Big Red Pokie Machine
It is one of the biggest pokie success stories in Australia, and here’s your chance to travel to the bush and try and track down some fantastic wildlife in Big Red, the non-nonsense game from Aristocrat.
The five paylines only won’t fill players with a sense of wonder, although the riches on offer in the main game should be enough to turn players around. Graphically it is just your standard Aristocrat pokie, although the Aussie-led theme deserves a thumbs-up.
You’ll bump into all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures that have become synonymous with the Outback, and often it only takes two or more of these on a payline to yield a return. Great!
Aussie Rules
There are nine main game symbols, and many of these are grouped into different pay scales. On the bottom rung of the prize ladder, as ever, are the playing card symbols, and these are grouped into three denominations.
The Nine and Ten earn 5 coins, 20 coins and 150 coins for matching three, four or five on a payline (this is based on the minimum stake amount), while the Jack pays 10 coins, 30 coins and 250 coins respectively. Finally, the Queen and King – as the top of the table – are in a generous mood and pay the best of the lot at 15 coins, 50 coins and 300 coins.
Then we’re onto our animal companions as we journey through the Outback. First things first, there’s the Wild Dog to contend with. Don’t worry though, he’s not as vicious as he looks, and he’ll even deliver a payout for matching just a pair of him (2 coins). Prizes for three (25 coins), four (100 coins) and five (400 coins) are more than agreeable too.
The Eagle will soar before falling onto your reels, and this feathered friend will reward you with 3 coins, 50 coins, 150 coins and 600 coins for two through to five.
Big Red
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And then things start to get really interesting with the introduction of the Wild Boar, and this meaty treat will reward players with some particularly handsome rewards; that’s 10 coins, 100 coins, 250 coins and 1,000 coins to be precise.
Normally, you’d run a mile if you bumped into a Crocodile, but not so in Big Red where this snappy chappy awards players prizes of 12 coins, 150 coins, 600 coins and 1,250 coins. A beautiful bounty!
If you pick up a win and aren’t quite satisfied with the amount, then you could always try and pump up your prize by taking on the Gamble feature. This allows players the chance to either double or quadruple their winnings simply by guessing the correct colour or suit of a playing card. Be warned though: guess incorrectly and you will lose all of your original prize money.
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There are wilds and scatters to keep your eyes peeled for too. The scatter in Big Red is the Tree, and this rewards players with 2x, 5x, 20x and 50x their total bet for two, three, four or five symbols. This will appear on any of your reels as well for optimum coverage.
The wild is the Kangaroo, and this triggers the mighty Big Red feature as it acts as a substitute in any winning combination. The Roo will sub for all main game symbols bar the scatter, and will leap into action on the three right-most reels (3, 4 and 5).
In the Big Red Free Spins round players are awarded five freebies for each of the paylines that are activated by their winning spin, and more free spins can be won by revealing a winning line that is again enhanced by that bouncing wild. Five more free ones will be added to your collection each time.
Big Red, Big Prizes
It’s all about the money, is Big Red. There’s little in the way of pokie entertainment – fun bonus rounds, cool animations etc – instead it is a template that is based on decent-sized prizes through basic gameplay.
Whether that sounds like criticism or praise will depend on your own attitude to pokie gaming, but needless to say the bottom line is that there is money to be made with Big Red and real ones when you decide to play for real money. Get spinning.