Yggdrasil partner, 4ThePlayer, has seen some success with their 90K Yeti Gigablox installment, but we have a feeling that 10000 BC DoubleMax GigaBlox is gonna top that in a major way. It’s the first game ever to pair the two powerful features, which means that you get both massive symbols up to 3×3 in size and a multiplier that doubles per consecutive cascading win. It goes without saying that this is somewhat of a milestone release, and we are surprised that Yggdrasil didn’t want the honor for themselves.
They have generously delegated the task to 4ThePlayer instead, and the creative studio has definitely risen to the occasion. You get colorful animal visuals, and spring shifts abruptly to winter when the bonus round triggers. You’ll get assistance from 2 different Mammoth modifiers on occasions, and more so during the FS feature. The DoubleMax multiplier only keeps building during the bonus round, and it can lead to payoutsup to 10,000x your stake.
You can turn on theGolden Bet featurebetween spins, and it will cost you25 % extra per spinto keep it on. The benefit is that your bonus round chances are doubled. The premium animal symbols pay between 0.4 and 1.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and thecampfire Wild symbolsteps in for any pay symbol to help complete and/or improve wins.Gigablox symbolsup to size 3×3 count as 1×1-sized symbols when part of a win.
The10000 BC DoubleMax featuregoes hand in hand with theCascading Wins mechanic. As the symbols are removed and replaced, the multiplier doubles per consecutive cascading win. A wild symbol will spawn in an empty position before the new batch of symbols drop down, and everything resets between base game spins.
TheMammoth Explode featurecan trigger at random times when you land a non-winning spin, and the wooly creature will then hit the grid to destroy a bunch of symbols. This triggers a new cascade, and you are guaranteed to win when this feature triggers. The doublemax multiplier does its thing when this happens, as usual.
TheMammoth Shuffleis another modifier that can trigger on non-winning spins only, and you also need a 3×3 sized GigaBlox symbol on the rightmost side to get this feature. Once again, the Mammoth wacks the grid, and this moves the Gigablox to the leftmost side for a guaranteed win. The affected reels will then nudge one step to the right on subsequent cascading drops.
TheBonus Roundtriggers when you land3+ ‘free spins’ scattersanywhere in view, and you win7, 10, or 15 free spinsfrom3, 4, or 5 triggering scatters, respectively. The DoubleMax multiplier only keeps building without ever resetting for as long as the bonus round lasts, and the hit rate of the two Mammoth modifiers is also increased.
10000 BC DoubleMax GigaBlox slot also comes with aBonus Buy feature. This means that non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the bonus round for100x the stake. This gives you at least 3 triggering scatters on the spin that follows.
You get a brief and uneventful taste of the base game, before we purchase and trigger the bonus round at 0:24 into the 1:48-minute highlights video. We got the minimum of 3 triggering scatters, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.
Well, it had to happen sooner or later, and it’s actually a bit surprising that it took so long. The pairing of Yggdrasil’s two most popular innovations — GigaBlox and DoubleMax — not only sound good when they roll off the tongue, it’s also a powerful and heavy-hitting duo if there ever was one. The game takes its sweet time whenever you land a win, as the cascading symbol drop animations are not the fastest we’ve seen, but this is understandable given what any cascade can lead to.
The doubling multiplier can reach epic levels sooner than you may expect, but most of the time the process is stopped short after a couple of cascades. This is true in the base game at least, but things heat up when the DoubleMax multiplier never resets in the FS round. The two Mammoth modifiers are helpful as well, as they turn losing spins into winners more often during free spins. 10000 BC DoubleMax GigaBlox combines the best of both worlds in a compelling way, and we have no complaints about the10,000x potentialeither.
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