Paddy Power Fan-atics Slot
With Paddy Power being one of the loudest voices when it comes to televised sport and Cayetano Gaming being the provider of a number of exclusive games to the popular Irish casino site, it was only a matter of time before the two companies combined to produce a top-notch football slot.
With Paddy Power being one of the loudest voices when it comes to televised sport and Cayetano Gaming being the provider of a number of exclusive games to the popular Irish casino site, it was only a matter of time before the two companies combined to produce a top-notch football slot.
An Open Goal
As with all Cayetano Gaming titles, Paddy Power Fan-atics is an incredibly easy game to get to grips with, with all paylines being fixed and players only having to choose how much to wager on each spin. Coin amounts start from as little as £0.20 (£0.01 per line) and range all the way up to a maximum stake of £1,000 making the slot ideal for players wishing to utilise bankrolls of all levels.
Whatever price-per-spin they choose to play the game for, Paddy Power Fan-atics offers a generous base game jackpot of 1,000x the players’ starting stake for matching a wild symbol on each reel, with regular payouts starting at 0.7x your bet amount and ranging all the way up to 150x. Prizes are also boosted by the presence of random wilds and instant win bonuses, reducing the overall variance.
Undoubtedly the most enticing aspect of Paddy Power Fan-atics, however, is the free spins bonus feature, during which players can win up to 15 bonus games with a randomly increasing multiplier. This enables them to get their hands on some big wins and more than makes up for any losing runs.
World Cup Fever
Although not exactly visually stunning, Paddy Power Fan-atics features pretty clean graphics and a range of unique symbols that perfectly capture the mood of a major tournament. Higher value icons include vuvuzelas (yes, really… sorry about that!), cans of beer, novelty hats and the World Cup itself, with wilds being denoted by three fan icons – Ireland, England and Scotland (some creative license on that last one, eh guys?).
Unfortunately, when you drop further down the paytable the reels are also filled with regular Ace-through-9 playing card symbols, which diminished the quality of the overall theme somewhat. Nevertheless, the background features a stadium and the statue of Christ The Redeemer, giving the slot an unmistakably Brazilian aesthetic and ensuring players are fully immersed in the soccer theme.
Sounds in Paddy Power Fan-atics are fairly minimal, with crowd ambience being audible whenever the reels are spun and a range of sporting sound effects being used to greet winning paylines. These include blasts on a horn and the crackling of fireworks and smoke bombs, with a special piece of music featuring during the free spins bonus. All in all, this makes it a fairly engaging slot for players.
Fan Favourites
The bonuses in Paddy Power Fan-atics come in two main forms; one a free spins feature that is activated whenever three or more football scatter symbols appear on the base game reels and the other a randomly-activated feature that awards bonus wilds and cash prizes after non-winning spins.
The first is undoubtedly the more generous of the two and requires players to pick a football to unveil the number of free spins that they’ll receive. The reels then begin spinning automatically, with a randomly increasing multiplier boosting winnings and subsequent footballs adding more free spins.
The random “smoke bomb” bonus, meanwhile, is occasionally triggered after a non-winning spin. When this feature comes into play, one of three things will happen – either a football boot will be flung at the reels awarding no bonus, a series of smoke bombs will hit the screen turning any symbols they touch into wilds or a football will streak across the reels awarding a random cash prize.
Big Game Temperament
Overall, Paddy Power Fan-atics is a fairly enjoyable slot that features enough in the way of bonus features to keep most players entertained. Though the sound and graphics are perhaps not as impressive as those featured in other Cayetano Gaming titles, the slot is still nicely presented and the promise of random wins and a 1,000x jackpot makes it a fairly rewarding game to get stuck into.
