The Makeover of Shaaark Online Slot

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It is a common practice in the online casino industry for software developers to revamp old games. All software developers have at some time revamped popular slots games. Sometimes the makeover involves a completely new look as in the case of Thunderstruck II from Microgaming. Sometimes it involves just the addition of some features. Shaaark is a slot game that belongs to the second category.

Shaaark is a product of independent casino games developer NextGen Gaming. It was launched early in 2010 and licensed to software platforms like Vegas Technology. Shaaark, as the name suggests, has a shark scare theme. The reels are set on a beach. The symbols are well chosen. The wild symbol is the shark and the scatter symbol is the shark fin. Both these symbols show excellent animation. The other symbols depict the damage created by the shark. They include chewed up surf board, no swimming sign and man floating on a tube. The usual high value card symbols are also included. Shaaark has a simple free spins feature. The feature is awarded when three or more scattered Fin symbols appear. 10 free spins are awarded with doubled payouts. During the free spins selected symbols turn into the wild Shark symbol.

A few months ago NextGen Gaming released the makeover version of this slot game titled Shaaark Super Bet. Shaaark Super Bet has been distributed through the GTS platform to popular online casinos like Virgin Casino. The revamped online slot game employs the same graphics and the symbols. In fact at first glance it appears identical as the original game. The only difference is in the crafting of the high value card symbols. They show signs of damage. The symbols are covered in sea weed and some of them are pertly bitten off.

The Super Bet feature is optional and provides benefits to those who activate it. But even those online casino players who do not activate the Super Bet feature can take advantage of some enhanced opportunities. The jackpot payout for getting five wild symbols in an active payline has been enhanced from 4,000 coins to 5,000 coins. The free spins feature has also been sweetened. The winning combinations during free spins with the wild Shark symbols pay out four times the normal value.

The Super Bet feature gets activated by clicking the Super Bet button below the reels. All 25 paylines are enabled and there is an additional bet of five times the line bet. The advantage offered is that even in the base game selected symbols turn into wild Shark symbols. At first this may not seem that much of an advantage. But most players will enable all paylines in any event and hence there is no additional cost involved. Wagering five times the line bet means wagering five more coins, which should be well worth the expected benefit. The Super Bet does not count while computing the scatter payouts.

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