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Overall impression
| Game Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Ocean Magic |
| Software: | IGT |
| Game Type: | Video slot |
| Paylines: | 50 |
| Progressive: | No |
| reels: | 5 |
Where to play?
Theme
Ocean Magic sees IGT return to the nature-themed which has served them well in the past. This new game details various fauna which can be found in the ocean, including but not limited to whale sharks, starfish, clownfish, sea turtles and seahorses.
Staying away from the sharks and surfer symbols of similarly themed pokies gives this pokie game a friendly feel about it, even if some generic and predictable imagery does make an appearance, such as the ever-present sunken treasure chest symbol.
Developer
IGT has a history of developing two kinds of pokies. Firstly, there are those which are created from scratch, solely for the online casino world. Then there are those which have been ported over from the land-based casinos of Las Vegas and elsewhere.
Ocean Magic is the former, having already had a successful if brief run in arcades and brick and mortar casinos across North America. How well it will fare in the digital gambling sector remains to be seen.
How to play it
Online pokies from this developer generally tend to be somewhat inflexible in terms of what you can and cannot do with wagers, and so it will prove to be the case with this pokie. A nifty fifty lines are present on the 5 reels, although you’ve got no choice but to play with them all.
Stakes, therefore, range from a not-so-cheap $0.50 per spin, up to the considerably costlier $1,500 per spin. Should you choose to play with Ocean Magic’s bonus (Bubble Boost) feature, wagers range from $1 a pop up to $3,000 a spin.
Special features
Wild Bubbles: Wild Bubbles come in the form of a wild feature. At any point in the game, at least one (on occasion more) bubbles will appear on the screen, making their way up the reels on a spin. This feature can see bubbles turning other symbols into wilds, although if it appears on an Ocean Magic title symbol, it can turn all the symbols around it into substitute icons. These symbols tend to stick around for a couple of spins, too.
Bubble Boost: Earlier, we mentioned the Bubble Boost feature. This feature costs double your stake (so be wary of triggering it). What it effectively does is give you an added chance of landing more bubbles on the screen during a spin – up to 7, in fact. Whilst you stand a better chance of winning, the value of the symbols decreases, which makes it not worth your time in our book.
Free spin bonus: Back to those sunken treasure chests. These are scatter symbols. Bagging 3, 4 or 5 of them will offer you 5, 10 or 20 picks on a bubble screen. You can select various bubbles to win free spins or extra picks. In total, as many as 100 free spins can be won with this feature. The free spins bonus is played out without added features, although it can be retriggered.
Maximum payouts
Players are going to want to keep their eyes peeled for the Ocean Magic logo in this pokie. This is the pokie’s best-paying symbol and can deliver wins worth as much as 300 coins in total if you land 5 on a line in either the base game or the free spins bonus without the Bubble Bonus feature selected. If you select the feature, the value of these symbols drops to just 250 coins.
Summary
You may feel differently, but we certainly weren’t huge fans of Ocean Magic. There is too great a drop in the value of the symbols with the Bubble Boost feature activated, and it costs too much in return for what it delivers.
IGT has a knack for adding “payable extras” in their pokies, and they need to stop. There are better pokies out there throwing such features in for far less than what this pokie game asks.
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