Ooh Aah Dracula

As any cold-blooded slots player knows all too well, the stakes are rarely higher than in a vampire-themed game. Ooh Aah Dracula, the latest offering from Barcrest, combines graveyard scenes with horror tropes to bring players all the ghoulish excitement they can handle.


A five-reel, 10-line video slot, Ooh Aah Dracula is a piece of gothic splendour, with everything you would expect from a game designed to shock as well as entertain. Chief among these features is Dracula's Hi Roller, where a graveyard bonus is your key to extra prizes.

With a slice of Transylvanian terror and a glimpse of gravestones, this game is an absolute scream.


COUNT THE BONUSES
Like any online slot game worth its salt, Ooh Aah Dracula keeps players on side with free spins, but there's more to it than that. There's a bonus respin on offer whenever three, four or five heart symbols are visible, and just like when trying to kill Count Dracula himself, any stake qualifies. The respin applies to those reels where the bonus symbol does not appear, and has the eye-catching name 'Heart Attack Bonus'.

Hearts are a running theme throughout the game, and you can qualify for 15 free spins for ending the Heart Attack bonus game or getting to the stage where five heart symbols are showing, with an active wild thrown in for good measure. This feature also comes into force.

However there is another option available to players in this situation - the 'Stake it or Leave it' feature, where you can accept your winnings or opt to gamble. If four heart symbols are showing then by choosing to gamble the next round you will have 10 freespins with 2 symbols set Wild, while for five heart symbols it's 5 free spins and 3 wilds. For the gamblers among you, this provides an added element of risk.

In play during this stage is the Best Strategy Meter, which swings to the left or the right depending on whether your best strategy is to collect or gamble - of course that won't stop you from going against the best advice if the moment takes you!


HI ROLLER HIJINKS
A separate game from the rest of Ooh Aah Dracula, Dracula's Hi Roller gives players the chance to win the big bucks. Linking 5 spins for your given stake, it gives you the opportunity to unlock the Graveyard Bonus, where lurking among the spirits is the possibility of huge prizes. Count Dracula is known for his untold riches (well, that and the blood-sucking), and if you get lucky you can share in the wealth.

By unlocking the graveyard bonus you get to choose one of five different graves, and behind each one is a different number of souls. The holders seem to have sold their souls to the count himself, as each one has a cash value - find two souls to double the prize, three to treble it and so on.

If you're really lucky then you can unlock the Super Graveyard Bonus, where the number of graves rises to six. Play your cards right in the Hi Roller Round and you could be walking away with a very handsome reward.

For a slot game to be a big success it really needs a strong central theme, and Ooh Aah Dracula has that in spades.


The gothic horror elements make for solid enjoyment, based around one of the world's best known characters and most engrossing horror stories. None of the obscure or underwhelming themes found elsewhere - this game is all about one of the big guns.

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