Great 88
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Overall impression
| Game Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Great 88 |
| Software: | BetSoft |
| Game Type: | 3D Slot |
| Paylines: | 30 |
| Progressive: | No |
| reels: | 5 |
Where to play?
Theme of The Game
Great 88 will give you a Chinese theme, but that much you could’ve guessed just by reading its name. The reason for the presence of the number 8 in the title, prizes and among the symbols, will be the fact that it is considered to be lucky by the Chinese.
The game’s action takes place in a Chinese garden, at night, with beautiful trees full of cherry blossoms, with a Chinese house nearby, with lit lamps providing light, and with large rocks in the distance. The reels are designed in a typical Chinese style, with the symbols providing more of the same.
Symbols of Great 88 will have multiple images of colored squares with writing on them, three bamboo bar symbols, plus images like lucky boxes, firecrackers, dragon and lion costumes, or frog statues made out of jade.
Developer
Betsoft, along with NetEnt, are two of the big developers that also manage to put out beautiful pokie machines with almost every release they have. Great 88 is a pretty good example of what such a developer can do even with a boring theme, which has been used dozens of times already.
They rely partly on usual symbols, partly on new ones, but the end result is a beautiful pokie machine. Most of the pokie machines from Betsoft are this way, beautiful titles with 3D graphics and exciting features.
How To Play It
First of all, you have to use 30 pay lines in Great 88, and this is the fixed part of the bet.
The options given to the player concern the number of coins per line, from 1 to 5, and the value of those coins, where the maximum is at $0.10. Maxing out these options will result in a line bet of $0.50, and a total bet of $15. The minimum bet required is at $0.30.
Graphics in Great 88 will make use of plenty of Chinese images, but for the most part it’s a very typical game for the pokie machine industry.
There are lines to bet on, coins and denominations to pick, and a Spin button to click on. Even though the features might complicate matters a bit, in the end all you have to do is click when asked to click on something, or pick some sort of feature.
Special Features
One of two symbols that has some sort of attached feature, the Firecracker is the one responsible for offering the biggest payouts possible in this game.
There are payouts of 8,888x possible with its help, the best ones that can come out of a regular combo of five symbols in this pokie. Otherwise, since this is a wild icon, it will also be capable of helping out as a substitute, though it will not work with a Lucky Box.
The Lucky Box is an especially interesting part of Great 88. These appear scattered in the game, and in order to get one of their features, you need a minimum of three symbols. They will open up, and they will offer different prizes.
The features coming from Great 88 could include top paying symbols for example, with the costumes of Lions or Dragons, which will combine with what there is already present on the reels.
Another possibility might be the presence of Bronze Coins in those boxes, which give you payouts as high as 15 times the bet value.
If you find Firecracker Wilds inside, then you will see them blow up, and then spreading to one or two additional symbols, turning them as well into substitutes.
Another possibility is that you will get 1, 3 or 5 Jade Coins from the boxes. Each one triggers one free spin, so the range will be between 3 and 25 free spins.
Finally, we have the Golden Dumplings, which are triggers for a Bonus Wheel, which can award 8 free spins, cash prizes or access to another wheel, called Mega Win.
Maximum Payouts
Regular paying combinations will award up to $4,440, the wild being the one offering that much. The bonus features can do better though, with the Mega Win Wheel paying up to 6,000 times total bet, which could mean $90,000 cash.
Summary
Great 88 looks good, can impress with its payouts and has a long list of possible features that you can trigger, so getting bored is not an option anytime soon.
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