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Slot Review: Bigfoot

Have you ever been out camping or hiking in the woods and seen a footprint that just seemed a little larger than life? Ever seen something darting through the trees that appeared just too hairy and big to be a human? For hundreds of years, people have speculated as to the possible existence of a nonhuman hominid creature, one that was a freakish cross between man and beast. It has been called many things, this hairy and bipedal monster – Yeti and “the missing link” are just two of them – but, for our purposes, we shall call him “Bigfoot.” That’s what the eponymous online slot machine game calls him, so it’s good enough for us!

Bigfoot is a rollicking romp through the trees alongside some rugged outdoorsmen who are trying to track down the mythological creature. The hunters are using a radio controlled device to lure Bigfoot out of his forest home, but some smart guy has also concocted the brilliant notion of cooking a big stack of pancakes with sweet syrup to try and lure this furry menace out!

Bigfoot is a five-reel, twenty-five payline online slot that is one of Vegas Technology’s newest. Coin values start at one cent and range upwards to ten dollars, which means that there is a substantial spread of bets for those with a variety of payrolls to utilize. Max coins is set at a value of twenty-five (one coin per payline playable at a time), for a maximum per-spin wager of two hundred and fifty dollars per spin. The jackpot is five thousand coins, or fifty thousand dollars when played at max coins. There is a free practice mode for those who would like to try out the game before they play it for real money.

The graphics of this game are nothing especially fantastic, but perfectly acceptable. The background of the game opens up at sunset in the forest, providing a compelling and realistic setting for the action of this online slot as it’s presented to players. Most of the symbols on the reels are poker symbols (letters and numbers), but the reels also feature Bigfoot Crossing signs and images of a river at sunset and the hikers off exploring the woods. There are no less than thirty-six winning combinations possible with this dynamic and fun-to-play online slot game. Bigfoot himself is the wild symbol. It only appears on the second, third, and fourth reels, and it can substitute for any other icon on the reels in a winning combination. That is, of course, except for the scattered footprints scatter symbol. If you get three or more of this lucky symbol anywhere on the reels during a single given spin, you will activate the combined free spins and bonus feature for this game!

During the bonus game, you will see several pairs of creepy eyes looking out from the undergrowth of the forest. You get three chances at picking a set of eyes to try and find Bigfoot! If you find him on your first try, you’ll win twenty free spins. Finding him on the second try wins you fifteen free spins, and finding him on the third try wins you ten free spins. When the Bigfoot wild symbol comes up during your free spins round, he will reveal a random multiplier of either four, eight, or ten times your bet amount. Bigfoot multiplies the combinations of any combos he’s completed on that turn! Both the Bigfoot multipliers and scattered footprint symbols can be retriggered during the bonus round!

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