Hip Hop Opotamus

Rap music and Hip Hop has always been connected with gun toting, jewel wearing alpha males ever since the likes of Ice-T, Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls bought the scene into the age of wealth. However those people who watch the excellent BBC 2 David Attenborough series 'Life', will know that's it's not just Hip Hop that has it's alpha males, as in the first episode they show a hippo lucky enough to have a territory centred in a river where thousands of female hippos come to languish. Attenborough, without a trace of smirk in his voice calls this hippo the 'hippo overlord'. Maybe, just maybe he's the hippo that fronts the fantastic Microgaming fruit machine, The HipHopOpotamus fruit machine.

The machine itself centres around a big purple hippo, who (and you might have guessed this) is the rapper who's delight it is to front the machine. He's a larger than life character who presents the Hip-Hop audio treats that really set the machine apart from others in the Microgaming fruit machine crew. Of course there's the blinging graphics presented in a lush format that you'd expect from any online fruity, giving you an experience that will make this machine more than just a drive by as you'll find yourself coming back time and time again to battle this brilliant gambling game.

Three reels and one pay line form the central fruit machine on this game and whilst the machine lacks wilds, scatters and multipliers you'll still find fun in the extra reel symbols based around the East coast scene's motifs with spray cans, ghetto blasters and medallions. This wouldn't be a fruit machine without the familiar nudges, holds, and nudge bank features that will allow canny fruity playing b-boys and girls to up their wins to the maximum jackpot available of 550 x your coin value.

The bonus game is activated by a familiar numbers on the pay-line system that's a favourite with all fruit machine hustlers around the globe. You simply have to get a trail of 8 or more numbers and boom, you're into the bonus game. This sub game is one of the best out of all the Microgaming fruit machine bonus games and sees you traversing a 49 square board (that's a lot of options for this kind of game) using a fourth reel for a hi/lo gamble which then spills out options for your movement on the board. The game is complex and engrossing with extras like bonus lives and no lose spins which allow you to access some of the game's more interesting sub games such as Rapper's Delight, or Busta Hippo.

HipHopOpotamus is one of the simplest fruities to get involved with don't be fooled by the simplicity as the bonus game should keep experienced fruit machine jockeys coming back time and time again, as its unique grid like feature promises both fun and returns from a very well put together fruit machine. The reel hook here (see what we did there) is the games presentation, which really makes this fruity stand out as an all blinging, all break-dancing gambling game that all levels of player can enjoy.