Big Bass Halloween 2

Big Bass Halloween 2: Slot Overview

Benjamin Franklin famously said, '...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes'. If the great statesman was a gambler in the 21st century, he might have added 'and more Big Bass Bonanza slots' to that sentence. Why? Because dear readers Pragmatic Play and partners in virtual angling Reel Kingdom are indeed back with another fishing slot. The title of this one is Big Bass Halloween 2, and it is a Frankenstein's monster of a release, grafted from Big Bass Splash, keeping the original game's stats and features while tearing free the skin to slap a Halloween one on there.

As for the skin, uh huh, we get it, Halloweeny. The gaming grid remains submerged in liquid, a suspicious yellow-hued body of liquid this time, replete with bubbles and fish. The symbols are oh so scarier, too, where royals are patched up with criss-crossing stitches, and the premiums have been swapped around to fit the theme. The freakiest update is the fisherman, who now appears as a chainsaw-wielding maniac. Uh huh.

Stats now, and a solid 96.71% RTP anchors the show, though lower return models have also been made. As expected, the volatility of Big Bass Halloween is high, and its stake range is 10 c to $/€250 per base game round. A free spins bonus buy is available, too.

Played on a 5-reel, 3-row active gaming space, 10 paylines are used to work out the winning combinations, which must begin from the leftmost reel. A payout of 5-10 times the bet is paid for landing a 5 OAK royal symbol win, or 20x to 200x is awarded for landing 5 fish (the Money symbols), boxes, insects, chainsaws, or cars. The wild symbol zombie dude substitutes for all paying symbols, but it appears only in the free spins round.

Big Bass Halloween 2: Slot Features

Big Bass Splash features make a return, including free spins where Money symbols may be collected by wilds, where wilds are collected to trigger extra free spins with Money symbol multipliers, and random reel modifiers may be awarded at the start of bonus rounds.

Free Spins

If 2 scatters hit in the base game, there is a chance the third one is brought onto the reels by a hook or by respins when the scatters on the screen can move down a position without falling off the grid. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters triggers 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Before free spins begin, 0-5 modifiers are awarded. The modifiers are:

• More Fish - more fish are present on the reels.
• More Fisherman - more wild fisherman symbols are present on the reels.
• More Dynamites, Hooks, and Chainsaws - more of these.
• Start From Level 2 - the progressive feature begins at level 2.
• +2 Spins - the round starts with 2 extra free spins, and any retriggers benefit from +2 spins.

During the free spins phase, each landed wild symbol collects the values of all Money symbols in view. Fish Money symbols are worth 2x to 5,000x the bet. Wild symbols are collected, as well. Every 4th wild collected awards +10 free spins and a multiplier for collected Money symbol values. The multiplier is x2 for the second level, x3 for the third level, and x10 for the fourth level. Retriggered spins play after the current batch, and the multipliers apply to the retriggered spins. After reaching the fourth level, no more retriggers may occur. In addition, the bonus round has these features:

• Dynamite Spin Feature - randomly, when there are fisherman symbols on the reels but no fish, at the end of a free spin, fish money symbols may appear in random positions.
• Hook - can randomly bring fisherman symbols onto the reels if there are fish but no fisherman in view at the end of a spin.
• Chainsaw - randomly, when there is a fisherman present but no fish, at the end of the spin, all symbols but fisherman symbols are transformed into something else.

Big Bass Halloween 2: Slot Verdict

As if one Halloween Big Bass clone wasn't enough, we now have two to contend with. While Big Bass Halloween was modelled on the original Big Bass Bonanza slot, Big Bass Halloween 2 is made from Big Bass Splash's parts. Are we experiencing an embarrassment of riches here or a plain old embarrassment? Guess it depends on how thrilled you are by the Big Bass range and your appetite to feast on another, even if it delivers the exact same gaming that's been used in the past. If yes then line up to play Big Bass Halloween 2's wacky remake. If no, then maybe just hold your nose and walk quickly past this rancid pile of foetid dead fish matter.

We are so passed knowing the drill by now that some may find it almost insulting to repeat it all over again. Ah well, let's just say Big Bass Halloween 2 is as good as any other BB slot at dropping money symbols on the reels in order to have wild fisherman symbols scoop them up as any other. No better though, being a repeat performance and all. This one comes with chunky payout values on its largest money symbols, and multipliers are always a plus, no matter how they end up being used. Free spins potentially benefit from pre-feature modifiers, and a 5,000x win cap is a solid amount for a Big Bass slot.

That's it. Big Bass Halloween 2 exists on planet Earth now, and the thought of what might be coming up next in the series is scary to the point of inducing waves of nausea. Fish fans should be over the moon, provided they haven't already over played the mould slot which Big Bass Halloween 2 came from.