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This is our favourite part of the month. Where we get to break open the new NetEntertainment slot video and figure out whether to be excited, bemused or horrified.
A quick glance at the video for the Tornado Farm Escape Touch slot tell us that we are probably going to sit uncomfortably in that middle category.
Because this is certainly a little different for NetEnt slots and between us, we are not 100% sure what to make of it.
Watch the video and see what we mean.
Breaking down the video
Ok, so this is a 5 reels, 20 paylines game with wilds and two new features. That’s about the only thing we can be certain about.
The genuinely weird theme
Look, we review mobile slot games for a living. We are use to strange barnyard antics. Just the other day we were reviewed the Crazy Cows slot where loved up bovines jump off roofs to impress a selfie loving bull.
Weird comes with the job. There’s only so many slot themes out there.
What we are uncertain about is this Orwellian Animal Farm cartoon setting, where the animals are so repressed and exhausted from hard work, they’d rather jump into a tornado than continue in their awful slave like existence.
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Not as bad as all that?
Granted we may be reading a little too much into this. And once you see the five reels, the theme is more funny rather than a comment on greed an injustice in the American farms.
Thank-fully, in the NetEnt mobile phone slot & tablet version you don’t get the weird intro. So maybe just pretend the animals got caught in the Tornado by mistake? And are going to die a horrible death imminently?
Yeah, no scenario ends well.
Tornado Farm Escape two new game bonus features
The good news is that Tornado Farm Escape video slot has two new bonus game features that are a little unusual.
No ‘traditionally’ triggered free spin games though, though you do get re-spins in the base game, much like the Starburst Touch and Jack and The Beanstalk slots.
Except not really.
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The tornado bonus feature
It took us a little while to figure out what triggered this bonus feature, but see those little clouds with either a cold blue arrow pointing downwards or a hot warm arrow pointing upwards?
Well as any good Meteorologist will tell you a cold front with a warm front… blah blah blah… get the cold symbol on reel 1 and the warm symbols on reel 5 and you’ll trigger the Tornado.
Two random symbols will be picked and this Touch slot will keep re-spinning for as long as those symbol show up. Each collected symbol gives you instant cash.
This Tornado Farm Escape Video shows a 46x your bet win. We suspect this is at the higher end of the scale.
The storm feature and the wilds, wilds, wilds
Having watched the video a few times, and looking at those ‘Mega Big Wins’ in the little 2 minute video, we’d say the bigger wins in the game will come with the wild symbols.
Specifically the random wilds created by a storm. It could happen at any point, anywhere in the game, and you could get anything from 2 to 5 extra wilds on the reels.
Though NetEnt would have us believe that this is a ‘new’ feature, we’ve seen this used in a very similar way in the online game Wonky Wabbits and their Frankenstein slot machine.
Today’s weather: A cloud of confusion with a hint of sun
We are genuinely not sure what to make of NetEnt’s new mobile slot for 2015.
It’s going to come out as a mobile and tablet slot at the same time as online. So that’s good. It means you’ll be able to play whichever way you’ll want when it’s released.
On the other hand, we suspect getting those two symbols on reel 1 and 5 might be difficult, meaning that the free re-spins will be rare, leaving only the random wilds to entertain.
Perhaps, it will have some good wins as a general standard? Without seeing the paytable, it’s hard to say.
But the simplicity could be an advantage. Bringing games back to basics is never a bad thing, after all, one of NetEnt’s most popular games of all time is the classic slot Jackpot 6000.
Where can I play Tornado Farm Escape?
Leo Vegas mobile casino gets all NetEnt games one week before everyone else on mobile. So if you want to play the Android or iOS mobile version, and be ahead of the crowd, that’s where we would go.
However, if you want a selection of good mobile casinos to see who gives you the best offer, we are also particularly fond of Guts Casino who give you 15 free spins no deposit on Twin Spin, or BGO mobile casino, who are a newcomer with an unusual loyalty program to challenge you.
The choice is yours.
