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Slot Review: Sports Night

Well, we’ll say this for Sports Night: it may have already tied up the award for the ugliest online slot game that we will review in 2009. Aside from this extremely dubious distinction, we don’t know what else can be said for this particular title, which comes to us courtesy of Microgaming. It’s only about a year and a half old, so there’s not really an excuse for the amateur-looking graphics, the frenetic and unpleasant gameplay, and the lame jackpot. Avid sports fans could probably find better forms of amusement than spending their time and money on this game!

Sports Night is a five-reel, twenty-five payline title. Coin values go from a penny to a quarter, with everything in between. Max coins is set at two hundred fifty. There is a small jackpot of seven thousand coins, which hits often because of its unimpressive size. There are plenty of paylines, which means that you are likely to hit at the very least one winning combo per spin if you have bet on every line – a good idea no matter which slot machine you have chosen to play.

The reels are filled with generic images of athletes in action, along with the various bits of equipment and apparatus necessary to play such sports as baseball, hockey, and soccer. A cheering crowd is the man sound you hear playing this slot game, and it gets quite repetitive after a while. There are wild and scatter symbols, as well as free spins and a gamble bonus feature. The garish colors of this game are a real turn-off, however, and the uninspired gameplay doesn’t go far towards convincing us to overlook the visual unpleasantness.

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