Jurassic Park is one of the greatest science-fiction adventure movies of all time. It first hit the box office way back in 1993 and was directed by Steven Spielberg, based on a novel written by Michael Crichton which was released in 1990. The movie was a huge hit and actually became the highest grossing movie release in the world at that time and has spawned several more sequels, with a fourth installment in the works and penned for a Summer 2015 release.
Being such a blockbuster movie, any software developer to create a slot based on it would face a hard task living up to its high standards, but Microgaming have certainly risen to the challenge with the release of their much anticipated Jurassic Park slot machine.
The Jurassic Park online slot machine by Microgaming contains five reels and is part of their 243-ways range of games, like most of their blockbuster games are.
Those of you familiar with Jurassic Park will notice the symbols used include characters and dinosaurs from the actual movie, plus the background music and random movie clips have also been incorporated into the slot game. There are four characters from the movie used as symbols and they are Dr Alan Grant, Dr Ellie Sattler, Dr John Hammond, and Dr Ian Malcolm. These are joined by five dinosaurs – Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, and Dilophosaurus, plus there is also a Mosquito symbol (used to trigger free spins) and the Jurassic Park logo which acts as the games Wild. As you may have expected, Dr Alan Grant is the highest paying symbol in the game and should you land five of him at any one time you will receive 80 credits which is significant when you compare it to the Dilophosaurus symbol which only pays out 12 credits for five of them.
As with all blockbuster Microgaming slot machines, it is the bonus features which truly bring Jurassic Park to life and you can reap the rewards with some very big wins – up to a maximum of 475,000 in fact. There are two bonus features to enjoy which are the T-Rex Alert and the free spins mode, both of which you can learn more about below.
The T-Rex Alert bonus feature is very exciting because it triggers at random, therefore you don’t need to worry about landing a combination of symbols. This feature automatically adds 35 Wilds onto the reels which remain there for a total of 6 spins – offering you the opportunity to land some very large wins.
Next is the free spins mode, which we at www.RealMoneyOnlineCasinos.com are very exciting about, and it is triggered by landing three or more of the Mosquito symbols anywhere on the reels. The free spins mode rewards you with a total of 12 spins, however what is most exciting is that there are five different features to enjoy – all named after dinosaurs. At first the mode you receive will be chosen at random for you, but once you have activated 25 free spin modes you will get to choose the feature you like most (or rewards most).
The first mode is Tyrannosaurus Rex and despite offering no multipliers or bonus symbols it can be very lucrative. The T-Rex can pop up at random to turn reels Wild – and often it is more than one.
Next is the Velociraptor mode which sees Wild symbols split into two and can see you land six-of-a-kind wins which are actually worth double the five-of-a-kind wins, plus there are multiplier Wilds which go up to 6x your standard win.
The Triceratops mode features running Wilds which sees any Wild symbol extended so that it covers the whole reels.
Brachiosaurus mode rewards you with a mystery multiplier on some of your free spins, which varies between 2x and 6x.
The final mode is Dilophosaurus which sees the dinosaur pop up at random and locks certain positions on the reels, turning them into Wilds which remain until you complete the rest of your free spins.
