Pandamonium

Everyone's seen Kung Fu Panda, the cartoon film that combines the loveable endangered species with the deadly art of Kung-Fu, voiced by such greats as Angelina Jolie and Jack Black. Perhaps the combination worked so well because the think tank behind the major media presentation juxtaposed the cuddly panda against the deadly art of Kung Fu. We now see that same dynamic bought into play as the international symbol of the WWF becomes a red-faced, rocking, Rock-god (reminiscent of the KISS king of cool, Blackie Lawless himself) Panda in the awesome Microgaming fruit machine Pandamonium.

The machine itself features graphics that are a combination of heavy metal iconography littered with oriental themes. This makes the game itself a very visually attractive medium, and as you'd expect from any fruit machine with pretentious of Rock music themes, the audio ain't half bad either. As with all Microgaming fruit machines the game features the comfortable game mechanism simulating the reel spins and stops that make you feel like you're really sitting at a physical machine. The front screen, so to speak of the machine displays a brightly coloured pay table so you can quickly familiarise yourself with the wins available from the machine, and the whole reel mechanism is framed in flame designs adding to the big stage Rock performance feel to this fruity.

Pandamonium is a well put together fruit machine with 3 reels and 1 pay line putting the game in that universal class where it will suit all kinds of players, as the bonus game (explained below) is enough to keep the serious player's interest in this fruit machine. The reels feature such symbols as the classic fruits with the addition of different coloured guitars symbols with the top prize of 2000 coins (which is very, very good for this kind of fruit machine) being awarded to the player lucky enough to stop 3 pandas on that single pay line.

Like many other Microgaming fruit machines (and those boys really know what they're doing) this game has many other features including a multi-add trail feature to access the bonus game alongside the usual nudges, holds, nudge stack and the intriguing mysterious position feature.

Score any win on the reels and you activate the Pandamonium Pit bonus game. This is a simple bonus game featuring a 20 position trail with a reel in the middle to spin out the number of positions you move every turn. As with all fruit machines the essence of this game is 'do you take the money... or do you continue and risk losing?” as some of the positions contain prizes and others contain booby traps, which may end your game and set your winnings from the bonus back to zero.

As we've said Pandamonium is a simple fruity with some great prizes so there's very little chance that you'll be bamboozled or that your cash situation will become endangered. In fact, you could argue that this fruit machine is so addictive you might not even be bothered to breed!