Great Wild Elk
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Overall impression
| Game Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Great Wild Elk |
| Software: | Nextgen |
| Game Type: | Video slot |
| Paylines: | 10 |
| Progressive: | No |
| reels: | 5 |
Where to play?
Theme of The Game
Great Wild Elk seems to offer a fantasy theme, even though most of its symbols are simply related to forests and creatures that might live there.
This pokie, which was created by NextGen, manages to offer an impressive design, and it all starts with the gorgeous background image. There, you will notice a huge tree, one surrounded by a regular sized forest, with a path leading up to it and with the Aurora Borealis in the night’s sky.
As for the reels, the symbols there give you a combination of magic and nature, starting with the two fairies, continuing with the huge tree, with a white elk, squirrels, eagles and snakes. The list of symbols concludes with four rune stones, which are oval shaped and colored in red, purple, blue and green.
Developer
With around 100 pokie machines created, and with new ones coming out almost on a monthly basis, NextGen seems to be expanding quite rapidly.
They didn’t start out recently though, they’ve been around since 1999. They were acquired by NYX a couple of years ago, and they seem to have vastly improved their collection of pokie machines since then. Though the present game is an excellent example of a good pokie machine from them, I would also recommend titles like Crocodopolis or Medusa II from them.
How To Play It
Like all pokies which NextGen gives us, you will be required to select all the lines available to you. You work with 10 lines at all times, and so you use 10 coins in all your bets. Your only choice is of the coin value, which will start at $0.01 and be taken as high as $2. The betting range in Great Wild Elk is between $0.20 and $20.
The graphics in the game are impressive, more so than in most pokie machines that NextGen has released recently, and definitely at the same level as any other launched these days.
Special Features
Elk’s Light is a feature that you might encounter from time to time. Triggered randomly, it will turn all the rune symbols present on the reels during that round, into one of the four types of animals. It should give you a much improved chance of getting a higher paying combination formed during that spin.
The White Elk is a symbol that you will not see very often, but which you will be glad to take advantage of whenever it does show up. You get it only on reel 3, and from there it acts as a wild symbol, a usual one which can replace only regular symbols and which doesn’t assist you with a scatter.
The big advantage of that wild is the fact that whenever it helps you form a new combo, it also trigger a feature with 4 to 10 free games.
The value of that combo which triggered the free spins is used as a reward for every single Tree scatter which appears during free spins. Once the free spins are consumed, a re-spin is given for free, and you can keep getting these re-spins for as long as Tree scatters are present in the game.
Finally, we have a scatter symbol, the Tree that is so useful during the free spins. Used as a scatter, on the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th reels, it will give you a 500 coins prize when all four are present.
Maximum Payouts
The scatter symbol’s payout is the one you will be most happy to see. Those 500 coins will mean $1,000 cash, which doesn’t exactly sound like an enticing amount.
Summary
Great Wild Elk does have the features and graphics to make it on your “must play” list. Unfortunately, with that small top prize I doubt it will stay there for long.
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