Jurassic Park Gold

Me slick foxy fans have surely watched the entire Jurassic Park movie franchise. Those are genuinely breathtaking Hollywood flicks on a grand scale, showing the story of how cloning dinos can go wrong. The franchise has made appearances in numerous media, including online slots, with the rights exclusively handed to Microgaming. The biggest studio of them all has released several Jurassic Park titles, including the latest one called Jurassic Park Gold.

It aims to become the best in the series thanks to various features, including Link & Win. Me slick slot spinners will recognize the component from other Microgaming hits. While it has been used many times before, it perfectly suits a slot of the dino kind. The branded dinosaur slot comes with unlockable rows and 40 paylines in addition to hefty jackpots all of me furry slots fans would love to hit.

The slot’s 96% RTP is paired with high variance, and the maximum possible wins are set at 8,000 times the bet. Of course, you can expect plenty of raptor action in it, along with the cast of the original movie.

Jurassic Park Gold is based on the original 1993 hit rather than the new trilogy of movies. There are a few cast additions from the third movie in the franchise, like Julianne Moore's Sarah Harding from 1997's The Lost World. Nevertheless, it's great to see the old gang in action, hunting dinosaurs once again in a dino-park-gone-wrong theme.

The action takes place across 40 paylines on a 5x4 reel set. It’s a pretty straightforward slot with a familiar layout. All the controls are in their usual spots, and the visuals are pretty solid, with lifelike pics of the characters. The soundtrack will keep you on your toes, so you’ll feel like you’ve been transported straight to Isla Nublar.

The movie characters are premiums, paying up to 10x for five of a kind wins. The wild can step in to complete winning combinations, paying 2x or 5x in the base game when it does. It’s also the highest paying symbol in Jurassic Park Gold, offering wins up to 125x the bet for five.

There aren’t many features in the base game except for the Link & Win mechanic. It is triggered by six Powerball symbols. When they land on the reels, they turn into sticky symbols. Once the feature starts, every Powerball that lands turns sticky as well, resetting the number of Link & Win respins to three. Landing 15, 20, 25, or 30 Powerballs will also unlock extra rows on the grid. These come with random cash prizes and jackpots, of which the Mega jackpot pays the maximum of 8,000x the bet.

The majority of slots have one bonus round, Jurassic Park Gold has three. They’re all free spins rounds with different modes unlocked after a certain number of retriggers. The bonus is triggered by three scatters in sight.

• On the first try, you get the Dilophosaurus option with 12 free games and x2, x5, or x8 wild multipliers. The winning potential here is 3,600x the bet.
• After four triggers, you'll get the Veliciraptor round. It awards nine free games with the same multipliers but higher winning potential at 3,650x.
• Retrigger the bonus round eight times, and you get six free spins with the same multipliers and 4,000x winning potential.

If you manage to collect 15 scatter pairs in the Wild Storm meter, you get the T-Rex feature. It’s a single free spin with a guaranteed Wild Storm trigger, turning 1 to 5 reels fully wild.

Finally, the Wild Chase feature can trigger the T-Rex round. If you land a wild in the highlighted position during it, it will cover the whole reel, almost guaranteed big wins.

Jurassic Park Gold is a worthy addition to the dino franchise. It’s got jackpots, wild bonus rounds, and a T-Rex roaming the reels as well. All me players that can’t get enough of Jurassic Park should surely try it. It has potential for T-Rex sized wins in a cool package, so it has my full recommendation.