African Elephant: Slot Overview
Casino game maker Pragmatic Play puts its safari hat on
as it heads to the continent of👍 Africa for an online slot going by the name of African
Elephant. It's an honest, if somewhat plain, title describing👍 both the setting and the
main character with just two words. This somewhat plainness spills over to much of the
👍 rest of the game as well, which isn't the most red-hot display of creative innovation
to pour from the Pragmatic👍 Play office. Possibly effective, though, when the extras are
stampeding through, though if you blink, you might miss the Slot👍 Features section where
we dissect the Wild Shape and a batch of triggered or bought free spins.
African
Elephant has a👍 very familiar look, so if you've played an African-situated slot, you'll
probably have a very good idea of what to👍 expect from this one, too. Long dry
grasslands, wild animals, hills, a winding river, acacia trees shielding the
savannah-like huge👍 umbrellas – the works. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and
players partial to some African grassland-themed gaming👍 shouldn't have trouble getting
down with African Elephant's appearance. The same goes for the audio, too, though it's
less rhythmically👍 intense than these types of games often are; quite chilled really,
but the tunes aren't a bad accompaniment to the👍 graphical side of the game.
African
Elephant is available on any device, from tablets, mobiles to desktops and accepts
wagers of👍 20 p/c toR$/€100 per spin. With a 4.5 out of 5 rating, it's a highly volatile
slot creating a maximum👍 return to player value of 96.04%, and there was no mention of
whether this figure changes when buying free spins👍 or not, so presumably, it stays the
same. The action occurs on a 5-reel, 4-row game grid, with 20 unchangeable👍 paylines for
attempting to land pay symbols across.
Pay symbols include J-A card ranks as the lower
value symbols, then animals👍 such as a meerkat, leopard, wildebeest, zebra, and rhino
are used as the high pays. Hitting a five-of-a-kind winning line👍 all the way across the
grid pays 4 times the bet for the low pays, and 5 to 30 times👍 the bet for the highs.
Where elephants come charging into the fray is on the wild symbol and the Bonus👍 symbol.
Wilds may be present on all five reels, substituting for all symbols except the Bonus –
though they only👍 appear on the board via the Wild Shape feature. Should a wild line
hit, a five-symbol version of one is👍 worth 75x the bet.
African Elephant: Slot
Features
African Elephant goes in for the modifier free spins duo of features, where
the👍 modifier in question is called the Wild Shape, and free spins, well, they're just
called free spins.
Wild Shape
On each spin,👍 a chance exists that a shape appears on the
screen at the end of a spin, framing random positions. When👍 the feature triggers like
this, all symbols inside the marked shape are transformed into wild symbols. After the
wild transformation👍 has occurred, win evaluations may take place.
Free Spins
Hitting 3,
4, or 5 Bonus symbols either in the base game or👍 the bonus round itself awards 10, 15,
or 20 free spins, respectively. During the free spins bonus round, a Wild👍 Shape is
guaranteed to trigger on every single spin.
If it's getting all a bit hot out there in
the wild,👍 players impatient for free spins to trigger have the option of buying them
for the cost of 100x the bet.👍 When buying free spins, 3, 4, or 5 Bonus symbols will
land to activate the feature.
African Elephant: Slot Verdict
If getting👍 back to nature
is meant to be an exercise in simplicity, Pragmatic Play has achieved that. African
Elephant is a👍 simple game built around a fairly unsophisticated modifier that can be
found in the base game from time to time👍 or on every single free spin. It's an okay
feature; there's certainly nothing wrong with cramming wild symbols onto a👍 reel set in
the hopes of linking them with a few matching pay symbols. There's not much more than
that,👍 though, so if a lonely added wild feature doesn't get your juices flowing, you
might as well pack up and👍 give African Elephant a miss since that's about all it's got
going from a gaming standpoint.
As a piece of technical👍 wizardry, the Wild Shape isn't
a bad one; pretty basic, though, so it's questionable how long the novelty will last
👍 before wearing thin. The Wild Shape pops up in both phases of play, so that's
something, but it did feel👍 a little bare all on its lonesome. One potential saving
grace is, quite literally, African Elephant's winning potential. The Wild👍 Shape might
not seem all that potent, but apparently, with a win cap of 15,000x the bet set in
place,👍 it would appear that African Elephant is capable of drumming up some pretty
sizable wins.
For what it is, African Elephant👍 is an okay entry in the African slot
genre. It's a game that sticks to doing more or less one👍 thing about as well as it can.
If the Wild Shape seems like a pretty nifty device, then African Elephant👍 should be all
good for a bit. Otherwise, its sparse, almost clone-like feel may struggle to impress.
