Published on 18th November 2012 by Becky Mosley

So just where are these online Christmas slots that we’ve been nervously waiting for. Microgaming seems to care not for Noël novelties this wintertime, as the release of their new underwater slot Octopays shows. Microgaming has also released and icy spectacle of a slot during the same week. Now before you get all carried away, this particular frosty ice fest has nothing to do with snow either, rather, and more bizarrely, Microgaming has decided to invest their new slot in an ice hockey themed game.

Entitled Break Away, this ice hockey themed online slot is destined to be a big hit amongst gamers in the United States, Canada and Northern and Eastern Europe (Primarily Scandinavia and Russia) where ice hockey is as popular a sporting event as football is to the English.

Wishing to avoid the excessive use of high card icons (which wouldn’t really fit with an ice hockey game), Break Away has chosen to use the hockey rink, ice skates, an ice hockey mask and more sensationally, an ice making machine as the icons in this slot.

Incorporating the use of Microgaming’s 243 ways to win pay line feature, Break Away slots uses its own logo as its wild symbol. This is no normal wild card as it can appear in groups of three stacks on the three latter reels.

A puck that has been set alight appears as the games scatter symbol and can trigger a free spins round as well as bonus prizes if it is hit. Fifteen, twenty and twenty five free spins are available for three, four, and five scatter symbols respectively.

Break Away slots is considered a relatively cheap online slot and has quite a high payout percentage for a simple Microgaming title. As far as non-Christmas related online slots go, things should work out just alright for the online slot.