King Kong - A Prize Winning Slot Game

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In the recently announced Global Online Casino Awards under the aegis of Oggs.com the best online slot game for the year 2008 went to King Kong. King Kong was released by the leading software developer Cryptologic in October 2008. Though the slot game is popular in itself, this award will undoubtedly drive more traffic to it.

The slot game is based on the movie King Kong of which there has been several versions. King Kong is the name of the giant ape originating from the fictional Skull Island and brought to New York where he runs amuck. The first movie was made in 1933. Then a series of sequels and remakes followed. The last movie was made in 2005. It won three Academy Awards for visual effects, sound mixing, and sound editing, all of which are essential ingredients of a good slots game.

King Kong slot comes with an animated introduction, which is a condensed version of the 2005 movie. It is also a prelude to the audio visual effects to follow. Players can see King Kong roaring with anger. The background music heightens the sense of drama. The background image is that of the night skyline of New York with animated search lights. The symbols on the reels are evocative of the King Kong movies and those who are familiar with the movies will simply love them. There is Carl Denham, the movie director who goes to Skull Island to shoot a documentary on King Kong. Ann Darrow is the heroine of the movie and King Kong's love interest. In the 2005 remake Ann was played by Naomi Watts. In an earlier version she was played by Jessica Lange. There is a Ship symbol corresponding to the ship in which King Kong was brought to America.; a Dinosaur as another inhabitant of Skull Island; a Plane because planes were used to subdue King Kong when he was on the rampage; a Handcuff that was unsuccessfully used to tie up King Kong; a Skull symbolic of Skull Island; the King Kong logo and King Kong himself. There is an old fashioned movie camera and movie tickets that further connect the slot game to the movie.

King Kong was awarded the prize for the best slot game primarily because of its excellent bonus round, which is known as the King Kong Smashed feature. In this feature the player is King Kong standing on top of the Empire State building. The planes are attacking King Kong, who has to smash them. For each hit the player gets between 15 and 100 free spins. The game continues till the player has accumulated the maximum possible free spins or has missed thrice. The player can then either play out his free spins or pick one from three mystery bonuses. Either way he adds to his credits.

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