Fruit Burst Slot Machine
We’re used to seeing fruit symbols across the reels of online casino slot machines, and images of plums, cherries, lemons and strawberries have been in play since the first games were developed over 100 years ago. But Evoplay Entertainment, a software company from Malta, has added their own unique flavour to these symbols and brought us the 3D-effect Fruit Burst video slot that adds wild substitutions and re-spins to the mix.
Played out over 5 reels, it’s a 10 payline slot, where standard winning combinations are formed when matching pieces of fruit land across any line running from either side of the reels in an unbroken sequence. Free Fruit Burst video slots can be used for practice, although it’s a pretty straightforward game to learn and the entry point is only 0.10 per spin, an amount that can be raised to a high limit of 100.00.
While the gameplay may be nice and easy, the design is quite advanced, with the symbols set against an animated backdrop of a cocktail bar on a tropical island. Surfboards are planted in the sand to one side of the reels and to the other side, we see a beautiful woman in a tiny bikini slowly dancing to the typically Hawaiian music that plays out as the reels spin.
Bursting To Play
Before spinners get started, it’s worth a peek at the relative values of these fruity symbols and we can see that the cherries and orange are worth 3x, 8x or 15x the line bet when they land in the right places. Next up, it’s the lemon and apple that return prizes of 5x, 10x and 25x, while the blueberries pay out 10x, 25x or 60x.
A tasty bunch of grapes are worth 25x, 60x and 125x the line bet, with the top prizes during normal play coming from a strawberry which rewards lucky gamblers with 50x, 200x and 250x when 3, 4 or 5 stop across a payline.
As winlines can run from both the left and right sides of the game, it’s actually quite easy to get a prize-winning spin, and any time it happens, these a little zesty burst from the symbols that created the combo, which explains the title.
Wild For Pineapples
Although it’s not worth anything on its own, a juicy pineapple symbol has a couple of special bonus treats in store for players who see it landing anywhere on reels 2, 3 or 4. It can even turn up on multiple reels at once and as soon as the spinning has stopped, any examples will then expand up, down or both ways to fill their reels.
The pineapple is wild, so it can act as any other symbol, completing winning combinations when possible. If for example, there’s cherries on reels 1 and 3 across the same payline, in normal play this wouldn’t be worth anything, but if the pineapple has landed on reel 2 and expanded to fill it, players get a win for 3 cherries in a row.
As another example of how this symbol helps out, is if there’s a line of cherries on reels 1, 2 and 3, with the pineapple on reel 4, as then players will win the higher-value prize for 4 cherries rather than 3.
Reel Re-Spins
But that’s not all that this handy pineapple symbol does for punters, as once any new winnings have been added up and paid out, the reels will re-spin for free. Should this create another winline partly created by the wild symbol, the process repeats itself, and this can go on for a third and final time if yet another wild win is seen.
The Fruit Of Your Labours
Fruit Burst has lots of potential to bring in wins, especially as lines run from either side, as this effectively gives players 18 ways to line symbols up, for a minimum stake of just 0.09. It comes with fantastic graphics that look like an animated movie from a major studio rather than a fruit machine, and we particularly like the subtle animations of the girl and the cheeky parrot who sits on top of the surfboards.
Of course, we don’t play real money online slot machines just because they look good, although it certainly helps. We want to get some nice wins from spinning the reels and the Fruit Burst video slot has a high return to player, plus the various extras triggered by that all-important pineapple.
In fact, it’s unusual for a single symbol to have so many duties, making this by far the most important icon to land, but there’s some decent payouts even without it, so players should get reliable wins as these colourful symbols fall into place.
