Sunday, April 29, 2012

Jaws



Aristocrat's Jaws is a 5 reel, 25 line video slot. The game is available in 1, 2, and 5c denominations. The minimum bet is 35 credits, which covers all 25 pay lines and the 10 credit ante bet that makes you eligible for the bonus games and multipliers.

The machine is heavily themed to the film with the famous fishing boat sitting atop the slot bank. Above this is a large LCD monitor that alternates between the current Hyperlink Jackpot values and showing clips from the original film. Each individual machine is trimmed with a water affect and topped with a buoy that sways back and forth and rings its bell when the jackpot game is triggered. The speakers that surround your chair play the iconic music from the film and even look like shark gills.  Lastly, your spin button is an embossed shark tooth.

Base Game:

The Jaws symbol is wild and substitutes for any symbol (except the tooth) and it also multiplies all wins in which it substitutes 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 20x or even 100x.

Bonus Rounds:

When three scattered tooth symbols appear, you choose between the Player's Choice Free Games feature and the Dice Game feature.

Free Games Feature: You select 5, 10 or 15 free games. The lower the number of games the better chance at a higher multiplier. Anytime a tooth symbol appears during the free games, a bonus multiplier of up to 100x will be awarded. The Free Games feature can be triggered again during your free spins.

Dice Games Feature: You will play a total of three dice games. The screen displays a grid of nine dice with the eight outer dice being rolled. If one or more jaws symbols are rolled, then they are held and the remaining outer dice are rolled again. This continues until no more Jaws symbols are rolled or 8 Jaws appear. At the end of each of the three dice games, a prize ranging from 70 to 5,000 credits is awarded. The prize is based on the number of Jaws spun up.

At the completion of the three dice games, the middle die is rolled to possibly award three more games.

Bonus Rounds

The following 4 bonus rounds can be triggered randomly. The edge lighting on the slot bank changes from a calm blue to a blood red.

Golden Jaws Bonus: Here you come face to face with Jaws and touch his teeth to reveal credit awards. After three picks, you can collect your winnings or risk it and continue touching teeth and building up credits. If you continue and the shark's mouth closes, you will lose half of the credits you have accumulated. However, you could also win the top prize of 1,000,000 credits, when playing max bet.

Shark Hunter Bonus: You must find Jaws behind one of the 20 squares in the fish finder grid. You can select between 1 and 15 picks, but the fewer the picks, the bigger the reward.

With 15 picks, the win is 700 credits
10 picks awards 1,000
5 picks awards 2,000
2 picks awards 5,000
And 1 pick, you win 10,000 credits.

The credit awards are then multiplied by the bet multiplier.  If you run out of picks before you find Jaws, you will receive a random credit consolation prize.

Feeding Time Bonus: Credit prizes are hidden behind 20 movie icons including sharks, swimmers and images from the film. The prizes range from 10 credits per line bet to 10,000 credits per line bet.  There's also a 5x multiplier available.

You can select two icons to reveal your prizes. At random intervals Jaws will appear and he will eat the icons. You can choose immediately or can wait and hope that Jaws eats the smaller prizes, giving you better odds at a larger win.

Hyperlink Jackpot Bonus: The screen changes to reveal a game board with a shark game piece and a boat game piece. The center reels spin and the boat chases Jaws around the board. When the boat catches the shark, you win whatever jackpot level is indicated on the square; Mini, Minor, Major or Grand. If the shark and the boat don't meet after 30 spins, you will still win the Mini Jackpot.

The Mini resets at $15-$30
Minor resets at $75-$150
Major from $150-$300
And the Grand from $800-$1,600

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Wolf Run 2



IGT's Wolf Run 2 is a 5 reel, 40 pay line video slot.  The game is available in several denominations starting at the penny level.  This game is the sequel of the original release in 2001.  The game is also available for 2 for 1 and 4 for 1 gaming meaning you can play two or four games at the same time on the same screen.  

As you would expect, Wolf Run 2 has several improvements from it's 2001 predecessor including enhanced sound, graphics and random wilds that hit frequently.  The game also has a 3D effect without the need for glasses that is achieved by layering 2 LCD screens on top of each other.  This has become a trademark feature of IGT games.

The most notable feature in Wolf Run 2 is the extra wild symbols which appear at random during both the base game and free spin bonus rounds.  These help to complete winning combinations often resulting in large payouts

Bonus Rounds

The bonus rounds are triggered when you collect 3 map books on reels 2, 3 and 4.  Once triggered, you will have the option to choose from the "Arctic Free Spins" bonus or the "Animal Tracking" bonus round.

Arctic Free Spin Bonus 

Choosing this bonus round will give you 10 free spins.  If you received a multiplier prior to choosing this bonus round, your free spin wins will also be multiplied by the same bet multiplier.  What's cool about this bonus is that you can trigger a subsequent bonus round by collecting three additional map books just like you did to enter this bonus round.

Animal Tracking Bonus

When you choose the bonus round, the screen will automatically change to a new page where you will be presented with sketches of different wild life.  Touch the animals you want to track and you receive instant credit awards.  The game continues until you hit the "Collect" icon which ends the bonus round.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Cashman Fever



Aristocrat Gaming's Cashman Fever: is a 5-reel, 50-line video slot with a 50-credit minimum bet and a 200 credit max bet.  The game is available in 1, 2 and 5-cent denominations.  Cashman Fever is the newest addition to the Mr Cashman Series of games that were first released by Aristocrat in 2002.

