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Slot Review: Great Blue

So many online slots have an aquatic theme, because it seems that us land-dwellers just cannot get enough of the marvels of the deep, blue sea. We play plenty of slot games having to do with life beneath the deep, ranging from pokies themed around fish life to those about sunken ships, mermaids, scuba diving, and sharks. Great Blue is something less than “great,” an ocean-themed slot that falls somewhere on the lower mid-level lineup of similar titles. Big money is the primary attraction to this slot game, as opposed to graphical excellence or any other major redeeming factor of the slot game itself.

Great Blue is a five-reel, twenty-five payline online slot game by Playtech. Coin values start at one cent and range upwards to five dollars, which means that you can play this title as a penny slot of you so wish. Max coins is two hundred fifty, or ten coins per line. That makes the highest per-spin wager one of twelve hundred fifty dollars… a simply massive bet. It is rare that we see a game that caters so thoroughly to those punters at the low end of the financial spectrum as well as those with bigger bankrolls.

Great Blue features an Auto-Spin mechanism, so that you need not click a button over and over again to play. The graphics are just decent, with images of fish on the reels of a plain, blue background. The Killer Whale (orca) symbol is wild, and doubled the payout of any symbol it completes. The oyster with a pearl inside is the scatter symbol. Get at least three of these to win eight free spins at a double multiplier! Find even more oyster shells to win as many as thirty-three spins at a FIFTEEN times multiplier! The maximum payout for this slot game is a staggering quarter million dollars. 

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