ABOUT
Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom take you yet again on a thrilling fishing adventure in the majestic Amazon. Get your fishing pole ready and prepare to lure the biggest catch of your life! Reel your prey using the game’s Ante Bet feature or use the bonus buy and dive head first into the water and enter a 2-stage progressive bonus game.
Betting Options and Bonus Features
Big Bass Amazon Xtreme is built on a relatively small 5x3 grid with 10 paylines in the depths of the Amazon River. One of the game's main features is the Ante Bet, which you can activate before spinning the reels. By enabling this feature, the current bet increases by 50%, and more Scatter symbols are added to the reels, significantly boosting the chances of triggering the free spins round.
As with all games in the Big Bass series, the game is centered around Money symbols, which can appear on the reels during both the main game and the free spins round. They carry a random cash value ranging from 0.2x to 1,000x the bet. There is a random chance that all visible cash values from the Money symbols can be collected and awarded after any base game spin, with a random multiplier ranging from x1 to x50 added to the total win amount.
The game's free spins round incorporates various features from its sister titles. By landing 3, 4, or 5 Scatter symbols, you’ll trigger the free spins round and are granted ten free spins. Before the round begins, however, a Pick feature is activated, allowing you to choose vases that reveal various modifiers or enhancements.
These modifiers can include extra free spins, guaranteed fish symbols, already collected Fisherman Wilds, and the removal of the Lowest Fish symbols, providing a customized free spins experience. The free spins round also comes with four randomly triggered modifiers:
- Random Addition of Money Symbols - Adds a random number of Money Symbols to the reels if a non-Fisherman spins.
- Fisherman Hook - When Money symbols are present without an accompanying Fisherman symbol, a hook will appear and nudge a Fisherman symbol into view.
- Waterfall - Transforms regular symbols into random ones if you have a Fisherman Wild Collector present but no money symbols.
- Final Hook - If at the end of your spin you have neither a Fisherman Wild nor Money symbol, a hook will appear and drag one of the mentioned symbols on the reels.
Big Bass Amazon Xtreme also includes a bonus buy option that lets you skip the base game and jump right into the bonus game. It is located on the left side of the reels, below the Ante Bet feature. It costs 200x your stake and buying it will guarantee 3 scatter symbols on the next spin.
Roshtein’s Take
Big Bass Amazon Xtreme combines A LOT of features from previous games in the series making it into a mini-theme park. It has so many things going on, it almost seems too good to be true. But, somehow, Pragmatic manages to pull it off yet again. The progressive bonuses in the free spins feel extremely rewarding and exciting to look forward to since you only need a few fishermen to retrigger the whole feature and get a sticky multiplier on top.