The base games is available in two distinct themes:

  • Top Croc with a chef crocodile theme
  • Amazon rain forest theme
Bonus Rounds

The game features 4 bonus rounds, all of which are triggered randomly, except for the progressive jackpot. The bonus features in this game have a high hit frequency and on average appear every 8 spins making the game very engaging.

Cashman Multiplier Bonus: Mr Cashman appears at the start of any spin and announcers an instant award multiplier from 2x to 10x

Cashman Added Wild Bonus: Mr Cashman appears and replaces all symbols on a reel with stacked Cashman symbols.  this can occur on 1 to all 5 reels and can result in huge wins.

Hold and Re-Spin Feature: Depending on the theme you are playing will determine the symbol you need to hit to activate this feature
  • In the Amazon theme you need the EYE symbol
  • The Croc Chef theme you are in search of the Croc's
Hit 4 of the said symbols on reel 1 and Mr Cashman appears and awards one to three re-spins.  This may randomly trigger the Cashman Nudge Feature.  Here Mr Cashman appears to randomly nudge the reel to reveal the fourth eye or croc symbol to trigger the free spins

Cashman Fever Cashpot:  As in the original Mr Cashman there is a four-level progressive jackpot, which can be won through a bonus event, the Cashman Fever Cashpot.

The jackpot starts at ...
  • $35 for Mighty
  • $70 for Mega
  • $200 for Jumbo
  • $2,500 for Super
Note these amounts are progressives and continually increase until won and then reset.

This is a different kind of progressive jackpot, your bet determines from which progressive pools you can win from.  There are actually 20 mini progressive jackpot pools.  As the game is 50-lines, a minimum bet of 50 credits is required.  The higher you bet per line the higher the jackpots you are qualified for.

The Cashpot Bonus Round is triggered by 5 scatter symbols.  The screen is converted to a grid of squares.  You must touch one corner square as a starting point to begin the game.  The squares spin like reels to reveal credit awards or Cashpot symbols.  The number of Cashpot symbols equals the progressive level.  A minimum of 3 is needed for the Mighty jackpot and 12 to trigger the Super jackpot.

3 Spins are awarded initially.  If one or more Cashpot symbol is revealed, those symbols are held and the spins remaining are reset to 3.  Credit prizes and Cashpot symbols connected to your original selection horizontally or vertically are awarded.  The feature ends after 3 consecutive spins without improvement or when all squares show a credit award of jackpot.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle



  
Aristocrat's: Tarzan Lord of the Jungle is a 30-line penny video progressive slot with a 50-credit minimum bet and a 150-credit max bet.

The game features four progressive jackpots include a mini jackpot starting at $10, a minor jackpot starting at $30, a major jackpot starting at $500, and the grand jackpot starting at $250,000. The Grand Jackpot can only be won when playing max bet.

The game is house in Aristocrat's Verve HD cabinet which is designed to provide the most ergonomically comfortable playing experience.  The 31.5 inch portrait monitor is fully adjustable and greatly reduces "Slot Machine Slump" pains because the screen is directly in your line of sight.


Bonus Rounds:

Tarzan Bonus is triggered at random.  One of the reels is replaced with stacked wild symbols and all future spins in the Tarzan bonus retain the wild symbols.

Stampede Bonus is also triggered randomly.  During this bonus a random number of scatter symbols appear above the reel and all symbols pay scattered in any direction.

Monkey Bonus: here a monkey swings across the screen turning random symbols to wilds.

Kerchak Bonus: awards 6 to 12 free spins, during which all spins are paid at either 2, 3, 5 or 10x multipliers.  This can be awarded in the Progressive Wheel bonus as well

Progressive Wheel Bonus:  is the best paying bonus the game has to offer. 3 or more scattered wheel symbols trigger the Progressive Wheel. Here you have the chance to win credit values, trigger the afore mentioned Kerchak bonus or hit the 4 progressive jackpots. Each spin of the wheel during this bonus round increase the credit values you can win, excluding the jackpots. All progressives can be won during this bonus except for the Grand which, as said earlier can only be won when playing max bet. 


Sunday, April 1, 2012

Bombs Away


IGT’s Bombs Away is a 5 reel, 50 pay line, penny video slot. The game features 3D graphics, The MegaFX surround sound, immersive audio seating, stacked wilds in the base game, two bonus rounds and 6 progressive jackpots, including a wide area progressive.

In the base game, stacked wild bombshells can be awarded on any pay line, which pay high credit values.  A max bet of $3.00 is needed to be eligible for the top progressive jackpot.  This is awarded by hitting 5 Bombs Away icons on the top pay line.

Bonus Rounds:
The bonus rounds are triggered when you hit 3 scattered bomb symbols. You then get to choose which bonus round you will enter by picking one of the bombs. You will either be awarded a credit value or enter a bonus round 

Top Secret Bonus: In this bonus, you get to press a button on the touch screen, which in turn spins the wheel on top of the machine. The wheel stops on a varying amount and you awarded this multiplied by your line bet. The higher the bet, the more you win.

As an added bonus, you may be given the option to choose one of five “Top Secret Files”. These contain either a credit value or one of the progressives, but not the jackpot.

Bombing Run Bonus: In this bonus, you are chosen to fly your fighter plane over enemy territory. You then must drop your bombs on “7” symbols and multipliers. You are given 7 flight runs, so this bonus results in high credit value awards.