First Person Lightning Roulette - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

First Person Lightning Roulette overview

Like Evolution’s Lightning Blackjack, First Person Lightning Roulette takes a classic game, decorates it with dramatic lightning, and adds lucky numbers with multipliers. There is a live casino - the area where you play against other people - and a dealer handing out the cards or spinning the wheel. You start with the random number generator, or RNG, which slots and other online games use to ensure fair and unpredictable outcomes, free of outside influence. This is an essential part of many single-player games.

Roulette first appeared in France in the 1700s, developed from previous wheel-based games. The shiny, gold-framed wheel in First Person Lightning Roulette is easily recognisable with its numbered black and red segments, and the graphics are sharp and modern with their 3D detail and lively animation. The table on which you lay your bets is dark red, and there are notes of black and gold around the screen.

How to play First Person Lightning Roulette

At its most basic, First Person Lightning Roulette is a standard roulette game played on a European-style wheel with 36 numbers and a zero. You lay your bets on numbers, colours, or both, and you wait to see where the ball lands when the wheel stops spinning. It has all the regular bets, no side bets, and the additional feature of lucky numbers and the option to GO LIVE.

Bets are laid

As with most forms of gambling, you can’t start until you make a wager. In First Person Lightning Roulette, this must be at least 10p. You place your chips on the betting array, which lays out the possible numbers or colours. You could just put them on one number or cover multiple positions. All the usual roulette bets are here, and there are no side bets.

Lucky numbers are assigned

Every round of First Person Lightning Roulette has lucky numbers. They are assigned at random before you hit the spin button and before the ball has a chance to land in a pocket. There will always be at least one lucky number, and there could be as many as five; what’s more, each will have a multiplier attached.

The wheel spins

Once your bets are laid, you can hit the spin button. The wheel will start to turn, and the ball will bounce around with it. Eventually, the wheel will come to a stop, and you will see the pocket in which the ball lands. If the colour and/or number match your bet, you win; if there is no match, you lose.

GO LIVE

This button is there at all times, so you can use it at the start of the round, somewhere in the middle, or not until the end. You don’t need to press it at all if you don’t feel like it. The decision as to whether to leave the completely computerised game for the live casino version is entirely up to you and can be done in your own time or not at all.

Special features

What sets Evolution’s lightning games apart from its other titles is their lucky numbers, which are a way of adding multipliers to the payout potential. For Evolution’s first-person options, such as First Person Lightning Roulette, the other distinction is that you start with an entirely computerised RNG game, but there is a special GO LIVE button to take you to the live casino with its real hosts.

Lucky numbers

This is where the lightning strikes. Every time you start a new round of First Person Lightning Roulette, between one and five numbers are picked at random. Each of these numbers will receive its own multiplier, with a minimum of 50x and a maximum of 500x. These multipliers will become active if you win a straight up bet; for example, if the 1 has a 50x multiplier and you place a straight up bet on it, your payout will be multiplied by 50.

GO LIVE

We must talk about the distinctive GO LIVE feature. This isn’t something that needs a special trigger, as the button is always there. If you want to leave the computer and find the live casino, with computers and RNGs replaced by people, it can be pressed at any time. It will take you straight through with no strings attached.

Betting options

You will find the same range of betting options as in any standard game of roulette. There are no side bets to worry about, just the usual inside bets (those that are more difficult to land, as they cover smaller areas, but are also higher paying) and outside bets (the ones that offer smaller payouts but are easier to hit).

Inside bets:

• Straight up: betting on a single number.


• Split: any two vertically or horizontally adjacent numbers.


• Street: three numbers in a horizontal row.


• Corner: a box of four numbers together.


• Line: covers 0, 1, 2 and 3.

Outside bets:

• Dozen: breaks the numbers into sets of 12, either 1-12, 13-24, or 25-36.


• Column: all the numbers in a vertical column.


• Even/odd: whether the numbers will be even or odd.


• Red/black: this time, you bet on whether the ball lands on red or black.


• Low/high: either the low half of the numbers (1-18) or the high half (17-36).

Payouts

Most of these odds are as they would be in a regular roulette game, with one exception. Straight up is normally worth 35:1; here, the value is lowered slightly to 29:1 to allow for potential boosts from the lucky numbers with their multipliers.

• Straight up: 29:1


• Split: 17:1


• Street: 11:1


• Corner: 8:1


• Line: 5:1


• Dozen: 2:1


• Column: 2:1


• Even/odd: 1:1


• Red/black: 1:1


• Low/high: 1:1

Optimal strategy

As in Evolution Gaming slots, the results in First Person Lightning Roulette are decided by a random number generator, which means you have no control over the outcome. This means being responsible, such as through loss, single win, and session length limits or the use of timeout or self-exclusion functions, is vital as your main way to retain control.

Your risk level is influenced heavily by whether you choose inside or outside bets. Inside bets have the potential to pay you a lot more, but it is a lot less likely that you will win in the first place. It is safer to stick to the outside bets, even though they don’t have such high returns. At all stages, keep referring to your budget so you know when you need to walk away.

Game controls

1. You will probably want to double-check the rules, which means going up to the top corner and pressing the question mark button.


2. This top corner is also home to your settings. The sound and full-screen buttons are available separately.


3. The chips can be seen towards the bottom of the screen, with each different colour representing a different level of bet. Click the chip that represents your preference.


4. Once you have chosen a chip, click the table to lay your bet. You will see all the possible numbers and colours and can place the chip to cover one position or more, or even a whole row or column.


5. There is a spin button that you can press once your bet is settled as you want it. This will set the wheel spinning, and all you can do is wait for it to stop.


6. The GO LIVE button is a constant presence if you ever decide you want to travel through the portal to the live casino.