Wild Orient

Microgaming has a history of producing games centered around different types of animals, and it's a motif that they've showed up with on several occasions in different ways over the more than two decades that they've been in business. The Wild Orient online slot continues this tradition by offering players a taste of a number of animals generally associated with Asian areas. The graphics in this game work out very well for bringing this theme across, and it provides a solid foundation for building up a good level of gameplay.

Game Format

This game is based around a five-reel, three-row, video slot format. It also uses the 243-ways payout structure. For those who aren't familiar with this structure or who don't know exactly what it means, it essentially turns every symbol into a left-to-right scatter. You can pick up winning combinations by picking out a single symbol from any spot on the reels, as long as they go left-to-right. This isn't the same as a typical payline-based structure, but it does offer a high hit-rate.

Bet sizes start out at the $0.25 level. Everything is based on groups of 25 coins per spin, and you have two basic options on how to manipulate your total bet size. The first option is to change the size of the coin you're using, which ranges from $0.01 to $0.50 apiece. Second, you can bet anywhere from one to ten coins. This gives players a ton of different options to customize their bets down to a fairly precise level, and $125 is the maximum bet per spin as a result.

Note: The payouts we discuss here are going to be based on wagering $1.00 per spin. If you play with a different bet size, the payouts will scale accordingly.

Wilds and Top Payouts

The wild symbol is the Wild Orient slot logo, and it shows up on the second and fourth reels only to give you better chances of hitting winning combos. It substitutes for everything in the game except for the scatter symbol. Since it doesn't appear on every reel, it doesn't have its own set of payouts.

The top regular payout in the game comes from the elephant, and five of a kind earns you a $160 payout. Five of the tiger earns $100 for five of a kind as well. It's worth noting that both of these symbols also pay for as few as two of a kind, and there are no other symbols in the game that pay for just two other than the scatter.

Rounding out the top pays are an $80 win for five of the panda and $40 for five of the monkey. The bird in the water also pays $20 for five of a kind. These are reasonable wins considering they're based around $1 bet sizes, which corresponds to a bet of just $0.04 on each of the 25 virtual paylines for the purposes of the betting structure.

Lower Payouts

Six other symbols show up on the reels as well for lower payouts. The red A, orange K, yellow Q, green J, blue 10 and purple 9 are all stylized in a way that really fits the Asian theme, and it's cool to see that care was taken that they weren't just thrown in without an effort being made to make the symbols make sense.

The wins available are $8 for five of the A or K, $6 for five of the Q or J, and $4 for five of the 10 or 9.

Scatters and the Free Spins Bonus Feature

The statue of different animals is the scatter symbol in this game, and it pays for two or more anywhere on the reels. This is the only symbol in the game that doesn't have to show up left-to-right. There's a $100 win for five, $10 for four, $2 for three and $1 for two of a kind.

Picking up three or more of this symbol earns a set of 15 free spins. What's more is that your wins are hit with a 3x multiplier during this bonus feature, so you'll get a lot more value than usual.

Respin Feature

An interesting feature has been added to this game to give players respin options with certain reels held in place. You can choose the reels to respin, and a price will come up showing you how much it will cost to do so. Only new pays from the reels that are receiving a respin will count towards the payouts, so you can't really game the system by doing a respin on the fifth reel when you had three of a kind wins on the first three reels or anything like that.

Overview

Microgaming's Wild Orient slot has the usual solid graphics and wide range of bet sizes that you'd expect from this company. The animal theme isn't really going to win any awards for originality, but the inclusion of the valuable free spins bonus feature and the atypical respin feature gives this game some pretty solid gameplay overall.

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