By Doug Holmes
Summary:
- Bullshark Games releases Bullshark Brawls slot
- Min/max bet: 0.10/100
- Max payout: 10,000x
It’s a matter of nostalgia meeting lucha libre in “Bullshark Brawl“, Bullshark Games’ unusual online slot that brings together anthropomorphic sharks, wrestling and multiplier mechanics. The result is a colorful and deliberately bizarre game that stands apart from more conventional slot themes.
The game may remind some players of the wave of human-animal hybrid cartoons popular in the 1980s and 1990s, including Street Sharks, Biker Mice from Mars and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Bullshark Brawl adopted a similarly unconventional approach, putting shark wrestlers in masks into a Mexican wrestling-inspired setting.
Behind the strange theme is a 5×4 slot grid with 20 paylines. The high-volatility games has a standard RTP listed at 96.27%, with a lower RTP version also available.
The maximum potential win is 10,000x the bet, although reaching that figure requires the bonus features.
The paytable starts with traditional 10 through A symbols, followed by a bull referee and four shark wrestler symbols.
Five matching low-value symbols can award up to 2x the bet, while premium combinations pay between 5x and 50x. Wild symbols substitute for other symbols and can award 100x the bet when five appear in a winning line.
Special Features
Between zero and three multiplier symbols can randomly become unlocked on each base-game spin. These symbols can be regular paying symbols or wilds and receive multipliers ranging from x2 to x100.
When an unlocked multiplier symbol contributes to a winning combination, its multiplier is applied to the win. Wild multiplier symbols can affect every winning combination in which they participate.
If two multiplier symbols are involved in a win and one of them is a wild, their multiplier values can also be added together before being applied.
The multipliers reset after each base-game spin, making their appearance particularly important to the game’s momentum.
Bullshark Brawl also offers two main free-spin rounds. Rookie Rumble is triggered by three scatters and awards 10 free spins. The bonus begins with one unlocked multiplier symbol, while additional scatters can add extra spins.
Four scatters will trigger King of the Ring, which will in turn award 12 free spins. It works similarly to Rookie Rumble but starts with two unlocked multiplier symbols, giving players more multiplier potential from the beginning.
During the bonuses, multiplier unlockers can activate additional multiplier symbols, while booster symbols can increase existing multipliers by between x1 and x25.
Before entering a bonus round, players can gamble for improved starting conditions using a wheel containing blue, green and red sections.
The game also offers feature-buy options. BonusHunt FeatureSpins cost 3x the bet, while Shark Slam FeatureSpins cost 50x and unlock all three multiplier positions with random values.
Players can also directly purchase Rookie Rumble for 100x the bet or King of the Ring for 200x.
All in all, Bullshark Brawl is certainly not a conventional slot. Its combination of masked sharks, wrestling imagery and multiplier mechanics gives it a distinctive personality, even if the unusual theme may leave some players wondering exactly how all the pieces fit together.
