Jurassic Island 2

Overview Jurassic Island 2

Playtech are back with a sequel to their highly popular Jurassic Island slot game, with this - Jurassic Island 2. As far as players are concerned, they wanted a game that was much the same as the original but maybe with a more exciting top prize. Thankfully, Playtech have listened to this feedback and have created this game with a 23,290x stake per spin top prize, an amount that will get any player’s mouth watering.

Unlike its prequel, this new game has been re-fitted with a new way of winning bonuses which revolves around the wild symbol. This, however, does mean that there is only one solitary feature in this game (apart from the standard wild bonus). This feature is called the Wild Trail feature and is triggered when a specific wild scatter symbol lands on the third or fourth row of the fifth reel. When this happens, a re-spin is immediately granted with a wild locking into a random position on reel 4. If this sequence does not yield a win for you, another free spin is awarded, but this time with a further wild added to the reels. This feature will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Theme and Symbols

Jurassic Island 2 is basically inspired by the Jurassic Park films, where huge carnivorous dinosaurs roam an island looking for unsuspecting human visitors to munch on. This means a screen full of dinosaurs of every conceivable size, dimension, type, and colour. This makes for quite the intense game screen that is sure to pull anyone into the game’s exciting gameplay. Adding to the drama of the game is the jungle-like soundtrack which creates an atmospheric tension.

The background for this slot is a lush green rainforest with towering trees, dense low-lying plants and a thick jungle-like canopy.

The background has clearly been designed with some effort, as the scene has been created with a high level of detail. This scene changes however when you trigger the bonus feature. When you are playing out this part of the game, players are transported to a similar forest setting but the vista is one of fire and mayhem, ramping up the drama of the bonus.
The board on the other hand looks to have been made from a fallen tree, all the textures used for the borders and interior of the playing window are wooden in nature. This fit perfectly with the backdrop for the game.

The symbols unsurprisingly are split into 3 groups: low-paying, high-paying and special. The low-paying symbols for this game are the 10, J, Q, K, and A in card royals. The high-paying symbols on the other hand are comprised of the various dinosaurs that you will see on display during the game. They include the Pterodactyl, Diplodocus, Parasaurolophus, Triceratops, some sort of albino T-Rex, and of course the T-Rex itself. The T-Rex is the most valuable symbol, paying 5x your stake for 5 on a pay line. The specials are the dinosaur bursting from an egg, which represents the wild, and the clutch of eggs which is the special Wild Trail bonus symbol.

Game Play

Jurassic Island 2 is played on a 5-reel, 4-row game board with a maximum of 1,024 pay lines. To create winners in this game, players must match 3 symbols in combination from left to right on the reels. The only exception to this rule is that you only need to land 2 of the T-Rex symbols to trigger a win. To change your betting level per spin, use the bet adjuster tool located at the bottom of the playing window. The betting range for Jurassic Island 2 is 10p to as much as £500 per spin.

Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be accessed by clicking on the settings menu. The spin button is located to the right of the reels. You can set up auto spins in the game’s menu.

The volatility for Jurassic Island 2 is rated in the higher range of the spectrum. The return to player percentage for Jurassic Island 2 is 95.7% which is just under average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 23,290 x your total stake.

Features

This game as we have mentioned only has one feature, yet this feature is quite complex. The bonus is called the Wild Trail feature. It is triggered by landing the special wild trail bonus symbol on the third or fourth row of the fifth reel. Doing so will award you with one free spin with a wild that locks onto a random position on reel 4.

If a win is not forthcoming in this format, then another free spin is awarded, however this time another wild is added to the third reel. If this should again not yield a win, one final spin will be given with one more wild added to reel 2.
With all 3 sticky wilds now in place, you are guaranteed a win. These sticky multipliers it is worth pointing out can also come with their own multiplier values which help boost the size of your wins. The feature ends when you get a win at whatever stage you manage to get to.

Conclusion

Although this sequel doesn’t have the same quantity of features as the original, the feature that is included here is triggered more often, so you feel you are getting better value for your money. The main draw though, as we discussed in the introduction, will be that colossal top pay out of 23,290x your stake.