Bulls and Bears

This is the game where I’ve really never had a clue what theme it wants to be around. Maybe it deals with ‘stock exchange market’ subject, at least the stocks, gold bullions, stock chart, car, ship symbols imply this theory but why the game got the Bulls and Bears name and what to do with this game the bear and bull character, was always a well-hidden secret and a totally mystery for me, and if I add to this my stupidity to usually confuse it with Microgaming’s Tiger vs. Bear slot, the little chaos in my head when I think about it becomes understandable.

The slot interface is very average at RTG products. Solid layout and design but nothing’s here that would lift it above the other games in any aspects but generally can say some graphical upgrades wouldn’t hurt the game at all.

As almost every RTG slots this game also offers random Jackpots to win and one of them is a local Progressive Jackpot while the other two are the well-known Minor and Major Jackpots. To calculate the value of the best paying 5 of a kind line win we have to meet the two deviant symbols first. Bull and Bear are the Wilds of the game and Bull only appears on the second reel while Bear exclusively land only the 4th reel. Both substitute other symbols (including the Scatter too) and double the prizes if either of them replaces a symbol in a winning combination but if both of them land such winning line the original won amount is quadrupled. So the best line can reward with 10.000 coins in that situation, otherwise this amount is 5000 or 2500 times of line bet.

The Chart, scatter can pay up to 400 (200 or 100) of total bet and also has the function to activate free spins. During that games every wins are tripled and though the feature itself can’t be re-triggered but have a chance to collect more free spins with the appearance on the screen of the previously selected Bull or Bear figure that automatically adds one more spin.

The RTG’s Feature Guarantee option is available here so we can monitor how many spin are needed in the worst case to trigger free spins. Of course player doesn’t need to wait until reach that number, anytime can play and gamble with this kind of fortune wheel to get a possible early entry to the feature.

Though the slot has quite good game qualities I still can’t consider it a great game. I don’t know why but I don’t find it neither amusing nor too interesting and these two attributes play an important part in my judgment. Sometimes I play for it just because its relative good payout and in hoping for some nice profits (and definitely the game has the ability to do this) but most of the time I don’t stay too long simple because the enjoyment factor is very low here for me.