The FIFA World Cup makes slots developers do crazy things. First it was NextGen Gaming that gave Foxin Wins a football avatar. Now Play n Go has transformed its popular mascot Hugo into a football player. Hugo Goal is the third slot game featuring the animated cartoon character after Hugo and Hugo 2. It has just gone live at Play n Go powered online casinos like InterCasino.

Hugo Goal is a three reels and 5 paylines slot machine, but do not let that disappoint you. The artwork is colourful and vibrant, there are bonus features and the classic slots symbols have been done away with. The reels are set in a makeshift stadium with animal characters watching. The four character symbols appear in stacks three high. Leading the team is Hugo. He is the wild symbol and also awards the highest line payouts. The evil Afskylia and Hugo’s arch enemy ironically appears as the referee. The other character symbols are Don Croco, her crocodile henchman, and Goat as spectators. The win animations see the characters jumping with joy. The low paying symbols are football, whistle, boots, stop watch and line flags. All payouts are for three like symbols on a defined payline.

The bonus features have been named after football action. The first one is titled Action Replay. It gets triggered in a winless spin when you land two full stacks of the same character symbol. The third reel will respin till a winning combination is hit. This means that the third reel should, partially or fully, show the same symbol or the wild Hugo. The second bonus feature is Free Kick. In order to activate the feature you need two full stacks of the same low paying symbol on the reels. The third reel will respin only one to give you a second chance at winning.

Hugo Goal has a bonus game on the second screen called Penalty Shoot-Out. It replicates the actual shoot-out from the football match and is triggered by filling all three reels with the same symbol. The reels disappear to show a crude goal in the field and Hugo as the goalkeeper. You have three directions in which Hugo can dive and have to choose one of them for him. If Hugo saves the goal you move on to the next multiplier. Saving all five goals awards the highest multiplier of 10x.