Break Away Slot

The only 'break away' that I have liked so far is the song by Kelly Clarkson. My women that broke away I didn't liked, the women that got away too I didn't liked, now this Microgaming game, if it wants to break away from me, that I like. If it doesn't break away from me, then I will. Well, what do you know, an ending before a beginning, of my review that is, but never mind. Sometimes, I do like to start from the back. Hahaha.

I can't remember now how many of such similar games I have already encountered from the stable of Microgaming games. Seems like a thousand games already! Always with the same game design - 3 reels of Stacked Wilds on reels 3, 4 and 5, with Wilds that don't pay or double wins, with payouts that are almost forever low, and games that usually give me a pain in my-you-know-where! Microgaming, the Master of recloning, the Master of lazy game designing, heck, the Master of not good everything, as far as I am concerned!

If you've played Cashapillar from decades ago, if you've played Cool Wolf some years ago, if you've played Football Star, Rugby Star, Cricket Star, the moon and the star, then consider yourself as having played this Break Away game too! There's nothing different between all of them, just the pictures and the icons, but all performing in about the same way, mediocrely. And of course, none of these games are my favourite. They never will be either.

As I've said, the Wilds don't pay anything, they only come Stacked on reels 3, 4 and 5, and substitute for other symbols except for the Scatter symbol. 5 Scatters pay 250x the total bet. 3, 4 or 5 Scatters award 15, 20 or 25 free spins with an increasing multiplier on wins. No retriggering is possible. The symbols themselves pay from 10x down to 1.6x the total bet. Is that any good? Aargh!

40 Extra Wilds on the reels? Yeah, right. I can put 400 Extra Wilds on the reels, but if most winning spins are only paying 25% - 50% of your bet, what's the point?! That random Smashing Wild feature in the base game, well, it has a guaranteed win no doubt, but have you kept a record of all its payouts? No right? Well, most of them pay peanuts! Just to add one extra feature into an otherwise monotonous repetitive game play. The Free Spins game? Hmm. No retriggers possible. 2 Scatters pay nothing. Every first win pays x1 your bet. The x3 or higher multiplier if lucky only you will get. From several Free Spins games, not even one 40x bet win I could get. Break Away is yet another Microgaming game I would rather forget!

I cannot say for myself that I am a big fan of hockey but I do love what Microgaming has done when they created this slot. There are some features in this game that are really great addition to it. All of the symbols are made of ice hockey players, referee and gear. This is yet another 243 ways to win so it is easier to win a prize while playing it. I like that this game has rolling reels. This means that the symbols will crumble and move down allowing you to hit a winning combination. There are wilds on the second, third and the fourth reel. This way you get more chances to land some good symbols with a combination with wilds.

There is also another feature which is called the Smashing Wild and it appears during the base game. Some players smash into a reel and they turn the symbol into wild. This feature is again available on the second, third and fourth reel.

And, there is also my favourite feature in Break Away and that is the free spins round. As soon as I started playing the game I got 15 free spins. During the free spins round the reels change into blue. I got 31.52 win the first time I triggered the first spins. I won 25.60 next time and this time I also got three scatters during the free spins but unfortunately you cannot retrigger them. I cannot say that I had a huge win during the free spins round but I had some wins from time to time. During the free spins, the rolling reels are possible too, but unfortunately I was not that lucky. What I like about this game is that there are small wins that keep your balance on a decent level and for that reason this is a game that I would gladly play again.

Break Away it is game made by Microgaming. I am not like sports themed slots too much to play such games usually, but of course I tried this game. Also recent rugby star is almost same as break away slot.

I like how this game looks. I did not like hockey and have zero knowledge about it, but I like that symbols here looks great, lot of colors.

I like that there is 243 lines, and stacked wilds on reels 3 4 5. Also wild could appear on reel 2 in special feature.

I like smashing wild feature. It is can trigger any random spin during normal play. During this feature it will make on of reels wild, but not first.

