Bomber Fruit

Combining two of slot gaming’s most beloved themes, fruit gaming symbols and explosions, Capecod Gaming delivers Bomber Fruit. The Italian gaming design company employs its signature ingenuity in this five-by-three slot. Players should be prepared for win multipliers, explosive wilds, and several bonus features.

Theme

This brightly-colored game has a simple visual approach, which fruit icons appearing against a bright blue background. Gaming symbols include a strange combination of fruits and explosives: watermelons, oranges, lemons, plums, cherries, grapes, raspberries, and a bar symbol comprise the standard symbols, while black bomb wild symbols, red bomb bonus symbols, and fruit basket scatters are the keys to larger payouts. Wild arrow symbols expand to fill several symbols at once, and a giant question mark adds win multipliers to already strong payouts. A sparse musical background is interrupted with massive sonic celebrations when big wins hit.

Betting Options and Functions

Although Capecod Gaming continues to experiment with the inner workings of slot gaming, they seem to have arrived at a somewhat consistent model for their betting structure. There are 25 fixed paylines in Bomber Fruit, with bet per line adjustable from 0.01–1.00 for an overall per-spin bet range of 0.25–25.00 times the betting currency. Autospin is available for up to 1000 spins at a time. Paytable information and game rules in detail are viewable via pop-up menus, while the overall theoretical return to player ratio is a respectable 95.19%.

Features

This slot boasts a rich array of bonus features, triggered by scatter symbols, the red bonus bomb that appears on the middle reel, and available at random.

The prime bonus feature and precursor to free spin mode, Bonus Bomb summons a three-by-three mini set of reels and awards five free spins. It is set in motion by the appearance of the red bonus bomb at the center position on the reels. During this pre-feature, three symbols appear: these can add free spins to the total, increase the win multiplier of the entire feature, and pay out multiple times the bet size. This mini-game determines qualities of the free spin round that immediately follows: win multiplier and total amount of free spins will decide just how profitable the free spin feature will be.

In the Bonus Special feature, triggered by the appearance of three scatter symbols on the reels, a five-by-one mini slot appears. Players are given five free spins: each multiplier that appears on the reels will pay out that amount multiplied by the bet size at which the feature was triggered. Those who up the letters to spell ‘fruit’ will trigger an instant payout of 100x. Finally, the Wild Arrow is the game’s most straightforward feature: triggering an explosion with the gaming symbol that appears on its left, this feature results in a strip of wild symbols that greatly increase the chances of big wins.

Our Take

Bomber Fruit is elegant in its simplicity. Gameplay is so smooth that players may forget just how many features are waiting to be enjoyed. Capecod Gaming has added yet another impressive slot to its catalogue, though it should be said that slightly higher RTP percentages would go a long way towards elevating this game and those like it to another level.