Okay, Rival Gaming has come up with a new, crème de la crème science fiction-themed slot gamefor those with half an imagination or any appreciation for the creativity and hard work that goes into designing an online slot.
A Switch in Time is a 5-reel 20-payline fruit machine bathed in burgundies and gray in its initial design. The game changes, however, from present to past to future, and depending on which time period the slot player is in will determine the attributes of the game.
If players are in the present, they will be with the creator of the time machine in Victorian times. If in the past, players return to the day and age of the dinosaurs; in the future, they discover the future with alien life, making this a three-in-one video slot.
The slot has dreamy upbeat music that welcomes players into a spinoff of the H.G. Wells’ time machine theme from his book, The Time Machine. First comes the present, in it there is a brownish-reddish brunette pining away for her English time traveler. It appears from video snippets that while she waits, our hero is busy trying to turn back the moments since he saw her last.
She stands provocatively in front of a mirror, surrounded by a fancy collection of antiques, including an old timer’s wagon, opera glasses, pocket watches, wind up clocks, a decanter of perhaps sherry or brandy and crystal glasses, a oil burning lamp, a time machine, of course, a wagon, an hourglass, a collection of books and a chest of spare parts for fixing his machine.
Three forlorn pictures of the lonely woman in green moves winners into a free spins feature. The lights of the wagon dim in and out in a startlingly real cast of beams on the reels, a border of what looks like flowers encircles winning frames, but look more carefully: These are tiny gears making the machine work.
The opera glasses catch the light; 3 pocket watches (look carefully for the reflection of the woman inside) will make the hands turn not only on the watches but over the logo of the game.
The hourglass is the wild and 3 time machines on the reels trigger the bonus round. This is when players are transported into the past or hurled forward into the future. The wild hourglass will turn with winnings as well. A winning combination of wind up clocks will get the gears churning not just inside the clocks but out on the borders of the slot.
The ticking of a thousand clocks come from every angle while wicks burn and contract, emitting a glow of white light. On one of the reels is a collection of books and papers that the professor will need. Enter into the time machine once 3 time machines appear on the reels.
Once transported into the bonus round, get the pleasure of pushing the buttons to determine which direction to go, either into the past or future, but beware, the buttons are not labeled and so it will be a surprise!
If traveling backward in time, players will find themselves amongst the long past dinosaur age when man and beast roamed the earth together. These reels have stone tools, Trex, a wooly mammoth, a caveman and cavewoman and their grass huts. A saber-toothed tiger, a teradaytl, and stones with prehistoric cave drawings come to life on the reels.
See the little natives pull back the flap from their grass huts, watch lightning strike when Trex multiplies and the saber-tooth tiger bears his teeth. There is a wild fire symbol, a cave man and woman, both look rabid. The cave man will hackle and turn red or watch the flames dance and the coals glow. The cave woman raises her spear and ushers players into her free spins feature.
Once 3 time machines show up on the reels it’s time to fight off again, but before players can, it’s time to save the village from the dastardly Trex. Choose from guns, spears and flames of fire to ward off the intruder until he crashes to the ground. Each blow will register free points.
The Trex will crunch the screen and the time machine will then go back to the present. After all that primordial life, it’s time to go into the future with wide-eyed aliens with the back of their brains sticking out, crystals, an alien city, space age technology and travel, a radar panel searching for life, jettison out into the galaxy in a futuristic ship with a terminator robot and a punk rocker alien woman who looks a lot like Sinead O’Connor.
A purple gaseous cloud with many spheres is the wild, with turquoise and purple colors taking prominence in between the gray shades of this slot. Players can return back to the present, but first there is a cyber robot war to usher them out once the machine has landed.
Fortunately players get a powerful machine gun and a fantastic viewpoint from which to shoot thanks to alien war technology. It’s a slots game with a full spectrum of viewpoints and enough adventure and features to keep slot players engaged for hours: An inventive idea by Rival, undoubtedly.
26 November, 2009