Australia, the “Land Down Under”, call it what you want, but this wonderful continent still inspires stories about great adventures, gold panning, lovable creatures, sunny beaches, steaming deserts. There are many books and movies made about it, millions of tourists find it an intriguing destination every year, and there’s practically no online gambling software house that doesn’t have at least one game with Australia as its theme. This time, we have a chance to visit the country and explore its gold riches with Vegas Tech’s new release – “Kanga Cash”.

This colorful release is a 5-reel, 25 payline slot, which features all the main symbols of Australia – kangaroos, koalas, but also gold hunters who live in shabby shacks, along with their equipment and highly valuable gold nuggets. In addition, there are special symbols such as wilds and scatters, as well as a bonus feature with instant prizes. This is a nice game indeed, but that’s all it really is – nice. What it lacks is imagination, innovation, player interaction, and the overall impression is that it doesn’t exploit the theme and the graphical resources as much as they allow.

Still, if you’re more into prizes than into fun, “Kanga Cash” is more than recommendable. Still, before you start playing, you should decide how much you plan to spend on the game, or rather invest, because “Kanga Cash” can indeed be rather generous. And the selection of betting amounts is rather big, since you have an option to choose from 1 to 25 lines to play on, and with coin denominations going from $0.01 to $10 per line. With this range all types of players will be satisfied, and it’s certainly more than recommendable to play on all 25 lines in order to boost your winning odds.

Special Symbols & Features:

As mentioned above, the only downside to “Kanga Cash” is the fact that the theme and the features could have been exploited in a much more interesting way. This way, there are two special symbols: a wild symbol represented by one of Australia’s icons, a kangaroo, which serves to replace all other regular symbols on the reels, appearing quite often on all reels and creating a higher number of winning combinations; then, there are scatter symbols, lovely designed shacks, three or more of which anywhere on the reels will trigger a bonus round.

Now, this is where the problem lies. Instead of making the round interactive, allowing players to participate, pick the gold nuggets to be panned, anything of the sort, the Gold Panning bonus feature only lets you watch a gold hunter pan for Gold, bringing you instant cash prizes. Still, the cash prizes can be more than generous, so despite its flaw, this feature is really something to look forward to.

Even though there are things that can be improved about “Kanga Cash,” there are more reasons to recommend it. The slot is “nice” and cheerful and colorful, but above all, its most positive trait is its generosity. And when it comes to slots and gambling, I believe this is a characteristic more important than any other.

- reviewed by www.latestcasinobonuses.com, last updated 2011-05-25.