UFC Gold Blitz Extreme Slot Review

31/07/2024 | Categories: Microgaming Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 21/11/2024

Fortune Factory Studios is a Microgaming, now Games Global partner that has carved a niche for itself in the online gambling domain for making good-looking games and the blitz mechanism, implemented in most of this studio’s releases. Fortune Factory Blitz games usually incorporate symbol transformations, enhanced paylines, and multiplier boosts. We have only reviewed one Fortune Factory game, Amber Sterling’s Mystic Shrine slot, and we are sad to say that we do not know and could not locate much info about this company.

It released UFC Gold Blitz Extreme on July 1st, 2024, at exclusive hubs, and it got global distribution on the 23rd of this month. It did well enough in the first week of its worldwide launch, ranking in the top one hundred most played games in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ontario, Greece, the Netherlands, and a few other territories. We assume it pulled in such decent numbers following its debut due to the strength of the UFC brand and not of the reputation of Fortune Factory Studios. But here, we will focus on what this game features and the quality it boasts. Hence, let us get to that.

Theme & Design

We are massive MMA fans, going back to the late 1990s, and we are familiar with virtually all mixed martial arts organizations of note. Naturally, the most popular that has ever existed is the UFC, or the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the sport’s largest promotion. It got founded in 1993 by Rorion Gracie and Art Davie. Of course, Dana White, the current head honcho of the UFC, is the non-fighter who is most synonymous with this organization. It has a roster of around six hundred fighters who compete in eleven weight divisions.

To our knowledge, this is the second branded UFC slot. The first got developed by the Stars Group and got primarily hosted at this operator’s sites. It got unleashed in May 2019, boasting UFC legends Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes as spotlighted fighters. Brazilian Johnny Walker joins these champions as the odd man out. But he had two quick and impressive KO wins in 2019, so we assume that is why he got included.

UFC Gold Blitz Extreme uses the same presentation formula as other Fortune Factory’s Blitz spinners. You get an octagon backdrop here, with a blue overlay (red in the free spins) and four jackpot rewards listed on the left side of the reel grid, which is semitransparent and has bland low-pay symbols and image premiums. During your gameplay in UFC Gold Blitz Extreme, you will see loads of coin animations, machine-like sound effects, and bonus tease reel animations. The music here is pretty generic, and you get some mid-fight images pop up during specific periods of your gaming fun here.

The button setup is a pretty traditional one, with the bet functions in the central bottom part of your screen, with the bet selector left of them, and your win amounts displayed on the right of the auto-spin button. You will find the bonus multiplier for your session in the top left, and the bonus buy button sits in the top right corner of your screen on desktops.

Specs & Gameplay

You get a 6×4 symbol layout in UFC Gold Blitz Extreme, and this configuration holds 4,096 paylines. The game comes in three RTP versions. These are 92%, 94%, and 96%. The variance in this MMA spinner is high, or as Fortune Factory states – very high, and the max win stands at x5,500 on a top wager of $50 per gaming round. The lowest is $0.20 per spin, and the hit variance here is 29.89.

The Fortune Factory Studio website also highlights that this spinner is available in thirty-four languages.

UFC Gold Blitz Extreme low-pay tokens are 10 to A royals producing wins of x1 to x1.4 for six-of-a-kind winning combos. Weili Zhang, Conor McGregor, Amanda Nunes, and Jon Jones are the premiums in this reel-spinning titles yielding wins of x2 (for McGregor and Zhang) or x2.6 (for Nunes and Jones) if six matching symbols from this group show up on a spin. There is also a dollar sign premium that generates wins when two to six instances of it stop in view, for a maximum win of x5 for six.

A glove touch is the wild here, appearing on all the reels but not the first one in the base gameplay and only on the middle three in the free spins. We should add that matching token combos must form on adjacent reels in UFC Gold Blitz Extreme.

Bonus Features

In our eyes, the heart of this spinner is the Collect Mechanic, which supplies prizes when Collect symbols are alongside Cash symbols. Cash ones appear on the entire grid, but Collects show up on only the first and last reels. If a Collect symbol lands on these without any Cash symbols, it triggers the Respin feature. That mode respins the middle four reels and guarantees one Cash token in the worst-case scenario.

Non-collected Cash symbols are gathered, boosting this game’s four fixed jackpots. Any Cash token can trigger the Jackpot Game, guaranteeing one of these four rewards, with the main one worth x1,000. Two scatters contribute to Rising Multipliers in this pick, which starts at x1, growing to a value of x5 over time. The accumulated multiplier gets used in the next Free Spins or Gold Blitz Spins.

Landing at least three Scatters, the bonus hand symbols, activates the Bonus Choice menu, allowing you to select either the Free Spins or Gold Blitz Spins. The first round can deliver up to thirty on-the-house gaming opportunities, depending on the number of triggering Scatters, with Wilds carrying win multipliers up to x5 and Rising Multipliers in effect. Alternatively, Gold Blitz Spins delivers up to seven free chances, and the gaming fun here focuses more on the Collect Mechanics, with a guaranteed win for each spin. Buying these bonus rounds is a possibility, costing between x60 and x240, depending on the number of desired activating scatters.

GOSU Verdict

As MMA fans, we find this UFC-themed online slot acceptable. Fortune Factory will release a WWE Gold Blitz game in August, and that product has been getting loads of buzz months back. As far as UFC Gold Blitz Extreme goes, we would call this title good, but if we are super honest, we hoped for something better. Hoped is the key term, given that we are familiar with Blitz games, so this was about what we expected to get. Still, it is the only licensed UFC slot we know of, so if you love the Ultimate Fighting Champions and online gambling, it may be your jam. Check it out.