Added: January 28, 2016
Early next month a beach themed online pokie featuring girls in bikinis will go live at Microgaming powered Australian online casinos. Till Bikini Party arrives, you can bide time by wagering on a similar Microgaming video pokie titled Beach Babes.
Beach Babes creates the perfect setting with a background of sands, sea, sky, clouds and palm trees. The bright and bold symbols add to the holiday mood. Given the name, you expect to find girls on the beach and you will not be disappointed. There are three of them, each with her special interest. The blonde girl plays with the beach ball, the black haired babe is the surfer and the red head is fond of scuba diving. The macho life guard is there to take care of them. The win animations make the scene come alive. The low paying symbols are colourful playing card icons.
But from a gaming point of view, you would prefer the special symbols to hit more often. The Beach Babes logo is the wild symbol with a 2x multiplier property. But it also awards the highest line payouts and starts paying from two of a kind combinations appearing on active paylines. The top payout is a whopping 10,000 times your line bet. This immediately tells you that Beach Babes is a high variance online pokie and you will have be prepared to wager for long spells in order to reap the rewards.
The ice cooler is the scatter symbol. Two or more of these symbols landing anywhere on the reels in the same spin award scatter payouts that are multiplied by the total bet. Five scatter symbols pay 600 times the total bet. The scatter symbols also trigger the free spins feature. Three, four or five scatter symbols award 20, 25 or 30 free spins respectively. The free spins have a payout multiplier of 6 times. This adds further volatility to the online pokie making it suitable for those Australian players willing to take some risk.
Beach Babes is a 25 paylines online slot game. It includes the Microgaming gamble game in which you can try to double or quadruple the payout won in any spin. The flip side is that you can lose the payout if you guess wrong. Beach Babes was itself a makeover of an earlier pokie game Life’s A Beach. The expectation is that Bikini Party will be slicker and with more visual and gaming action.