Reel Rush 2

Remember the game Reel Rush from some years ago? Yeah, sure you do, or most players would, because it became quite a popular game after it was released by NetEnt. Not to me though. Yes, I remember the game, yes, I’ve played it many times, but no, it wasn’t a favourite of mine. Why? Because I have never liked any game that isn’t in the standard format of 5-reels and 3-rows. This Reel Rush 2 plays almost identically as the original Reel Rush game would, and having a 1-3-5-3-1 rows format, which I don’t like.

Well, having said all that, Reel Rush 2 now offers more new features than the original game, to make it more interesting, and with more chances of getting wins. Not big wins though, because the win values of all the symbols are extremely low, except if they are won with the bigger 15x or 20x win multipliers. Most of the newer features can be randomly activated in the base game, ranging from Respins, Second Chance, Symbols Upgrade, Wild symbols, Wild Multipliers, Blocks Breaker, or Tokens. During the free spins, there’ll be additional features for Extra Free Spins and Multiplier Booster. That’s a whole lot of different features in one game, so if you still find Reel Rush 2 a boring game to play, hmm, I don’t know what to say! Hahaha.

As you’d probably already know, the free spins feature is activated when all the Blocks have been unlocked, awarding 8 free spins, with chances for getting additional free spins along the way, but no Retriggering of the game. Alternatively, filling up the Star Meter with 5 Yellow Stars also activates the free spins game, or, you can ‘Buy’ the free spins game, or simply gamble your Tokens to get the free spins game. Phew, so many choices just to get some free spins, huh?!

Well, I don’t really have to elaborate on how to play the game. It is easy enough, and you’ve probably played Reel Rush before too, but honestly speaking, even with all the additional new features included, it still couldn’t attract me enough! Why? The very low win values of the symbols could only give very low wins, the 2x or 3x random Multipliers could hardly boost up the wins by any significant amount, and I also don’t quite like 8 free spins feature, which proved to be insufficient to provide bigger wins. Reel Rush 2 is okay to play, but not for me.

Reel Rush 2 is a game that was released a few months ago by the well known game provider Netent as a sequence of the older Reel Rush slot. I do like Reel Rush original slot so I was quite curious to see how this newer game would play and what it would have to offer.

Right off the bat I do like the game design and most importantly I like the fact that the minimum bet is set to 0.20€ bets instead of the older Reel Rush 0.50€ bets per spin. That's definitely a plus in my opinion. And if I have to compare the gameplay, Reel Rush 2 has much more interesting gameplay due to its many features that also come up during base play.

I've had a few sessions with this slot now and each has been over 500 spins so I've managed to come to a conclusion. I'm not a fan. And here's why. The payouts are incredibly low and even though the way you trigger free spins is the same as the older Reel Rush, the average wins aren't higher than 50x bet. The only thing I do like is the added features- on any spin you can get extra activated reels that help to get closer to free spins, you can also get a cost free respin which in my opinion has been helpful at times, as well as some symbols can be turned into other symbols, added wilds, multipliers etc. That's the only thing that makes the gameplay exciting, but again, not once in my sessions it has resulted with a big win.

Then there are also super free spins- if you collect enough coins that come to the screen frequently, you will get super free spins bonus (yet you still need to trigger it by several consecutive wins). Something that I find an interesting marketing tactic is that you can also purchase more coins to gamble the regular spins for the super ones. It's interesting as it's not a common practice for any Netent games. And to be honest I think it's not worth it at all- it took me less than 500 spins to collect enough coins for super spins, the only difference between super spins and regular ones is that there's an increasing multiplier. Again, I had one super spins bonus and it paid less than 50x bet so definitely not worth paying for.

Overall I have mixed feelings about this slot. I like the added features to the new Reel Rush 2 and the lower bet sizes. But with that in mind, the payouts are low and I haven't had a single 100x bet win after several sessions. I don't think I will continue to play this slot.

Reel Rush 2 is a 5-reel slot with between 45 and 3,125 ways to win which is one of the latest releases by Netent. Unlike the previous version which had a minimum bet of $0.50 per spin, you can get away with $0.20 per spin up to maximum of $100 per spin. The game can be played across all devices and has a couple of features during the base game.

There are 8 randomly triggered features giving you extra wilds, block breakers for more ways to win, re-spins, symbol multipliers, symbol upgrades, super tokens, more free spins and progressive multipliers.

With colourful style graphics, Reel Rush 2 looks like something from a video game. You’ll see 6 fruits with the strawberry being the most lucrative. 3, 4 or 5 in combination will give you 0.5, 2.5 or 8 times your total bet respectively. There’s also a wild symbol that can appear on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5, and it substitute for all symbols.

The Re-Spin feature: When you win during a normal base game spin the re-spin feature kicks in
• 1st re-spin – 135 ways to win
• 2nd re-spin – 405 ways to win
• 3rd re-spin – 675 ways to win
• 4th re-spin – 1,125 ways to win
• 5th re-spin – 1,875 ways to win

One you win on the 5th re-spin you will unlock 3125 ways to win and trigger the free spins feature. You can either gamble your tokens If you do not have enough to trigger the progressive multiplier or you can just save it and build up more tokens to get a free spin feature with a progressive multiplier.

I must admit that triggering free spins on the previous version was difficult, and with this one I managed to trigger 4 features within 100 spins. I think the random base game features actually helps a lot, especially the extra wilds and block breakers.

The free spins did not pay that much at times, as I hit on average between x60 – 100 during those 4 features. I guess with the progressive multipliers that would increase the games potential and bigger wins can be generated. I actually like the slot and the fact that you can spin it from a minimum of $0.20 per spin.