Big Thunder Quad Shot has the typical look of an Ainsworth slot game. You’ll see lower value A to 9 symbols which are covered in jungle creepers as well as a totem mask, a snake, a tribal shield and a drum. The best standard symbol is the waterfall which pays 0.2, 4 or 12 times your stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 on a payline.
They’re joined by the gorilla which is the wild which can hit on the middle 3 reels only. This doesn’t offer any pays in the base game but it does replace everything bar the scatter.
The Big Thunder logo is that scatter. Land 3, 4 or 5 of these anywhere on the same spin and you get a payout of 5, 20 or 100 times your total stake as well as triggering the game’s Bonus Reel feature. Your reward is 15 free spins. These take place on a new set of reels where the lower value royal values are removed.
Look out too for the Bonus Reel to the side of the reels. Land a 3x or 5x in the Bonus Reel and all the payouts on that spin are multiplied by the amount shown. Landing 3 Big Thunder scatters will add another 5 free spins to your total.
The paytable is also slightly amended during the feature. There are bigger awards available from the scatter (up to 200 times your stake) and the gorilla wild pays in its own right too (up to 80 times your stake).
Big Thunder Quad Shot also offers the chance to win 1 of 4 jackpot prizes via the Quad Shot Bonus feature. You need to land a 5 of a kind winner plus the Quad Shot Bonus symbol on the same spin. The size of the jackpot is determined by which symbol you landed and whether the combination included a wide. Prizes of £50, £200, £1,250 and £10,000 are on offer here.
If you’ve played an Ainsworth slot game before, you’ll have a good idea what to expect here. Big Thunder Quad Shot keeps to the developer’s usual formula. The design is middle of the road and the soundtrack generic. The gameplay is simple enough but the bonus round offers some decent action thanks to the multipliers.
If you like Ainsworth slot games, then Big Thunder Quad Shot ticks all the usual boxes. If you’ve never been won over by this developer, we don’t think Big Thunder Quad Shot will be the game that does. Therefore I suggest you try Jungle Giants by Playtech which has a lot more to offer graphically and on the feature front.