King Kong is a name that you’re likely to recognize, with more than one popular movie being made on the topic. It’s the name of a huge gorilla like monster, big enough to fight off helicopters or tanks, that is brought via ship to America, and then it escapes and wrecks havoc in New York. Along the way, he kidnaps a beautiful woman, one of the reasons why the military doesn’t have free range when it comes to shooting at him. King Kong movies tend to be big budget blockbusters, the kind of movie that Hollywood revives once every few decades, in order to make a bit more money out of it.
King Kong’s 5 reels get an average number of lines, 25 of them total. Coming from Cryptologic, the game has some of the more impressive prizes offered by this developer, with $150,000 being made available through it. As you play for the big prize, you will find along the way the scatter and wild symbols, free spins, multipliers and bonus games.
Features of King Kong
The usual combo of scatter and wild symbols is present inside, and they will trigger for you the slot’s feature round, plus it will have free games and multipliers for you.
King Kong looks like a total beast in this slot, and it’s not as easy to feel sorry for him as you could in the movies. It acts as the wild symbol, meaning that whenever you get it in the game it is capable of substituting for another symbol and hopefully that will be enough to get a paying combo formed. Since it’s limited to three reels out of the slot’s five, you can’t get paid directly by it, as it doesn’t form combinations of its own. You will find the wild on the reels 2, 3 and 4. The presence of King Kong on the 3rd reel triggers the feature called Kong Kong Goes Ape.
As it usually happens, a scatter is also present, and the logo with “King Kong” written on it does the honors in this case. What I love about the scatter symbol is its ability to offer access to bonus games and prizes, even though its symbols are not on the same active payline. The two types of rewards offered require a certain number of scatter symbols present on the screen at the same time. It starts with two Logos when it comes to cash prizes, with better value gotten from the presence of more scatters. You can win up to 100 times the value of the round’s wager this way, but you need up to 5 Logos.
King Kong Smash
Each feature symbol has its own bonus round that is triggered with its help. King Kong Smash requires the scatter symbol’s presence, the minimum number of Logos being 3.
You choose various airplanes that you want King Kong to attack, and he will try to smash them. The game ends when he has three misses. The more airplanes that get smashed, the bigger the number of free spins you win. At the end of the bonus round, you can either go through the free spins, or you can choose a mystery prize instead. If you prefer the free games, you will have a 2x multiplier along for the ride, to double all prizes.
King Kong Goes Ape
You will also get a feature from the wild symbol, where King Kong needs to appear on the 3rd reel in order to trigger it. The 3rd reel is occupied entirely by wild symbols if that happens, while the 2nd and 4th reels may also get extra wilds. If there are any new combinations, the payouts are awarded again.
Betting options and jackpots
King Kong has a big enough betting range that everyone can afford to play on it. The coin’s value can be as low as $0.01, or as high as $20, the maximum bet having a $500 value because of it.
If you can afford the biggest coin and wager available, you will get a chance at the big prize, worth $150,000. If you don’t use the largest denomination, the value of those 7,500 coins drops accordingly, but you get the same return on your investment as a high roller.
Design and symbols
King Kong has an appealing retro design going on, the city of New York being the background image, while on the reels you get various images from the first half of the 20th century, when the action in it takes place. With steam powered ships and bi-planes flying around, this is not the modern take on the King Kong story that you might be used to. Instead, you get the original here, hence the retro look that I’m so fond of.
Symbols: King Kong (wild), Logo (scatter, 100x the wager), Blonde Woman (7,500x), Man (1,000x), Dinosaur (500x), Bi-plane (500x), Steam Ship (200x), Spider (200x), Professional Camera (150x), Skull (150x), Shackles (100x) and Tickets (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
I have no doubt that King Kong will prove to be a fun slot to play. It’s got the right graphics, the big prizes and a long list of features and bonus games that you can try out. Overall, this is a great design from Cryptologic.
King Kong, the Movie
The slot is based on the action from a movie that was released in 1933, the original King Kong film. The giant gorilla like monster that appears in the movie is called King Kong. Other movies with the same name were released in 1976, and then in 2005, each time improving the graphics and special effects that were involved. It’s been over 80 years since the first movie was released, but King Kong remained a hugely popular character and it was part of various comics, books, rides in theme parks, parodies, video games and at one point a stage play was made based on him.
This huge monster is captured in the movie from Skull Island, where all sorts of pre-historic creatures lived, including dinosaurs. Kong is captured and taken to the city of New York, to be shown off as an exhibit. He escapes though, and wrecks havoc through the big city, until he eventually dies by falling off Empire State Building.
You will find King Kong at any online casino which chooses to use software from Cryptologic, playable either for free or for real money.
