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.