I like that there is avalanche system. Winning symbols pays, and disappear and from top you got new symbols. And since on reels 3 4 5 wilds are stacked a lot, you can get a lot of winning avalanche spins. A bit bad that there is no multiplier in normal play for it.

I like freespins feature. It is can be triggered when 3 or more scatters appear on reels. It awards from 15 freespins with rolling reels (like in immortal romance and thunderstruck II). It means that avalanche system will have multiplier during freespins, up to 10x.

I like this game. It is interesting to play, but I just not ready to play it a lot, very fast it starts to be boring for me. So usually after catching freespins or win more than 50 bets I just leave this game alone. I never had more than 100 bets wins in this game, but it is possible, especially during freespins. Normal play usually pays good with 30-50 bets wins in short amount of spins, but after such lucky streak I am usually just leave game.

I could thumbs down only low payouts and took one star for that.

Another 243 winning way with 5 reels video slot from famous Microgaiming software. Not many people like to play this kind of slots as I have read, just because they cant win anything, I in the other hand love to play this kind of slots. I just enjoy playing this kind of games and there are few very similar if not the same, just because they changed the symbols and everything else remains the same, including the Rolling Reels, the wilds even the free spins feature is completely the same.

The theme about this game is Icy Hockey sport,well never been fan of any kind of sports and specially not this one or maybe for the fact, that this game is not well known in my country, who knows .On the screen you will see Hockey players and their equipment, the Hockey Judge the Hockey Puck which is the scatter symbol and must admit playing all their similar games I find it most difficult to trigger the free spins feature in this game.

I like this game, because you find anything here, like Scatter symbols, Stacked Wild symbols, Smashing Wild Feature, Rolling Reels Feature they are all part of this game. Even as I mentioned the free spins can go up to 25 free spins, well that depends how many scatters will be triggered during the base game.

Playing the base game what I liked is the Rolling Reels feature, but they do come along randomly, so you never know what you will hit next, but having all three of them on the second, third and fourth reel, we are talking for some really great win, even with a minimum bet, although I always play this games with 2 euros bet bet, thinking if I trigger the free spins feature, which are awesome, because the winnings goes up to X 10 multiplier.

I am big fan of this game also for Cricket Star, Rugby Star and Cool Wolf game and I know they are completely the same, but having really nice wins of one of them will recommend this game, because it has potential of big wins, good luck!

I really love this game despite the fact it’s never really been very luck for me. I think that just seems to happen sometimes, you come across a slot game that you just find fun and enjoy playing despite the fact that it never seems to give you a huge payday…. I suppose the key to that is somewhere in the variance and the way they design these games to make you think that every next spin could be the one that lands you with that massive win. Kudos to the designers of these games and in particular those who design the mathematics models!

A great thing that I remember straight away from my time playing this is that the scatter symbols pay really quite well – you receive five, fifty or 250 times your bet for 3, 4 or 5 scatters respectively, and that’s before the bonus round even begins where all subsequent rolling reels wins have additional multipliers (up to a massive 10x maximum!!) as well. You’d think I should have had a huge win on this by now with these things in mind, but sadly not!

I do think that having to bet £0.50 as a minimum is a little bit prohibitive for some sessions – for me at least anyway – so this game may not suit everybody, especially because it is just a 243 ways game and most of those charge just £0.30 as the minimum. There definitely is a higher chance of hitting big wins in the base game mode though that’s for sure, and in the right circumstances it is actually possible to get all of reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 fully wild, although its something of a legend if you ask me – I’ve seen a screenshot though I’m sure the odds are enormous, I’m certainly not banking on seeing this happen in my lifetime!

I can understand that having stacked wilds on all five reels would possibly make it very hard to design an effective “rolling reels” type of game, but I still can’t help but feel it is a bit of a cop out on this game! So often I will get reels 3, 4 and 5 full of the wilds, but because there are no matching symbols on the first two reels they are completely useless and wont even roll a single time. Super, super frustrating!

