Liberty Rockets Slot by RealTime Gaming

Four progressive pots ride along the left of a three-reel cabinet, and that's an odd pairing right away. Grand, Major, Minor and Mini sit stacked beside the drum, and any one of them can drop at the end of a base spin with no trigger you control. The award is random, the values scale with your bet, and you don't line anything up to chase them. They simply land or they don't, which is the modern bolt-on grafted onto an otherwise old-school fruit machine.

The reels themselves keep it traditional. A golden Liberty Bell, blue triple-BAR plaques, a star-spangled marching drum and a Golden Eagle coin spin on a metallic three-row drum, all set against a bold red-white-and-blue panel stamped with a faint outline of the United States. The shield marked WILD substitutes for the regular symbols, and a nudging variant slides into place to finish a line it would otherwise just miss. That nudge is the only real wrinkle in the base game.

The Eagle coins run the hold-and-win side. Land enough of them and they lock in place while the rest of the reels respin, holding the collected coins and adding any new ones that appear, each carrying its own value or a multiplier. Scatters open a round of free games, and bonus symbols send you to a prize wheel that hands out spins and multipliers rather than straight cash. A side-bet panel sits there too, letting you pay above the line bet to widen your odds on the features and the jackpots.

Worth being straight about the numbers: this one's brand new and RTG keeps its specs private, so the RTP and a top-end win figure aren't publicly stated anywhere yet. What you can judge is the design, and it's a nostalgic Vegas three-reeler dressed in Fourth of July fireworks, given just enough modern plumbing - four jackpots, a coin hold-and-win, a wheel - to feel less bare than the bells and BARs suggest.