Jurassic Island Slot Review

There is something we must say about the Jurassic Island slot before we go any further. This is not Jurassic Park, and so we shouldn’t really expect too much from it in those terms.

Ash Gaming (owned by Playtech) have decided to make the slot something closer to their own design, and there are both giant apes, skeletal creatures, as well as many more oddities alongside the predictable dinosaur symbols. This all gives Jurassic Island a Journey to the Centre of the Earth, or Lost World themed to it, than Jurassic Park.

It may not have the graphics of Microgaming’s Jurassic Park slot, but there are certainly decent features for you to enjoy in this game. If you’re not a stickler for having the real deal, then Jurassic Island could be right up your alley.

Developers

Playtech hasn’t had everything to their liking in this slot. Although they do own Ash Gaming, you can see from the design of this slot that it is still very much an Ash Gaming release. Jurassic Island offers players an above average Ash Gaming experience, although with nifty enough graphics.

As far as themes go, no this one isn’t that original. Ash Gaming have brought some new features to the table and that certainly makes Jurassic Island worth a look.

How to play

This is a slot machine carries a total of 5 reels and 25 paylines for you to bet on. You are not going to be able to adjust the number of lines in this slot, which is a bit of a shame, but you can’t have everything can you?

Wagers are forged by choosing the value of your coins and the number of coins you wish to stake per line via the very thematic wagering menu bar. At its cheapest, this slot is going to cost you around about $0.25 per spin. At its costliest, you are looking at wagers of around $125 per spin.

Features

Wild symbols: Players are going to be quite enamoured with the wilds in this game. The Velociraptor wild symbols can expand to occupy whole reels in this game.

They can only do this on the second, third and fourth reels of the slot, though. Velociraptor wild icons also tend to be the best paying symbols in the Jurassic Island slot.

Scatter symbols: Players can use the scatter icons in this game (which take the shape of a hunter) to trigger a free spins feature, or an instant win bonus.

In fact, there are three free spin features which can be triggered in this slot. Players need to land 3 on the reels to activate any one of the four bonus rounds in Jurassic Island.

Hot Shot bonus: Let’s look at the instant win bonus game first. This feature is pretty straight forward, but you will need a steady hand to land wins. With the feature, players can shoot dinosaurs on the screen using their mouse. They can bag wins worth up to 180x in total with this feature.

Free spin bonuses: A total of 3 free spin features appear in Jurassic Island. You will get your choice of bonuses, but each has its own variance level, so that is worth keeping in mind. The Multiplier feature can see players bag between 10 and 30 free spins, with 3x multipliers added to all of their wins.

In the Carnivore feature, players can once again win between 10 and 30 spins. This time, though, they will get to play with just the highest paying symbols on the reels, which can really help your chances of winning decent money.

The final feature is the Raptor bonus. This can see players bag between 16 and 40 spins, with expanding wild symbols capable of appearing on all of the reels of this slot bonus. This gives players their best chance of landing wins out of the three bonuses.

Maximum pay-outs

As you might have guessed, Jurassic Island is a non-progressive jackpot video slot. You can still bag up to 1,000x your total stake by landing 5 raptor wild symbols on a payline, though.

With 25 paylines to choose from, and expanding wilds boosting those wins, you have numerous chances to win the big bucks in this video slot.

Summary

Jurassic Island doesn’t really match up to Jurassic Park in terms of graphics, or popularity. As we’ve said, though, it isn’t supposed to.

This slot is merely supposed to offer you a dinosaur themed adventure game, and one which can see you bag decent wins, enjoy thrills and spills with its features, and boost the profile of Ash Gaming. On all three counts, Jurassic Island succeeds.