Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action

Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action: Slot Overview

Hello players, have you ever been dangling your line over the side of a boat, metaphorically, while playing the Pragmatic Play/Reel Kingdom mega hit Big Bass Bonanza and thought, 'Boy, wouldn't it be great if there was a quicker way to break into the free spins round'? If yes, then the studio duo has got your back with Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action, a reboot of the original slot with not one but two ways of potentially motoring away from the base game into the bonus round where the Money symbol collection can take place.

With bubbles framing the 5-reel gaming grid, Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action takes place at sea, just beneath the water's surface, right where fish reside. Like most things in Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action, the graphics haven't changed a whole heck of a lot. In terms of visuals, the thinking appears to be if it's not broken chum, there's no need to change it.

Some of the figures have changed, though, well, the RTP has at least. Where the previous release had a default RTP of 96.71%, the number has dropped a notch or two to 96.5%. The return to player value remains the same no matter how Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action is played, and there are three ways of doing so. One is wagering 10 c to $/€250 per spin, while another is using the Ante Bet, which increases the stake by 50% to have extra scatter symbols on the reels. Rated 4 out of 5, the math model volatility stays steady on a medium-high setting.

As well as hauling in cash prizes, regular wins occur when matching pay symbols land left to right from the left side of the matrix, and ten paylines are built into the 5x3, 10 payline gaming grid. Ten to ace card ranks are the lower paying symbols - all are worth 10x the bet for a five-of-a-kind result. Following them are fish symbols, tackle boxes, dragonflies, rods, and floats, paying 20 to 200 times the stake for five of a kind. Fish are also Money symbols, bearing values of 2x to 2,000x the bet. No wilds appear in the base game, but wilds are instrumental during free spins.

Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action: Slot Features

We all probably know the drill by now. The base game is where players mill about the boat, bait in the water, waiting for something to happen, while free spins are where the cash symbol collecting may begin. The good news for players lacking the patience to wait for a natural trigger is they can now buy the bonus round.

Free Spins

When 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols land in view, they award 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Here is where a fisherman wild symbol is added to the reels. The wild replaces any of the regular pay symbols to complete winning lines. On top of this, when the Fisherman lands at the same time as the fish symbols, it collects each one of their prize values. It is possible for more than one Fisherman wild to appear on a single spin. When this happens, each Fisherman reels in the fish prize values in turn.

Taking things a step further, whenever a wild symbol hits, it is collected on a meter located by the reels. For every 4 wilds collected, additional spins are awarded, and a win multiplier comes into play. This can occur 3 times, and +10 free spins are added each time. As for the multiplier, the first trigger introduces an x2, the next one increases it to x3, while the final is an x10. After the third trigger, no more can happen. The multiplier applies to Money symbol collection wins, not regular line wins. One last point is when a single fisherman hits, there is a chance random fish Money symbols are added to the reels.

Feature Buy

Players can skip the base game bobbing around by paying 100x the bet to have 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols trigger the bonus round. The RTP when using the free spins buy is the same at 96.5%.

Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action: Slot Verdict

There you have it impatient or busy angling gamblers strapped for time. Whether Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action was created in response to user feedback, or as a quick 'n easy way to keep the BBB phenomenon in the public eye, or both, or something else altogether, here we are. For the vast majority of the time, the Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action experience is almost exactly the same as the original's was, including the same 2,100x max win. The main changes are the Ante Bet add-on and the inclusion of a feature buy. In other words, tripping to the Money symbol collection part can theoretically be faster than ever before, though with an extra cost tagged on.

But wait a minute, aren't bonus buys already available in slots such as Big Bass Splash, Big Bass Amazon Xtreme, Big Bass Floats My Boat and others? Well, yeah, but okay, Big Bass Bonanza was the original, the catalyst that sparked the Big Bass movement, for good or for ill, so whatever. Redoing the original with extra betting options makes sense on a certain level, yet in other ways, Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action is a pretty unexciting release. If the bass slot flood hadn't already reached utter inundation point already, it might have been easier to get all whoopty about Big Bass Bonanza Reel Action. But as it stands, it's another fish game, a redo at that, pairing new bits with a fishy stench of unoriginality.