Big Break

Big Break is a 5 reel 15 payline surf themed online slot with a monkey theme.  It offers some nice touches, but we found the graphics a little cartoonish and the background music that accompanies the game particularly annoying.  Worth a look, but in our view it's ultimately a rather average online poke.

The team at Microgaming who produced this online pokie has certainly included a number of decent features.  There is a bonus game, free spins, as well as two types of substitute symbols which keep the action going.   The bonus game is triggered by landing a monkey symbol on each of the 5 reels, but the resulting bonus game itself is all too predictable.  The free spins feature offers 15 free spins, but we found it came in too infrequently, which isn't surprising considering the game offers two types of substitute symbols, one of which doubles all wins.bi

Where this game really falls down is in its overall presentation.  It was obviously an intention of the designers behind the game to go for a cartoonish monkey themed look and feel, but it doesn't work and ultimately ends up looking a little silly.  (When was the last time you saw a surfing monkey?) The music that accompanies the game is dire and detracts rather than adds to the players' experience.  In the end we had to turn the music off when playing this game.

Overall, Big Break offers very little that is new or interesting to online pokie player and ultimately falls into that ever growing group of rather average online pokie games.  The only thing we at the Online Pokies Club struggle to answer is why software manufacturers keep producing average run of the mill online pokies.  Surely one great pokie is better than 10 average ones?