The Great Stick-up

There is some sticking up going on here, though its greatness is questionable, as the gameplay felt a little too thin to warrant such a lofty word. The base game's pretty dry, with nothing except regular line wins taking place, so it fell to the bonus round to provide the vast bulk of any pulse-racing action. During testing, at least, free spins did tend to trigger quite often. Noticeably more often than is usually the case in a Pragmatic Play slot. Not like every other spin, but it would have been good to back up the anecdotal evidence with official bonus round frequency figures, had they been provided. Actively promoting a juicy, free spins hit rate might have helped Pragmatic Play sell The Great Stick-up, too, because the rest wasn't super exciting if we're being honest. As mentioned, the base game spent a lot of time going around in a loop, not accomplishing much - maybe that's the reason Pragmatic Play used such a funky disco track, to add drama where there was none? Or, not much, at least. The Great Stick-up gets more interesting during its bonus game, but not substantially so. It's not hard to race through the progression feature and end up on one of the higher symbols, yet it was tough to land substantial numbers of sticky mystery symbols in useful positions. Not all bonus rounds turned out to be disappointing, but enough did to get tiresome after a while. Maybe our luck wasn't running hot on the day since The Great Stick-up does come with a win cap of5,000x the bet, which instantly ends a bonus round if hit. Whilst The Great Stick-up has a good look plus a high energy soundtrack, its thin features and drip-drip frequent yet low-value bonus rounds ended up weakening the experience. Not saying thrilling moments can't happen in The Great Stick-up, but when we'd been through a string of disappointing free spin rounds, it was tough to stick it out to experience one, and it got to the point where interest simply dried up.