This is a video slot game created in Microgaming and comes with 243 pay-lines. For the theme is selected Hockey sport. As in south-east of Europe, this sport is not as popular as for example in northern Europe or North America, for me this sport is total unknown. But of course, that's no reason not to try a game which has this sport for a theme.

From feature here you have primarily a wild symbol that can cover the entire 2, 3 and 4 reels. Then, there is a feature called Smashing Wild, when over the middle (third) reels appears wild symbol. All this gives you the chance to and during the regular game to have some bigger wins. But of course the biggest wins you can have during the free spins bonus. Depending on the number of scatter symbols you can get 15, 20 or 25 free spins.

Interestingly is the following solution too, that all the symbols that are in the winning line simply blow up and are replaced by new symbols. This is interesting but not original. I saw this in many other slot games. The graphics here are on a high level with excellent animations. The sound is also good, and I suppose realistic. I say I suppose, because I've never watched either live or on a video a hockey game. When it comes to my experience with this game,

I played it only on the Microgaming multi-player tournaments. On the Go Wild and Wild Jackpot casino there are tournaments with this game that are repeated almost every day of the week. These are free roll tournaments where the first 9 players are rewarded with bonus money. At one opportunity I won even the first place in this tournament and 35 euro bonus money.

For the end as I usually do, I'll rate the game. After a short thinking I decided for Break Away to give 7 out of 10 stars...

Break away it is ice hockey theme online slot by microgaming, which also available at quickfire for sure, and this is similar game to cool wolf and soccer star.

Break away slot has 243 lines, and generally this slot is interesting because it is not like immortal romance type of slots, and there is some interesting features.

During base game there is smashing wild feature, it is same one as at cool wolf and soccer star - one of middle reels like 2 3 or 4 can turn to wild. Feature can award good wins, but you for sure need other wilds to have good payout, otherwise you will see something like 5-20 x total bet, but if some other wilds, payout can be higher, but of course nothing huge happens. There is also rolling reels feature of course, nothing interesting about it during base game, because generally it can give someting like 2-4 rollings with wins like 15-20 x total bet. In total not bet, but usually it is just low wins.

Freespins feature can be triggered by 3 or more scatters. By the way, unususal thing here is that for 2 scatters there is no payouts, probably someone will not happy with that, but from me it is big thumbs up, and i like when scatters have such payouts. During freespins rolling reels faeture have multiplier, and can award up to 10x multiplier for wins.

In short , i do not like this theme. Yes, i am from russian and do not like ice hockey, my friends sometimes laugh on this, but really not very interesting for me theme, never watched it, and slot is less played for me from all such slots by microgaming. You can expect same features like cool wolf and football star.

I did not like ice hockey theme, really, small but still thumbs down from me.

The software that is powering this game is called Microgaming and the theme for this slot is ice hockey. I love the music in the game and the design is pretty good as well. This slot has 5 reels and 243 paylines and the minimum bet that can be placed is 0.50$ while the maximum is 50$.

The game is pretty interesting and fun to play but bear in mind that you need some good money to start with the actual play unless you are really lucky. In the game we have the symbol Break away which represents a wild and will substitute for all symbols but of course not the scatter. The cool thing about this wild is that it can appear stacked on reels 2, 3 and 4 which can of course mean some pretty good wins if everything aligns perfectly.

We also have the smashing wild feature where hockey players will crash into reels 2, 3, 4 and basically that will result in a guaranteed win, although rolling reels feature cannot appear with this one. Also there is the scatter in a shape of a hockey pack of course and 3 or more are needed to trigger the free spins. In free spins you can be awarded with 15, 20 or 25 FS depends on how many scatters you hit; also in free spin rolling reels is featured. So basically rolling reels will award consecutive win and a change to win up to 10x multiplier during those free spins which is pretty awesome to me.

