Wild Water takes its inspiration from the 1960’s surf scene - think the Beach Boys in their pomp. It features a sandy beach, palm trees, camper vans as well as a series of beach bums and surfers. Rather than single symbols, the reels in the base game feature a series of stacked surfer symbols.
These stacked surfers are the key to unlocking Wild Water's two bonuses. The Surf Team Bonus Win feature will award a win of 200 times your stake and is triggered when all 5 different surfer symbols appear as stacked symbols of three on all 5 reels. Any combination of the five surfer symbols covering all the reels will activate The Surf’s Up Bonus feature which will reward you with 20 times your stake.
Wild Water also offers free spins. Look out for the surfer scatter symbol. Find 3 to trigger 15 free spins. 4 will activate 30. Hit 5 and you'll be rewarded with a whopping 60 free spins. The Shark acts as the wild and substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. It gets even more impressive during free spins as if it appears in a winning payline it automatically expands to cover the whole reel. This can create some lucrative opportunities, especially if multiple sharks hit.
Wild Water is a medium variance slot with most wins will coming from the base game. When you do manage to find the free spins, the results can soon mount up though. As you'd expect from a NetEnt title, Wild Water contains great graphics and animations. They've dropped the ball a little with the soundtrack though. The music is fine but the shouts of “cowabunga”, “awesome” and “radical” can soon get a little grating. That's just a minor gripe though.
There are enough features and bonuses to offer plenty of entertainment and with payouts of up to 2,000 times your stake you can certainly float away with plenty of treasure. If you like water-inspired games, you can’t go wrong Novomatic’s Lord of the Ocean and if you like expanding wilds in the feature, there’s no better game than Black Knight II by WMS.