Big Bass Raceday Repeat

Big Bass Raceday Repeat: Slot Overview

That Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom duo, huh, it seems as if they're not trying to catch fish, they're having a punt at the race track, or sometimes even taking in boxing. In this instance, we're catching up with the studios trackside in the online slot Big Bass Raceday Repeat, for some more reeling in horse money symbol prizes. Repeat is an apt word in this case as well, since the features, stats, and gameplay have all been pulled in from fellow slot Big Bass Reel Repeat.

The same view greets players as was found in Big Bass Day at the Races and Big Bass Return to the Races, except the action takes place at a different time of day. Instead of clear blue skies draped above a gorgeously kept piece of green turf, the sky has an orangey, salmon hue, as if the sun is dipping at the end of the raceday. The rest is about the same. The bearded fisherman has changed his outfit so he's more trackside appropriate, and there are horses, jockeys, so yep, we're at the races all right.

Big Bass Raceday Repeat gets a classically set up 5x3 gaming area with 10 paylines to evaluate winning combinations of matching symbols. Reel Kingdom has used a highly volatile math mode, available in three RTP variants, where the most generous value is 96.51%. Three ante bets and three feature buys accompany the game, where the base stake range is $/€0.10 to $/€250.

Lower pay symbols are 10-A card ranks, awarding 5 to 10 times the stake when landing 5 OAK. Then come horse racing money symbols, binoculars, beers, boxes, and champagne on ice, awarding 20x to 200x the bet for 5-of-a-kind. Wild symbols only appear in free spins, where they are able to substitute for all symbols except scatters and money symbols.

Big Bass Raceday Repeat: Slot Features

The base game has nothing extra to mention, so we need to wait till 3, 4, or 5 scatters hit to trigger 10, 15, or 20 free spins for anything really special to happen. If exactly 2 scatters hit in the base game, there is a chance a third scatter is brought into view randomly, either by a respin sequence or by another one just appearing after the spin result. Before free spins start, players pick a card from 12 cards to possibly reveal modifiers:

• More Horses! - More money symbols are present, with a higher chance of bigger values.
• Higher Multipliers! - Multipliers awarded at retriggers increase to x4, x6, and x20.
• 3 Wilds to Retrigger - Only 3 wilds are needed instead of 4 to retrigger the feature. Also, with this modifier, awarded multipliers are active from the next spin, not from when the next batch of spins begins.
• MEGA - All 3 modifiers are active.

During free spins, each wild in view collects the values from money symbols also on the screen. The horse riding symbols are money symbols, and they come with values of 2x to 5,000x, and may land as 2x2 or 3x3 giant symbols.

Wild symbols are collected when they land, and every 4th collected wild retriggers +10 free spins, with a multiplier for money collection during the retriggered spins of x2 for the second level, x3 for the third level, and x10 for the fourth level. The round cannot be retriggered after the fourth level.

Randomly, when there are wilds in view but no money symbols, money symbols may appear at the end of the spin. Or when there are money symbols but no wild, a wild may randomly be brought into view by a lasso. Lastly, when there are wilds but no money symbols, a stampede animation may change all symbols on screen except wilds into something else.

Ante Bet & Feature Buy

Big Bass Raceday Repeat has three ante bets. At 1.5x the stake, the chance of triggering free spins is higher, while the 1.6x the bet option means that at the end of free spins, there is a chance the Repeat feature starts the bonus again, but keeps the current win. At 2.5x the bet, the chance of triggering free spins is higher, and the Repeat may occur when a bonus round ends. There are also three feature buys. Paying 100x buys a free spins round, or paying 160x buys free spins with the Repeat at the end of it. At a cost of 1,250x the bet, free spins can be bought that guarantee the MEGA modifier.

Big Bass Raceday Repeat: Slot Verdict

The challenge when reviewing a new Big Bass slot, whether fish or horse-based, is trying to think of something to say that hasn't been said on numerous occasions before. The studio has made a lot of these sorts of games now, sorry for stating the obvious, so maybe the inhabitants of Reel Kingdom HQ also struggle to come up with a brand new Big Bass experience. Again, more obviousness, but Big Bass Raceday Repeat isn't a slot that players won't have really seen before either, since it takes the skin of the Big Bass Races offshoot, and marries it to the gameplay of Big Bass Reel Repeat. In other words, Big Bass Raceday Repeat feels very much like a case of filling the production numbers with any old thing in order to prevent the Big Bass juggernaut from losing momentum.

And so, Big Bass Raceday Repeat keeps the wheels turning, but it wasn't the most thrilling instalment. The action it is able to deliver is fine, so players who enjoy a bit of money symbol collecting with the chance to apply multipliers to the values can find all of that here. The bonus repeat idea is quite interesting, but you have to pay extra for the privilege of that possibly occurring, which puts a slight damper on it. The modifiers are fine, too, can't complain about higher multis and fewer wilds needed to retrigger free spins, all capped by 5,000x winning potential. All up then, Big Bass Raceday Repeat provides Big Bass fans with yet another helping of the highly successful formula, just don't expect to walk away from the track having witnessed something utterly unique.