Slots Type:
3 Reel, 1 Payline Fruit Machine.
Software:
Microgaming
Description:
This game was the first attempt from Microgaming at making a fruit machine. To
be fair to Microgaming they did not actually make the game, they
let a company in London make it. So you would expect it to be
a pretty authentic fruit machine style game. The game does indeed
have a number of typically British features, the name for example
is 'Pub Fruity'. It is true that pretty much every pub in the UK has
a Fruit Machine. Then there is the Held feature which has been made to look like a
packet of Walkers Salt and Vinegar Crisps and the use of darts
(another very common pass time in a British Pub).
The sound effects are spot on and really make
you feel like you are in a typical busy British Pub and all the
flashing on the bonus ladder certainly added to the realistic
feel of the game.
With all of that said I personally expected the
game to be better, it is (in my opinion) low on features and lacks
many of the things a real British fruit machine would have. For
example there is no gamble feature (I don’t think I have
ever played a fruit machine that does not have a hi/lo gamble
or a gamble feature of some type). You have no control at all
over which symbols to hold, in fact the crisp packet 'held feature'
lights up and makes a noise from time to time but I can not see
anything actually being held so I don’t know why they went
through all the effort of creating that packet.
Cash Ladder:
The Cash Ladder in this game is referred to as the Drinks Trail,
a nice touch. It is full of features and it is one of the stops
on the drinks trail that allows you the chance to hold a symbol
(which does not seem to come up very often much to my disappointment).
There are also a number of multiplier bonuses on
the drinks trail ranging from 2 times your bet up to 500 times
your bet. I really like the Stoppa Win spot which starts all
the different multiplier spots flashing one after the other and
you have to click to stop it, and obviously you are aiming to stop
it on the highest paying multiplier. I found this feature to be
just like the fruit machine in my local pub.
The Cocktail Shaker is also a pretty authentic
spot. When you land on the Cocktail Shaker the cash ladder lights up and down
and stops on a random spot (sometimes you win and sometimes you
don’t).
Bonus Darts Game:
I really liked the idea of this but after playing this game for
an hour I had never once saved up enough darts to play the game.
As there is no expert mode on this game I could not simply turn
the auto spin on and wait for it to come up so I am giving up
for now.
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