Arctic Bear Slot
You haven’t felt true cold until you’ve experienced the sting of the arctic air in Arctic Bear, a 5-reel slot machine from MultiSlot. In this title you find yourself blanketed by ice and snow, only friendly polar bears keeping you company during the night and guarding your igloo during the day. They’re your bear guardians, if you will.
The intensity of the graphics aren’t as cool as the idea of the theme we thought up in our heads, but it’s pretty close and does a good job enticing us further in; if anyone can get us to the arctic it’s this brand. They’ve tried to make endless nothingness encased in snow as appealing as possible by including a selection of free spins, mixed in with some decent paying symbols.
Our thermals may be on but we’ve not quite warmed up to this title yet, which is why a local guide will prove invaluable to us. Over the next couple of sections we’re going to generate some heat to keep ourselves warm, with this online activity acting as our kindling - if it impresses us the fire will roar to unfold heights, if it doesn’t, we’ll freeze to death. Fingers crossed that doesn’t happen.
All Wrapped Up
Thinking about how cold it can get and then actually feeling it are two very different things, with the issue coming in the form of us never imagining the cold cold enough. Fortunately for us, MultiSlot built us some nice reels in which to hide away, allowing the howling winds to whip past us.
Inside this cocoon of warmth, we found up to 25 winlines, allowing for a better and toastier experience – more of them ensures the action of the game can really heat up. Should you find that you want to test yourself, you can click on the numbers around the grid and decrease the total.
Another way to test your metal and resolve is to up your bet, increasing the risk factor (not that that’s needed when you’re in the arctic). The starting point for all bets is 1.25, which makes up your total bet not simply a section of it; this number can be increased by tapping the Total Bet widget. You can work your way through quite a few figures, but your final pay-in can never exceed 125 credits.
For those of you that like letting the software take charge, making you a mere spectator, you can employ the Autoplay at a moment's notice – decide between 10 and 100 rounds instantly played without any input from you. It’s basically the future, if we keep letting machines do all the work for us.
Frozen Money
Having to thaw out your cash prize really makes you appreciate a warmer climate, where you only needed to dip into your wallet to feel the texture of the notes, now you’re having to melt ice cubes and pray for a good return.
The most any player is going to ever get from this game is a base jackpot of 750 coins, which isn’t going to be easy to pin down thanks to it being attached to the illustrious five wilds. Wilds don’t appear often, let alone five of them! But now you know what to expect if they do, making the process of waiting all the more tedious…
Partnered up with the wild, bringing in the fun, is the roaring polar bear scatter symbol, this can land anywhere in a group of three, four or five. Even though you’ll receive free games regardless of which of those amounts you bag yourself, getting more matches equals a higher volume of free games. MultiSlot has provided 5, 15 and 30 spins for players to work towards, with them all offering a retrigger feature.
Frostbite
Normally prolonged exposure to such extreme cold would be an issue, but thanks to the wonder that is the internet, we’re still toasty and frostbite free. We’ve also been freed from the bonds of our money, having bet a lot to try and get Arctic Bear’s riches, most of the time failing miserably.
This slot machine has a low variance in what it offers, but a medium volatility in terms of the gameplay, which makes it an interesting experience for players. Personally, this feels like one better suited to gamers who have played slot machines before, but any newbies out there are welcome to brave the elements if they feel the fire in the bellies is strong enough.
