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SlotsData Maxi Slot Review: Twister

It’s been almost fourteen years since we saw the freaky movie with Helen Hunt (what happened to her, anyway?) and the guy who currently plays the Mormon bigamist on that one HBO show, and we’re still in awe of the mighty power of the tornado. Inclement weather is nothing with which to mess around, and there’s something about tornados that seem especially menacing and terrible to us mere mortals trapped at the whims of nature’s fury. Maybe it’s something about the nature of this kind of event: you can run and hide from floods or fires, but it’s darn tough to get away when the air itself is out to get you! Twister, the online slot game, is a different look at tornados: a funny one. Featuring a misfit cast of stereotypical rednecks, this comical and bright online slot will certainly give you some belly laughs, even if it doesn’t whip a lapful of dollars at you!

Twister comes to us from Microgaming, which has richly earned its reputation as the finest creator of online slots in this day and age. This particular pokey title isn’t what we would call one of the groundbreaking tour de force titles on which the company has staked its reputation and good name, but it is certainly emblematic of the winning Microgaming approach to making great online casino games: take an interesting theme, don’t skimp on the look and feel of the game itself, keep the player entertained, and make sure there’s plenty of cash to be won! Twister follows each one of these rules to the letter, and thereby manages to be a quite excellent way to entertain oneself.

Twister boasts five reels and fifteen paylines of online slot machine gaming action. Coin values start at one cent and range to fifty cents. Even with the max coins allowance of one hundred fifty (ten coins per payline allowed at one time), those players who are minding their bankroll can still really have a good time – and those who are feeling a bit more flush can spring for the full seventy-five dollars per spin for the big chance to win a weighty jackpot! The jackpot in question is fifteen thousand coins. Don’t be discouraged that it only boils down to seventy-five hundred dollars on a maxed-out bet. One of the big draws we saw in this game is the fact that it pays out so often. There is plenty of action spinning around in this Twister, so you need not fret about the fact that it’s not exactly a million-dollar blockbuster!

When you start to play Twister the first time, the ominous crack of thunder in the distance and the sound of wind approaching like a freight train should warn you that something bad is about to happen to the cast of yokels depicted in such loving detail on the reels. There’s a shaggy-coiffed teenager missing his front teeth and donning a trucker hat, a matron with lurid blue eyeshadow and curly blonde hair, an old lady with curlers and a cigarette between her teeth, and a sweet (if simple) looking gentleman with thick glasses and a stained wife-beater tank top. You’ll also see some of the objects that are at danger of being swept up by the storm’s fury and thrown around: a trailer, a gas station, and an outhouse, to name a few.

The grinning blue twister himself is the wild symbol, and can supplant any other icon on the reels in a winning combination with the exception of the scatter symbol. This barometric badass is also the jackpot. So instead of panicking when you see this particular storm a’comin’, take heart! He’s probably blowing some awesome cash your way! The breaking news icon, which is a newspaper, is the scatter symbol. Get three, four, or five of these special images anywhere on the reels during one of your turns to win an awesome prize: twenty free spins! All winnings are doubled during this round, so you have even more incentive to play hard and rub your lucky charm! There is also a gamble feature. If you are feeling bold, take a guess as to whether the next card to be drawn from a virtual deck is going to be red or black. If you are right, you’ll double your winnings. If you lose, well, you’ll zero out your balance. You can keep picking as long as you are right, so intrepid players with a touch of psychic power can really clean up here!

You might say that we were “blown away” by Twister, but that would be a terrible pun. Oops, too late!

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