Tiger Claw

Playtech is very good when it comes to their many pay ways collection of slots. You remember buffalo blitz, epic ape and then they released Tiger Claw which is their 3rd release of their 4096 ways slots collection. The graphics on this slot is seriously stunning and with the potential of 100 spins and up to x5 wild multipliers is enough to keep you entertained.

Tiger Claw has an Asian feel to it with a soothing soundtrack playing. Symbols on the reels include Asian style A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 card deck symbols as well as snakes, hogs, bighorn sheep and red pandas. The most rewarding symbol is the white tiger which gives you x7.5 times your total bet. Sounds low does it? Just wait for the free spins feature to experience how good this low pay table can benefit you. The good news is that the white tiger can appear stacked on all reels. To form winning combinations, you need 2 or more adjacent symbols appearing in any positions on starting from reel 1 consecutively to win money. There is a wild symbol which substitutes for all symbols but the scatter. Wild only appear on reels 2 -6 and does not have a pay-out value.

Tiger Free Games feature is triggered by getting 3 or more tiger free games scatters anywhere on the reels simultaneously. Depending on the number of scatters 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters will reward you with 8, 15, 25 or 100 free spins respectively. Landing 2 or more scatters during free spins can award you with more free spins. The amount of free spins you can earn is unlimited.

During free spins the wild symbol becomes the most important symbol. When a wild appears in a winning combination, it will apply a multiplier of 2x, 3x or 5x to your winnings. This means you can get up to a 5x wild multiplier on every free spin. Imagine landing 3 or 4 wilds in one spin and they all multiply each other. Yes, that is the potential this slot has to offer.

Although the slot has the potential, for me Buffalo Blitz and Epic Ape plays better. This slot has a lot of empty base game spins and you do not win that often. I triggered the free spins feature once and won x23 my total stake. In fact, I got more form a base game hit then free spins. This slot just feels a bit tighter.

Buffalo Blitz may have been quite a good hit for Playtech, perhaps that’s why they added one more clone to their game’s portfolio, entitled Tiger Claw. Straight off, just let me say that I’m never a fan of 6-reels 4-rows games, so similarly with Buffalo Blitz, or with Raging Rhino if you wish, such games do not and would not catch my interest, except for a one-try play, simply for testing out sake.

Being a clone of Buffalo Blitz, Tiger Claw share a similar paytable and play characteristics, but with minor differences in the overall payout scheme. If you’re familiar with Buffalo Blitz, then you’d know that the game can be good at times, but with plenty of empty spins. With Tiger Claw, the game goes one step further, it eats even more and pays even less! Basically, if you don’t get many of the Free Spins game, or often enough, then you’d soon run out of your credits real fast!

I’ve played Buffalo Blitz many times before, and I’ve still yet to get any good win from it, but no, I won’t go back to it either! I gave Tiger Claw just one play, one session to see how better or worse it would be in comparison, but sadly enough, but as expected, the game played worse than Buffalo Blitz! I guess this is one clone that was intended to bring in more revenue for Playtech and nothing else!

When the game isn’t paying, there’d be tons of non-paying spins, or spins with useless winning amounts. How useless? Well, lets just say in the region of under 1x to 3x your total bet amount! It made me sick very quickly enough, seeing my balance draining away like water in a bottle with a hole at the bottom! Yep, it was that fast! Thankfully, 2 Free Spins games came before I ran out of my credits, getting retriggers in each of them, but each game paid damn poorly, and my balance couldn’t even get back to half of what it started with!

Comparatively, I would say that Buffalo Blitz plays better, in many ways, but Tiger Claw failed me in everything! The best Free Spins game started with 15 free spins, activated by 4 Scatters, it gave additional 5 free spins twice, yet the final winning was a miserable 43x my bet amount – that’s how bad Tiger Claw can be! Avoid this game if you can!