Overall this is a really good and well thought game, where the hockey spirit is really captured and felt through the game in both ways that is depending if you are losing or winning. 7/10

To me the slot “Break Away” sometimes gave and sometimes took. It is true that, in general when it gave this happened while I was playing for 1 Euro spin (by chance) and the most rewarding win was when I had about 64 Euro. Equally true is that when I started to play the game at 1 cent/payline (50 cents /spin) I won frequently 5-7 euro from quite a few lucky spins, so I found myself always in advantage. I had also an unpleasant moment when I had a minus of more than 15 Euro, because after all, this slot has a minimum bet of 50 cents/243 ways to win that is somewhat a big bet. But here the game is pleasant and in my opinion, sometimes you can win enough to be happy and stop playing, and in other conditions the losses may sum up (as I said) to more than 15 Euro.

Briefly said, “Break Away” slot from Microgaming is kind of a “Football Star” (also found in Microgaming). Although several months have passed since I played last time at “Football Star”, in my opinion these two games are made about on the same template, which at the time when they were released was a great success. Just as in “Football Star” there is a random feature when two players (that collide on the ice) transform an entire reel into wild with a guaranteed win. It is possible that this win to be minimal (only 30 cents) but rarely one can win also up to 10 Euros. Much the same happens with Free Spins, because quite often you finish this round with about 10-15 Euro (even if there are present Trailing Wilds and increasing multipliers unfortunately about half the spins are losers). But after all, “all is well when ends well” and “Break Away” is really a slot where you will lose or win too much only if you do not know when to stop and the play frequently brings you with the money at the starting amount.

Because I am not a big fan of this sport (Hockey) I avoided long time to play here, but now after I tried it I can say that the slot is nice and welcoming. The rating it receives is slightly bigger than the average, equal to the rating I gave to the “Football Star” slot.

The slot is a bit too much like “Football Star”. I understand that Microgaming wants to provide more slots alike, but some variations are always welcome.

I've always been a big fan of the "Rolling Reels" feature in games such as Thunderstruck2 and Immortal Romance, but I didn't often choose that particular feature unless my bankroll was running low, because the variance is much lower than the other features on offer - rolling reels was usually the "safe bet", if I really needed to be certain of some kind of win as opposed to the possibility of nothing.

As a result, I didn't get to play this type of game nearly as often as I would like at Microgaming casinos, so I was thrilled when I first saw BreakAway - it was offered as a tournament game at the time - and I saw that it featured the rolling reels mechanic in the base game!

I made a small deposit of £40 and fired up the game at my favourite MG 32red - I was instantly disappointed to see that the minimum bet was 0.50 rather than the more usual 0.30 for a 243 ways game - I assume this is because of the rolling reels, but nevertheless, its a concern if you like to low roll much of the time like myself.

Being a UK citizen, I don't really know or understand much about hockey, but thankfully you don't need to in order to play this game! The symbols are well drawn, the animation is smooth, and the speed of play - especially with quick spin activated - is excellent. Typical Microgaming quality as usual!

It wasn't long before I hit my first free spin feature - this is identical to the base game except there is an incrementing multiplier up to 10x for each subsequent win that occurs on the same spin as a result of the rolling reels. There are stacked wilds on reels 3, 4 and 5, and if you should be lucky enough to catch these during the free spins, along with a decent placement of the first reels, you can really hit super big in this game.

Those stacked wilds are also available in the base game though - and there is also a random feature that can occur after a winning spin where 2 players will appear on screen and turn a random reel into a stacked wild.It is possible for this to happen on the 2nd reel, and I have seen a screenshot of somebody who got this in combination with the stacked wilds on reels 3/4/5 for an enormous payout of over 2000x bet!

It's not my favourite MG game, but I have won a decent amount from it - as well as several "Power Play" tournaments at the Fortune Lounge group of casinos - so I certainly have a soft spot for this game. Note that "Football Star" is, I believe, very similar to this game as well, if that theme suits you better.