There’s nothing complicated about Burn ‘Em Up. The visuals are pretty basic. The reels are edged in flames and are filled with an assortment of classic old school fruit machine imagery. The melon, plum, orange and cherry symbols all pay 0.5, 2 or 10 times your stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 on a line. More rewarding are the single, double and treble lucky 7s which pay 11, 15 or 30 times your stake respectively for a 5-symbol combination.
You’ll also create a winner if you land any combination of lucky 7s. This delivers awards of 5, 10 or 50 times your stake. Top of the payers as far as the standard symbols go is the gold crown. This will get you 5, 20 or 100 times your stake if you find 3, 4 or 5 on 1 of the game’s 10 paylines.
By far the top payer though is the rather deranged looking jester which is the wild. This pays 10, 50 or 500 times your stake as well as substituting for all the standard symbols. Landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters on the same spin activates the game’s Free Spins Bonus feature. You can then look forward to 12, 18 or 24 free spins.
The slight wrinkle in the feature round is that wins that include the lucky 7 symbols get upgraded. For example, if you landed a 5 in a row winner in the base game that include 1 single 7, 2 double 7s and 2 treble 7s, then your reward would be 5 times your stake. In the feature, the payout is boosted to that of the top lucky 7 symbols.
In this case, the lucky treble 7 is in play so the reward increases from 5 up to 30 times your stake. Re-triggers are possible here too meaning up to 48 free spins are available in total.
Barcrest has kept things simple in Burn ‘Em Up. The design and gameplay are straightforward. In spite of its name, it’s medium to high variance with wins of up to 5,000 times your stake per spin or free spin available if you fill the reels with jester wilds.
It might be quite the red hot slot game we hoped for but if you like classic fruit machines with a twist, then Burn ‘Em Up is one to consider. For more bonus features and a little more variety, Rainbow Riches MegaWays (from Barcrest) is the way to go.