Jaws of Justice

Jaws of Justice: Slot Overview

It's a big old universe, and since scientific instruments can only tell us so much, we don't really know exactly what's out there. These gaps in our knowledge leave plenty of room for the imagination to fly freely, which is what software provider Hacksaw Gaming has done for its outer space slot Jaws of Justice. In this game, players are accompanied by apex predators 'engineered for destruction' that have caused extinction on their home world and have now turned their attention to the stars in order to conquer nebulae. If that sounds peculiar, wait till you cop an eyeful of the actual game in action.

It looks like Hacksaw Gaming's creative side was let loose to design this one. Jaws of Justice follows no online slot trend when it comes to theme and presentation. Perhaps the film Sharknado was at the back of the studio's mind when it dreamt up the game, with touches of Desert Shark or Razor Shark possible influences, at a stretch. Jaws of Justice is like none of them, though, as it is set on an alien part of space, with brush strokes of bold colour abstractly thrown around the place. Sharks, too, there are loads of them, either landing on the gaming grid or floating in space next to it. It's all very odd, but not bad odd, so if you let go and float along with all the apex predators and cosmic chrome, it makes for a fun break from more conventional slot themes.

Jaws of Justice's chromed, futuristic, gaudy play area is a 5x4 gaming area with 14 paylines evaluating winning combinations of matching symbols from the leftmost reel. At 4 out of 5, Jaws of Justice is highly volatile, and it takes bets of $/€0.10 to $/€100. Four RTP configurations have been constructed, and 96.2% is the highest they go.

On the paytable are 10 regular paying symbols. They are 10-A card ranks, awarding 2x the bet for 5 OAK, and space versions of rhinos, crocs, tigers, dinosaurs, and sharks. Premium symbols pay 5x to 10x the bet for 5 OAK combinations. Wilds are present on all reels and substitute for all regular paying symbols. A line of 5 wilds is also worth 10x the stake.

Jaws of Justice: Slot Features

Jaws of Justice chomps its way through Laser Shark symbols, Force Fields, Killer Cosmos, Chompocalypse, and Nuclear Nebula free spins, plus feature buys.

Laser Shark Symbols

Laser Shark symbols can only land on the bottom row of the grid. When they land, all Laser Sharks shoot a Laser in one of three directions - up, diagonally left, or diagonally right. Every pay symbol along the path of the Laser beam transforms into a wild symbol. Some wilds may reveal an additive multiplier of up to x200. If a Laser hits an existing wild, that wild gets a multiplier. If the wild already has a multiplier, the value is increased. When more than one Wild Multiplier is part of the same win, their values combine. Laser Sharks transform into wilds after activating.

Force Fields

There is a Force Field on the left, top, and right edges of the grid. If a Laser Shark hits a Force Field, the Laser bounces off it and continues in another direction at the same angle, continuing to transform pay symbols into wilds. If a Laser hits a Force Field straight on, the Laser bounces back the way it came, adding a multiplier to transformed wild symbols, and if it hits a Laser Shark, it transforms it into a wild multiplier.

Free Spins

• Killer Cosmos Bonus Game - Hitting 3 FS scatters in the base game triggers 10 free spins. This bonus keeps the base game mechanics with an increased chance of landing Laser Sharks. In this feature and the next, landing 2 or 3 FS scatters awards an extra +2 or +4 free spins, respectively.
• Chompocalypse Bonus Game - This bonus round triggers by landing 4 FS scatters in the base game, and 10 free spins are awarded. It has the same mechanics as Killer Cosmos, with the addition that each activated Laser Shark shoots Lasers in two different directions.
• Nuclear Nebula Hidden Epic Bonus - Landing 5 FS scatters in the base game activates this bonus with 10 free spins. It is the same as Chompocalypse, plus at least 1 Laser Shark will land on every spin. Scatters do not land in this feature.

Feature Buys

From the feature buy menu, players can activate BonusHunt FeatureSpins at 3x the bet to make each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game, or Lazzzer FeatureSpins at 100x to guarantee at least 1 Laser Shark lands per spin. Killer Cosmos costs 100x to buy while Chompocalypse has a 250x the bet price tag.

Jaws of Justice: Slot Verdict

Jaws of Justice feels like one of those games the developer decided to have a bit of fun with an absurd premise and see how it turns out. The result is a surreal mash-up of cosmic predators and sci-fi weirdness, starring space sharks, crocs, lasers, and more, because, eh, why not? The theme actually, bizarrely works quite well, and if nothing else, gamblers get a break from staring at leprechauns, or cowboys, or fruit. Hacksaw Gaming has a skilled graphics team, and the background art is of a high standard, helping fuel the imagination, alongside the team of wild animals that 'have only one instinct - to kill.'

The gameplay is serious stuff, too, and while we've seen Hacksaw Gaming use spreading wild features on more than one occasion, the team has come up with a new way of utilising the effect. There were flashes of Beam Boys, for example, but Jaws of Justice has a couple of key differences. One is that Lasers are able to shoot in three directions instead of just one, meaning wilds can be added all over the grid rather than along a single reel or row. Furthermore, multiplier values top out at x200, and the max win is 10,000x the bet, meaning so far so good. However, Hacksaw doesn't leave it there. Force Fields can make an enormous difference to the way a spin turns out, literally going from zero to light speed due to a couple of Laser blasts and some handy Force Field bouncing. Free spins during the Chompocalypse feature felt very volatile, and the difference between landing no Laser Shark symbols and landing several of them was about as binary as it gets.

In short, Jaws of Justice isn't just a gleefully unhinged space slot possessing oddball visuals and some more wild multiplier spreading tacked on. The studio has had a real think about what it can do with this sort of feature and made something that doesn't just expand what's possible using wild multiplier adding mechanics, it's done so in a way which can cause a real adrenal spike when it hits Warp Factor 9.