Published on 21st March 2014 by Becky Mosley

Microgaming has unleashed a wave of pirates onto the seven seas, in their latest video slot game, which was released last week. Known as Loose Cannon, this very cartoon-style video slot is aiming to compete with some of the more popular pirate themed online slots currently dominating the genre.

243 ways to win!

To start off with, Loose Cannon has a major advantage of its rivals. Microgaming has made this slot one of their 243 ways to win slots. This means that there are 243 paylines sitting on the 5 reels that has to offer. Furthermore, there are two bonus features that have also been worked into its design.

1,2 spin!

The first of these two bonus features is the free spins round. If the player happens to acquire the compass icon on the first, second or third reels, they will trigger the free spins bonus. It doesn’t matter how many scatter icons you land (the scatters are the compass icons), as you will always be offered 15 free spins, regardless. The free spins round can also be retriggered whilst it is in session, by simply landing 3 or more additional scatter icons.

The second feature is one that is present during both the base round and the free spins round, and it is feature unique to this slot. It is known as the Wild Cannon Feature. If the player lands a wild ship in the middle reel (reel 3), then they will trigger the feature. The ship will fire cannonballs onto the icons on the reels. Those symbols that are struck will turn into wild icons, whilst the entre middle reel will become an expanding wild symbol. It is possible for every single icon on the reels to become wild in this manner, which could be phenomenally good news for casino gamers!

Loose Cannon is available to play at most top online casinos that currently offer Microgaming titles.