Karate Pig

When I see this game, it reminds me of the old movie Karate Kid, which was entertaining to watch. Seeing the Kung Fu Pig in this game reminds me of another Kung Fu opponent, Kung Fu Panda, a very enjoyable and hilarious cartoon movie indeed, that has since spawned more movie sequels and even cartoon TV serials. Well, whoever would have expected big fat panda could be a Kung Fu expert, right? That makes its movies and its serials much more interesting. I could say almost the same thing for this Karate Pig game, in terms of its entertainment value, and a little bit of the hilarious part too. I giggled when I saw the Kung Fu Pig couldn't break another ice cube in the Hammer Bonus game. That was quite hilarious, hehehe.I've played this game many times before, some years back, I liked the game, so I decided to play it again to refresh my memory. I have no complaints on the graphics in this game. They are all very well presented, of nice big icon sizes, and easily distinguishable too. I like that. It's easy on my eyes. The accompanying soundtracks are so lively it suits the mood of the game beautifully, and needless to say, all those happy animal faces make the game so much more entertaining. It's not often that I can praise any of Microgaming games, but this is one of them.The logo 'Karate Pig' is the Wild symbol, pays 50x the total bet for 5 of them, and comes fully stacked on all reels, both in the base game as well as in the Free Spins game. Pity about the very low win value though. There are 2 Scatter symbols in this game. The Pig is the Bonus Scatter symbol, it doesn't pay for itself, but getting 3 or more of them triggers the Karate Bonus game. The Goldcoin Scatter symbol only appears on reels 1 and 5, and getting both of them at the same time triggers 15 free spins with all wins doubled. More free spins can be retriggered. The Kung Fu Pig symbol pays 18.75x the total bet for 5 of them, and all the other symbols pay from 6.25x to 1.12x the total bet for 5 of each kind. Sadly though, the paytable falls into the low category, making really nice big wins so much more difficult to get.In the Karate Bonus game, you pick to play either the 'Pork Chop' or the 'Hammer' Bonus game. Each bonus game advances the belt to the next higher level. Reach the 7th belt level and prepare for a Final Showdown bonus game. I have not been able to reach this 7th level yet, so far, so I cannot describe what goes on or what could be won. More prizes, no doubt, but up to how much I wouldn't know. In the Porkchop Bonus game, you get 3 picks of the hanging barrels to win prizes. In the Hammer Bonus game, you pick one tarp at a time for the Kung Fu Pig to break to win prizes. Picking ends when that ice cube cannot be broken, and this is where the hilarious scene is. Hehehe.

As fun as the game goes, waiting for the Free Spins game to be triggered can be real hard. The Bonus games tend to come easier, but the big win possibilities are all in the Free Spins game, because of the Stacked Wilds on all reels and with all wins doubled. The few Free Spins games that I had only paid mediocrely. The Stacked Wilds just wouldn't appear onto the reels most of the time, thereby not providing the chances for big wins. Only once I got 4 of those Stacked Wilds, which paid me 91x my bet amount, and just short of breaking the 100x win mark. That was my best score so far. Nonetheless, Karate Pig is a good game to play if you're not aiming for sky-high wins.

I don't often bother with low variance games, but Karate Pig has been offered as a tournament game at many Microgaming casinos for a long time now, so I've got to know it very well as a result of participating in these games.There's no question in my eyes that many players will find this game quite dull - the maximum payouts are simply not big enough for some players who crave big payouts. Yet, it is games like this that can be trusted to steadily build your bankroll on a good day, and get you in a position to take on those super high variance monsters such as Playboy and Leagues of Fortune!There are stacked wilds on all five reels, and these drop into view very often - combined with the 40 paylines, you will find yourself winning on many paylines simultaneously a lot of the time. It can become frustrating though when you have what looks like it should be a monster hit onscreen, and it ends up returning just 60x bet or something like that ... it's the same feeling I get when I play recent NetEnt games and somehow five wilds only gets me 50x bet!! (How ridiculous!)The features don't bring much extra potential to the party either - there is a bonus side game, you can choose from two Pick Me style bonuses, it really doesn't matter which you go for though - my maximum win from either has been 120 x bet, and that was definitely the exception. You can more usually expect 50 x or so at best. The second feature is a free spins round - 15 spins with a 2 x multiplier, which I believe can be retriggered as well. This is welcome, and if you were to land a full screen of wilds in this mode you would win the games jackpot. Sure, the odds are perhaps great - but your MUCH more likely to see this, than, for example, a full screen of bars in NetEnts Starburst - one of their much-hyped low variance games. Karate Pig will not win any awards I'd say, but its a solid low variance game with a lot of quirky fun if you fancy giving your bankroll a break from the battering some of MGs 243 - ways games can give!

Karate Pig is video slot with contains 40 paylines. It is powered by Microgaming software. The game is old around 3 years. The theme is nice, about mythical Japanese pig. The main thing that attracted me is stacked wilds symbols. When I played it I had a lot of times wild symbols, but payout was poor. For this game I expected higher payouts for wilds. The game is high variance, so I can't imagine how it is possible to get poor payouts for wild symbols.Maybe big payouts came when you get almost full screen of wilds at free spin feature. This feature is trigger when two shield symbols appear on reel 1 and reel 5. The number of free games is 15 at x2 multiplier. I had some free spins, but I didn't receive any great wins from Karate Pig.There are also bonus feature. Into karate bonus you need to pick something. I don't like this kind of bonuses, I prefer to see more different free spins features than this bonuses. I think this game is good enough to play it sometimes. For me it is not a game that I would play it every time. I saw many other games from this software and they are much better than this one. The game will need many adjustments at paytable to become better than now. I think the main adjustments could be to set some highest value symbols and correct the value for wild symbols. The second I would like to see one more different mode of free games and one bonus game less. I think in this way it could be better. Otherwise I don't know when I will play this game again since I have so many other different options to choose from Microgaming slots.

Karate pig it is not new microgaming slot game. I played this slot for a first time in my life about 2 years ago, and i was impressed how great this game. Intersting that i find this game somehow by random, just clicked on name because i liked it, and i was really impressed.Karate pig has 40 paylines. Good thing at this game - stacked wilds on all reels. Wilds appear very often, but we all pay a price for it - payouts for everything is quite low, only top paying symbol and wilds itself can pay good money.There is no any base game feature, but this does not bad, because generally base game here is perfect. Lot of wilds, awesome animations, great sounds, just really very relaxing slot, not high variance, and just very good to have real entertainment, not playing on slot in hope of big money.Freespins feature is here, scatters on reels 1 and 5 award 15 freespins with x 2 multiplier, nothing fresh or new, but still good to have x 2 wins in a game with 40 paylines and stacked wilds which appears often.3 bonus game symbols activate bonus game. You start from white belt, and there is two bonus games , two are just pick bonus games, which can award not bad prizes, i had 150 x total bet once playing bonus game. And at last black belt you can also win good prizes, fighting with big boss. Funny, nice, joyful, possible to win good money.My experience with this slot is good. Variance is low, a lot of wilds ,sometimes good wins, often features. No weak points for this game. Unlikely it will pay a lot of money, but at least you will have a lot of fun. One of the best game when not hunting for bag with gold.