Fire Boost Pokie
Fire Boost is a series of Poker machines from Aristocrat that share several features and an overall theme. Triggered by a special scatter symbols, players unlock a series of bonus features, and rather than have just a single feature in effect at a time, they run concurrently, which can see win multipliers, expanding symbols, extra wilds and so on, all happening at once.
There are 3 games in this range and in no particular order, Fire Stones uses colourful jewels as symbols, while Fire Spirit is a Native American themed pokie and Fire Charmer follows the popular Chinese theme, with all games featuring 5 reels along with 3 rows of symbols, 25 paylines, and all housed in smart cabinets.
Aristocrat cabinets are designed with as much care and attention to detail as their games, with the Fire Boost range being featured in the Viridion cabinets, which come with a big 22’’ screen that sees the payout table above the main game and an unmissable sign on top to attract players.
The main features are triggered by Fire Boost scatter symbols, although even in the normal run of play, there’s lots of opportunities to land some nice wins. The playing card symbols spin up the lower-value wins, while each game has their own unique picture symbols, including wilds that will act as all except the Fire Boost to help complete winning combinations.
Fire Boost
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Boosts with Fire
The real attraction of these games though is clearly the Fire Boost features, triggered by landing at least 3 of the symbols in any positions on the reels. All the reels will then be filled with images of flames and once they stop, players win either a bonus payout if the symbols remain unlit, or entry to the extra rounds.
The potential features will vary, with treats like wild multipliers and free spins to claim depending on which level players unlock. The important thing to note is that levels work alongside each other, so at the highest ones, players will be seeing multiple features in effect at the same time.
At the lowest level, and therefore the most commonly-seen bonus, players will see the fifth reel on the right side fill with wild symbols, helping players to land 5 of a kind combinations for the bigger payouts.
There’s also wild win multipliers, meaning that anytime the wild symbols works to complete a line, the amount paid out will be increased by 2x, 3x or 5x, while unlocking the next level will see wild symbols stretched across the reels.
When this occurs, any wild landing on the reels will expand across it, hopefully leading to some big wins, and because reel 5 is already wild, and the multiplier is still in effect, the chances of getting a payout are greatly increased.
On top of these, players can then trigger features such as additional free spins, bonus payouts and transforming symbols, where random symbols change into more a single kind, making up some nice winning combinations.
Each of the 3 games has slightly different mixes of Fire Boost bonuses, but they all come with even more rewards if players take an optional ante bet. This costs 15 coins and adds extra free games, bigger bonuses and other useful features, although overall the return to player is pretty similar.
The Verdict
The Fire Boost range comes in 3 attractive designs, and Aristocrat have wisely chosen to have them follow some of the most popular themes, with games based on the topics of Native American and Chinese culture always popular, while jewel-based pokies may be a little out of date, but there’s still an audience for them.
While the standard playing card symbols have been seen on countless games, many people like to see these familiar icons, as they can quickly see which are going to form the lower value winning lines.
The actual Fire Boost features can be highly rewarding, especially as they run together, so players can have 5 levels of extras in play at any single time, which is sure to lead to plenty of prize-winning spins.