Big Bass Amazon Xtreme, developed by Pragmatic Play in partnership with Reel Kingdom, takes players on a fishing trip to the Amazon rainforest. The game uses a standard video slot layout: 5 reels, 3 lines and 10 fixed paylines.
The lower paying symbols consist of the standard playing card ranks (10 through A), which pay from 5x to 10x your bet for a five of a kind combination. Higher payouts are offered by the theme symbols, including the Fishing Rod, Toucan, Fishing Backpack and Tackle Box. These symbols can reward players with 25x to 200x their bet for a full line.
The Fisherman symbol is wild and substitutes for any other symbol, except the Scatter symbol, to complete winning combinations. The scatter symbol is a bass. Get 3, 4 or 5 Scatter symbols and the Free Spin round is triggered, with 10 free spins awarded. Get 4 or 5 Scatters and an additional Pick Feature is available with 1 or 2 Boot symbols already revealed.
Before the Free Spins round begins, there's a unique Pick Feature where players select vases to reveal various modifiers that can enhance their Free Spins experience. These selections continue until a Boot symbol is revealed, ending the Pick Feature. Here's a breakdown of the possible outcomes:
- Extra Free Spins: Reveals 1, 2 or 3 additional Free Spins to be added to your total, with a maximum of 6 additional Free Spins.
- Guaranteed Fish: Reveal up to three +1 Fish symbols, guaranteeing the landing of 1, 2 or 3 Money symbols on each Free Spin for the entire round.
- Previously Collected Fishermen Wilds: Reveal up to 3 Fishermen Wild symbols, starting the Free Spins round with up to three previously collected Fishermen Wilds that contribute to the Progression Trail above the reels.
- Remove Lowest Fish: Reveal the Lowest Fish symbol up to 2 times. The first reveal removes the 2x bet money symbol and the second removes the 5x bet symbol. These symbols are removed throughout the Free Spins round.
Another important aspect of the game is the Money symbols. These special symbols can appear on the reels during both the base game and Free Spins, each with a random cash value ranging from 0.2x to 1,000x your bet. There's also a random chance that all visible cash values from the Money symbols will be collected and awarded after each base game spin. When this happens, a random multiplier from x1 to x50 is added to the total winnings accumulated from the fish symbols.
During Free Spins, each scattered fish symbol collects all cash values from the money symbols on the reels. Once the values are collected, the Fisherman symbol moves along a progression path displayed above the reels. Every 4th Fisherman Wild collected triggers the Free Spins round, awarding an additional +10 Free Spins and a multiplier (increasing from x2 to x50 for levels 2 to 8).
To add an extra layer of excitement, the Free Spins round incorporates familiar features from previous Big Bass titles:
- Random addition of money symbols: At the end of the Free Spins round, if there are no Money symbols, Money symbols will be randomly added to the reels.
- Hook: If Money symbols are present without a Fisherman symbol, a Hook animation may appear at the end of the Free Spin, pulling up a random reel to reveal Fisherman wild symbols.
- Waterfall: If Fisherman Wild symbols are present with no Money symbols, a Waterfall animation will appear at the end of the Free Spin, turning all symbols (except Fisherman) into something else.
- Random Hook appearance: At the end of a free spin, a hook can randomly appear, pulling up a reel and revealing Fisherman Wild and Money symbols.
Big Bass Amazon Xtreme also offers an optional bonus buy feature. Players can purchase free spins for 100 times their bet.