How do you imagine a tropical island? Long beaches with dusty white sand, clear blue sea, tropical bars with tasty, colorful cocktails, and then in the evening - paaaaaaarty! Party all night long, with great DJ music, dancing crowd, lots of love and joy! If this is your idea of fun, and you cannot just cross an ocean and go to a tropical adventure like this, there’s a solution – Microgaming’s new release titled “Party Island.” The name says it all, so go ahead and give it a try!

This is a bright and colorful video slot played on five reels and nine paylines, and it features very good graphical solution, with adequate music in the background. Its main focus is on an island theme, where you can find a lot of sun, sea, palm trees, disco balls, great sound systems, and fruity drinks. But in addition to this, there are poker symbols as well as special features such as wilds, scatters, free spins, multipliers, and to add more thrill to the game, the creators of “Party Island” decided to introduce a new Gamble feature.

The bet amount range in the slot is huge, thanks to the selection provided in coin denomination section (from $0.01 to $1), the number of coins you can place per line (up to five), and the fact that you can select the number of paylines you’d like to play on.

Special Features:

It is possible to win on this slot, and that’s mostly thanks to its special features, each of which has a multiplier attached to it. Take the wild Party Island symbol as an example – it doesn’t only substitute for all other regular symbols, but it also doubles all wins in which it participates. As for the scatter Mirror Ball symbol, whenever three or more of these appear anywhere on the reels, you’ll be awarded with 15 free spins, which you can also retrigger at any point of the game. In case of free spins, which are not easily activated, all prizes are tripled, so this may result in a very good outcome for player’s balance.

As mentioned above, “Party Island” also introduced Gamble feature, which is rather tricky, and I’m not sure I’d recommend anyone to gamble away what they earned in a game of chance which doesn’t exactly give the best winning odds ever. But if you’re into the thrill, you have two choices in the feature available to you after each win: choose the right card color and double the prize, or choose the right card suit and quadruple the current win. You can repeat this until you reach the gamble limit.

Generally speaking, this is a slot worth trying. It’s fun, it’s lively, and it occasionally pays a nice win. All this makes it a recommendable choice, especially if you miss the warmth of sun in the last days of winter.

- reviewed by www.latestcasinobonuses.com, last updated 2011-03-31.