Bison Battle

Bison Battle Overview

Push Gaming seems to be deeply enjoying the North American Bison-themed slots at the moment, producing quite a selection in just a few short months. This latest in their series is one of the highest quality games so far, with a dramatic background, exciting reels full of fun symbols and a few excellent features. Mechanically, this is a five-reel, four-row game with 20 fixed pay lines. RTP is at an encouraging 96.4%, and the betting range is between 10p and £100 per spin. However, the highlight of this game is the win potential of 50,000x the stake.

There are four features included in this game, beginning with the Bison Clash feature, which is activated when the red bison scatter with an instant prize attached and a red bison with a multiplier land on the reels simultaneously. The value of the instant prize scatter is then multiplied by the multiplier value to give you an exciting win amount. The next feature is the Green Valley feature, which is effectively a free spins feature with multipliers active on the reels. The next feature is the Ice Park feature, which is a re-spin feature with different modifiers. Finally, there is also a bonus buy feature.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for Bison Battle is native American culture with a special focus on the large and majestic bison. The bison is an incredible animal, the males of which can stand 6.5ft tall and weigh up to a tonne. These vast herbivores once roamed the vast grasslands of the American West. However, hunting almost brought the animal to extinction. They now exist in protected herds all over the United States. This game pays tribute to their image as well as a collection of other iconic North American fauna, including the bald eagle and grizzly Bear.

The background for Bison Battle is a rocky, arid environment that forms part of the habitat of some of the animals pictured on the reels. More than anything, this setting resembles the great gorges and canyons that make up the iconic landscape of Arizona. The rocky outcrops, deep valleys, and sandstone rock make this exciting game's grand and impactful backdrop.

The playing board has been styled to look like it has been constructed of a traditional wigwam weaving material.
The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the diamond, the spade, the club and the heart. These all payout at 2x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the Lynx, the Wolf, the Bear, and the Bald Eagle. The eagle is the most valuable, paying out at 50x the stake for the top combination. Finally, the specials are the normal bison wild, the red bison scatter, the blue bison scatter, and the green bison scatter.

Game Play
Bison Battle is played on a 5-reel, 4-row machine with 20 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Bison Battle is 10p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Bison Battle is 96.4%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 50,000x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is called the Bison Clash feature. It is activated when a red bison scatter with an instant prize attached to it falls at the same time as a red bison with a multiplier attached to it. Both bison smash into each other at this point and award you the instant prize amount boosted by the multiplier.
The next feature is the Green Valley feature. This feature is activated when a green bison scatter and any red bison land on the same reel. Again there is a bison clash followed by eight free spins being awarded. The bison wild symbol can then only land on reels 1 and 5 and moves to the other available reel when it lands. The wild bison becomes sticky for the duration of the feature, and every additional red bison that you land during the feature awards another free spin.
Next is the Ice Park feature. This bonus is activated when a blue bison scatter, and a red bison scatter appear on the same row. There is then a clash and a reward of three re-spins. During the feature, the red bison scatter multiplier can only land on reels 1 and 5. On the other hand, Bison coins can only land on reels, 2,3 and 4. These Bison coins represent instant prizes worth between 3x and 2,500x your stake.
Landing an additional bison or coin during your re-spins resets there-spins to three. When a red bison scatter with a multiplier attached lands on the same row as a Bison coin, the red bison moves from right to left from reel 5 or left to right from reel 1. The respective multiplier is applied to the Bison coin values. If the red bison symbol with a multiplier land with no additional Bison coins, the red bison moves across and disappears. The feature ends you run out of re-spins.
Finally, this game also has a bonus buy feature which allows you to purchase access to the two main features. However, this option is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

Push Gaming has done an excellent job here; there's no doubt. The theme is tight and well-executed, the features are fun and lucrative, and the max win potential is really exciting. If we have one minor criticism, it's that the features aren't actually very easy to trigger. Indeed, even after a lot of spins, we only managed to get one or two to happen.