Ocean Drive - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction 

Saying that Ocean Drive, one of the standouts among our Booming Games slots, has 5-reels and 20 paylines makes it sound like a standard game. It doesn’t convey just how stylish this slot looks, or the thrills you can experience when every reel has its own potential bonus and there’s a free spins round available for the lucky. 

Theme, Graphics & Soundtrack

There’s something very cool about Ocean Drive, despite it being so close to the beach. It’s the combination of atmosphere and soundtrack. This setting could be California or Florida, the breeze ruffles the palm trees that line this broad boulevard, and you can see both the water and the cityscape in the background. A plane sometimes flies overhead. Everything is under a kind of orange haze, maybe sunrise or sunset, maybe the weather, but it makes thing feel quite calm. That’s helped by the fact that whilst there are cars about, there aren’t many people to crowd the street or add to the noise. They’re all on the reels: a woman with a cigarette, a cool dude with shades and an armed man who may be a criminal, or may be a Miami Vice style detective. There’s definitely some kind of story here.

Ocean Drive RTP and Variance

Ocean Drive may have a slightly different RTP in the base game to in the bonus round, but it all averages out to 95.48%. That’s a little low for a modern slot, though not by much, and as always you need to allow for inevitable deviations from the average (whether higher or lower). You’ve also got to allow for the high risk represented by high variance. High variance slots tend to have less frequent wins, though the few wins that do land may be on the larger side. No guarantees, but plan and budget accordingly.

How to Play Ocean Drive

It’s time to take a drive:

1. If you start on the left, as most people do, the first thing you’ll see is your current bet. You can use the plus and minus symbols to adjust it to the most appropriate (and sensible) level for you.
2. It may help to look at your balance at the bottom right corner of the screen. That way you can work out what you can afford to lose. Don’t forget to set some hard loss and single win limits to ensure you walk away relatively happy.
3. Another way to adjust your bet is to click the button that looks like a stack of coins. It will show all possible bet options.
4. This button sits on the right of the screen, towards the top, next to the menu and info buttons. In the menu you’ll find links to game history, autoplay and settings. The info button is where you’ll find the game rules and paytable.
5. Game history is useful for sticking to your budget and knowing when it’s time for a break or timeout. Settings include auto-adjust bet, left-handed mode, spacebar to spin and language.
6. Autoplay allows you between 10 and 1000 automatic spins, or just set it to run indefinitely. You can still include wins, triggered features, single win size, balance decrease or total losses as stopping points, keeping things under control.
7. Should you prefer to stick to manual spins, go back to the main screen and press the big button. It also has a tab which opens options for turbo mode, for 50 automatic spins at current bet, to go to straight to max bet and for controlling sound effects and background music.

Always play responsibly. When the fun stops, stop.

Bet & Win Sizes 

There’s a pretty impressive bet range starting at a 0.20 minimum and increasing up to a 400.00 maximum.

To view possible payouts, look at the paytable. It’ll show the current value of three, four or five matched symbols based on your current bet. With a minimum wager, the maximum prizes look like this:

10 - 0.30

J - 0.35

Q - 0.40

K - 0.45

A - 0.50

Car - 1.20

Woman - 1.60

Shades man - 1.80

Gun man - 2.00

Max-win 443x

Volatility High

Top RTP 95.48%

Ocean Drive Bonus Features

You may have noticed that every reel has its own possible bonus, as displayed above it. These are the cash payout (20x), bonus payout (mini, major or grand), walking wild reel or wild reel. Find the Ocean Drive bonus symbol on one reel and trigger the corresponding bonus.

Free Spins

We love a slot with a free spins bonus. In Ocean Drive, free spins are triggered by the scatter symbol, which looks like a police car:

1 scatter = 8 free spins

2 scatters = 10 free spins

3 scatters = 12 free spins

Ocean Drive Review

Ocean Drive is a slot full of atmosphere and style. The sleek, cool graphics put your right in this world, immersing you in the experience even before you start playing. Then you’ve got the smooth, fun gameplay itself, and the thrill of the many possible bonus features, including an exciting free spins round. It may encourage you to try Gold Hunter from Booming Games, or other slots from the same developer.

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