Around the World Slots
There are quicker ways to travel around the world than booking hotels and purchasing plane tickets: you can play Around the World from iSoftBet instead. You get a charming experience for a fraction of the cost, and you get a vintage environment in which to explore the possibilities of the reels.
The bonus round of this 20 lines slot is arguably its best feature, allowing you to take a lump sum or risk it all in the quest for more treasures. And then you have the inclusion of two wilds instead of just the one, which helps to pad this game out; you can get varied experiences each time. The fact that such a small slot machine can offer that is excellent.
Some of the destinations you’ll see are well known, such as the Great Wall of China, but a lot of the imagery is actually based on the transport used to reach the locations rather than the places themselves. It has a 1940s edge to the aesthetic, with the design of an illustrative quality.
We’re ready for a fresh adventure, we just hope you are too!
Stocking Up
It’s not like travelling the world isn’t going to take a lot of forward planning – if you miscalculate you could end up hungry or without fresh clothes or worse. This is why it’s best to stock up on as much supplies as possible before the journey begins, which in gambling terms means having a punt.
The starting point with iSoftBet, as ever, is very low, meaning you don’t have to move heaven and earth just to experience the fun of broadening your horizons. Laid out on a rather busy control panel, covered with dials and cogs, is where you’ll find the necessary widgets to place your stake. Should you be disinterested in playing it safe, what with adventuring and all that, you can wager as much as €1,000.
We found, on our travels, that there appears to be a complicated and simple version of the controls, which are useful in one sense and very confusing in another. The simplistic ones get you straight down to business, but arguably take out the ability to tailor your game to you, whilst the advanced options feel too overwhelming. There doesn’t feel like there’s a happy medium.
What Sights You’ll See!
So, how do we get the bonus round? Well, it involves getting enough of the appropriate symbols and then having to make a monetary decision. You see, when you trigger the mini game, you can still avoid playing up by selecting the sum of money given, however if you decide to gamble you then get taken to the full extent of the bonus level.
Once there you have to go about collecting items and memorabilia, but all the while avoiding any unsavoury wrecks that might pop up along the way. We found it rather thrilling, which helped us fall in love with this game even more.
Not to worry if this sort of luck never falls into your lap, as there’s plenty of other ways to get your kicks with Around the World, one of them being the logo symbol of the game itself. This can bring in a lot of money, as much as €5,000, however if you get the world traveller icon, you stand to gain even more funds in the form of €10,000. These are also the two tiles we mentioned previously, the ones that act as wilds, thus enhancing your chances to get more wins.
Fancy Another Trip?
Around the World won’t ever be our first choice of game to play, mainly because it doesn’t give us anything we haven’t seen before. That being said, it has proved a lot more entertaining than we thought when we first read the name, which goes to show that you shouldn’t judge a slot machine by its name alone.
When compared with iSoftBet’s other international title, Wonders of the World, this activity is definitely the stronger contender. This is due to both the appearance of Around the World, and the inclusion of bigger and more immersive features.
