NetEnt seems more interested in the past than in the future these days, and they admittedly do have plenty of solid, yet forgotten, games from their golden years. Veteran players may remember Wild Turkey from all the way back in 2013, and Wild Turkey Megaways is basically a revamped version utilizing the licenced dynamic grid system. You’re taken into the turkey village once again, and the visuals are somewhat inspired by the Mayan civilization, it seems.
NetEnt was definitely ahead of its time in the visual department, as the original holds up surprisingly well against this brand new version. Tons of extra win ways makes the whole turkey turn wild feature all the more exciting, and it comes about more frequently in the bonus round. The10,500x potentialis a bit higher than in the first game as well, and Wild Turkey Megaways offers nostalgia for veteran players and a pretty solid Megaways game for newcomers.
The 5 turkey characters are the high-value symbols in this game, and they pay between 0.8 and 3 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins. TheAvalanche mechanicmakes sure that winning symbols are removed and replaced by new and/or existing symbols dropping down, and this process repeats for as long as your winning streak lasts.
You get2 types of Wild symbolsin this game, and these are theWild Turkeyand theScatter Wild. You can land either wild on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5 only, and the Wild Turkey will only appear in the Wild Turkey feature. The scatter wild steps in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins, while also triggering the bonus round should you land 3+ of this wild in view.
TheWild Turkey featurecan trigger in all stages of the game, and it will activate reels 2, 3, 4, and/or 5 randomly at random times. All turkey symbols on the activated reels turn into wild symbols for that spin, and these wilds step in for any pay symbol to help complete and/or improve wins.
TheBonus Roundtriggers when you land3 scatterwilds in view, as mentioned above, and this gives you10 free spins. You get+2 extra spinsif a stack of scatter wilds fill an entire reel during the feature, and you get even more extra spins if you land more than one stack of scatter wilds. The Wild Turkey feature seems to trigger more often in the bonus round, and that’s the only real difference from the base game.
NetEnt continues their tour de force of revamping their old classics, and we don’t really mind this approach to be honest. There are plenty of forgotten and half-forgotten gems hidden in their comprehensive back catalog after all, and the original Wild Turkey was released all the way back in 2013. NetEnt hasn’t really gone overboard in the revamping process either, but fans of the original game will get a bigger, bolder, and somewhat more modernized version.
The original looks surprisingly modern as well though, except for the outdated interface. The Wild Turkey feature is the main attraction, and it’s a somewhat innovative way to turn a bunch of symbols wild. This can lead to decent to solid payouts in all stages, not least considering that the number of win ways can go as high as 117,649. The10,500x potentialis around average for this engine, and a few notches higher than in the original game. The nostalgia will probably be running high in those who remember the first game, and Wild Turkey Megaways is a decent game in its own right as well.
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