Bizarre themes are often to be found applied to pub-style fruit machines - perhaps an indication that their designers have been doing a little 'research down the local boozer before getting back to their offices - and Microgaming's 'Game On!' is no exception. The 'Animal World Cup 2006' is the theme of this online fruit machine so it's a graphic fest of Big Game playing the Beautiful Game (Game On! - can y'see what they did there?). Even more bizarrely this fruit machine game's graphics include what appears to be John Motson dressed up like a cast member of 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum', all Kahki shorts and pith helmet. Sadly Microgaming's designers haven't followed through on this to have Mottie commentating on your performance on the reels, which would put a smile on our faces at least!

Right, that's the Game On! 'theme' covered, so what of its gameplay? Well, this footie mad fruit machine has all the classic elements to please players of these games. Three reels, single win line, nudges and holds are all present and correct, with eight symbols per reel to create a paytable that goes from a 2x to 100x multiplier. Game On adds Nudge Peek and a Nudge Gamble option to its features too, giving players more opportunity to apply a little skill to proceedings and get three-of-a-kind onto the win line.

A football is the Bonus symbol to watch for on these reels, and appears as an extra icon on odd instances of the main eight symbols. The ideal is to find three of these balls in view after a spin to trigger Game On's bonus round. Note, you only need to have three balls 'in view' - they don't need to make it on to the win line to count so there are nine possible combinations to get into the feature game rather than one, giving players more chance of going for the goal of the big bonus game. Get a crack at this bonus feature and you're switched to a new screen where there are three potential cash ladders, each represented as a shot on goal by a zebra (in Dutch kit), a laughing hyena (Brazil) and a monkey (In-ger-land!). Just as a side note, we were quite freaked by the cartoon vulture-with-Fabien-Barthez's-head in goal. Scary! Anyway, returning to the game in hand, a player will be given one of these trails to play and must skill stop the light sequence, aiming to get the highest multiplier possible. The Zebra's trail tops out with a 100x multiplier, the Hyena's goal is 250x and the England monkey's got the jackpot of a 1000x multiplier if you're on target there. Lucky players may also find they'll get a further skill stop 'repeater gamble' which will give them another shot at the goal if they can stop it on the 'yes' option. All good fruity football fun!

Game On is another crowd-pleasing online fruit machine from Microgaming, that's easy to play for novices but packs in classic fruit machine features to keep long-standing fans of these machines happy with the result. Whether you win, lose or draw on a spin, we think you'll always enjoy the game that's afoot here. Game on indeed!

Type	Three Reel Single Payline Online Fruit Machine
Reel Features	Nudge Nudge Peek Hold
Coin Sizes	Min: 10p - Max: �10
Jackpot	1000x Stake
Bonus Features	3 x Skill Stop Bonus Trails with repeater.
Free Play Mode?	YES
Software	Microgaming - No Download Required