Themed around the Pacific Ocean air battles from World War 2, Pacific Attack involves a lot of bombs, pilot themed symbols, uniform pieces, medals and other images that will show you a bit of what it was like going to war. The ocean is an important part of it, but so is the retro design with pin-up style drawings appearing in a couple of symbols. World War 2 is a big part of our history, and we should never forget the sacrifices that our ancestors made. This game will give you a glimpse into one tiny part of the war, the battles that pilots fought over the Pacific Ocean.
On the 5 reels of this Net Entertainment slot you will discover only 15 paylines. Among the symbols there are scatter and wild symbols, resulting in free spins and bonus games. The prizes will get you $20,000 in the base game, with a potential for more during the free spins.
Features of Pacific Attack
The pin-up model used as the scatter, the pilot that acts as a wild and the bomber that triggers the bonus game are the three feature symbols that you will rely on as the game progresses. You will get some serious prizes from them, multipliers and free spins.
Let’s start with the wild symbol first, the bomber pilot that can give you the best prizes the slot has to offer, up to 5,000x when a five symbol combo has only wilds in it. It should be a very useful symbol to have around, the only one capable of substituting for regular symbols, though it still can’t do that for scatter or bonus icons.
The pin-up model drawn in black and white (more like sepia actually) will be just as useful, as it acts as a scatter symbol. Its appearance, in any random position it happens to appear in, will trigger both a prize and a round of free spins, depending on how many times the scatter is present. Two to five symbols are required to get you the prize, whose value varies between 2x and 200x.
Free Games Feature
Anywhere between 10 and 30 spins can be won for free in Pacific Attack, which are better than regular spins, as they also benefit from x3 multipliers which will triple any prize you get from them. The requirement is for three to five scattered symbols to appear, in any random position.
Bonus Game
The Bomber Bonus symbol is the trigger for the bomber attack bonus game. This is a regular symbol when it comes to offering prizes, so it has to form a combo with 3+ symbols, starting from the leftmost reel, to get you access to this feature.
Once the game starts, you will be taken to a screen where a game of Battleship takes place, though not the original version. A group of bombers flies over a hidden fleet of ships, dropping bombs at random over them. Five ships total are hidden on a 10×10 grid. Once the bombers drop their initial load of bombs, you can use your cursor to target additional spots on the map, in order to sink the ships that are already hit, or try to find new ones.
Betting options and jackpots
The coin bet range is rather weird, going only from $0.01 to $0.20, the game preferring to use up to 20 coins for a single payline, instead of allowing bigger denominations. The $4 line bet means up to $60 total, for all 15 paylines.
In exchange, the wild symbol’s combo will reward you with up to 5,000x the line bet, or 100,000 coins. Unfortunately, it means $20,000 cash, no more. The free spins and their 3x multiplier might just triple that amount, if you win it while they’re in use.
Design and symbols
The design that would be considered of good quality in the 40’s is quite different from what people consider modern today, but the pin-up style and the way they used to draw by hand remains attractive to this day. The 40’s design style is the one that is used in Pacific Attack and it’s a perfect fit. The majority of the symbols are objects of some kind, like bombs, mines, uniforms, medals and so on. The special symbols are the ones that tend to have people or bombers in them.
Symbols: Pilot (wild, 5,000x), Bomber (bonus), Pin-Up Model (scatter, 200x triggering wager), Underwater Mine (500x), Parachute (500x), Bombs (250x), Officer Cap (125x), Victoria Cross (100x), Star of Courage (100x), Service Medal (75x) and War Medal (75x).
Is It Worth Playing?
It’s a great title if you enjoy World War 2 and military history in general, but it will be a decent slot on its own as well, with its prize being good mostly if the free spins are in use at the time.
Pacific Attack can be found at any Net Entertainment casino, where you get a chance to play it for real money or in free mode.
