product features the traditional Pragmatic button interface.

While decent, we cannot say that the presentation here is exceptional in any way. We would even rank it slightly below average for this provider, which has a rep for creating eye-pleasing visuals. Nonetheless, we saw nothing overly stimulating in this slot on both the visual and audio fronts.

Specs & Gameplay

It is time to dive into the specifications of this 5×3 layout release from Pragmatic that carries a max exposure setting of x10,000, theoretically hittable once every 2.8 million spins. The betting range here is now the company’s standard of $0.20 to $240, and this high variance title comes in three RTP iterations. These are 94%, 95%, and 96%. You should be able to hit winning combos in this game every fifth spin, and the likelihood of entering its bonus round is one in two hundred and twenty-four. We should not fail to mention that the number of paylines in Crank It Up is twenty.

As you probably anticipated, you get rewards in this online gambling product by hitting three to five matching tokens on one of its twenty paylines. The low-pay symbols of Crank It Up are disco-stylized royals in different colors, producing wins from x2.5 to x5 for five-of-a-kind combos. The premiums are item symbols. Sunglasses, a headset, a pair of golden boots, and a golden old-school mic. These generate wins from x15 to x35 when five identical tokens from this group of four hit on the same spin on a payline that pays left to right.

A golden record is a scatter in this title, and a boombox is the wild, only appearing on the middle three reels. The scatter can show up anywhere.

Bonus Features

The only bonus here is the free spin one, which you activate by landing three to five scatters. Depending on how many of these tokens stop in view, you can get ten, fifteen, or twenty complementary gaming rounds. In this mode, wilds mark their hits spots, and when a new one appears in that position, its multiplier will grow up to a max value of x10.

Once the awarded spins get used up, three special ones come into play, and the marked grid positions get morphed into sticky wilds with multipliers. During these special gaming rounds, novel wilds cannot appear. You can retrigger the main free spin bonus, but you cannot reactivate it when the special spins are playing out.

There is a bonus buy option in Crank It Up, and it comes at a cost of x80 for your total wager.

GOSU Verdict

As always, we will keep things one hundred with you. We did not have high hopes for Crank It Up, and the quality of this game was about what we expected. The extra special spins are a nice touch, but they cannot offset the lack of features in this spinner that primarily leans on its music, max win, and visuals to capture players. We need more than that, as we require a higher level of engagement to recommend a slot to you. Crank It Up is standard Pragmatic fare that mostly caters to casual online gamblers who do not care to have an immersive experience when testing their luck on virtual reels.