Getaway Gangsters

Getaway Gangsters: Slot Overview

Join a couple of Bonnie & Clyde types as they skirt the law, looking good while doing so in Just For The Win's crime slot Getaway Gangsters. Are getaway drivers still a thing? Back in the day, it made sense for crooks to have a getaway driver sitting nearby with the engine running, ready to whisk the gang away from the scene of the crime in the hopes of not getting caught. These days, with extensive CCTV and chase helicopters, surely escaping the reach of the police is a lot harder than it once might have been. Now, though, it can seem there are plenty of ways to rip people off which are within the law that aren't threatened by jail time. Still, if you want to indulge in a glitzy crime fantasy, maybe Getaway Gangsters is the outlet.

Just For The Win's slot swaggers onto the screen, cocktail in hand, €50 cigar in the other, dressed to the nines, before leaning against the bar to take in the room. It's got a 1920s Art Deco atmosphere and is populated by a dapper gent in a purple suit and a fleshy dame holding a Tommy Gun, both looking like they're prepared to claw their way to the top of the crime hierarchy by any means necessary. Big band effects celebrate big wins, and the golden stainless steel chrome trim helps make Getaway Gangsters look and sound a classy number. Not that crime is classy, but pretend crime can be fun.

To check the hypothesis, let's pick a stake of 20 c to $/€40 and see what Getaway Gangsters does. The gaming is hosted on a 5-reel, 4-row grid matrix, where 30 paylines are built in for wins to fall across. Three RTP models are available, defaulting at 96.05%, while the hit rate on this return model is 26.53%, and the volatility is high.

Getaway Gangsters does that thing where the two top premium symbols merge to form bigger pictures when they land in sizes of 1x2, 1x3, or 1x4. They also land as 1x1 as well, as do all other pay symbols. The gentleman is the highest paying, symbol followed by the lady, then we've got a gun, a glass of booze, a cigar, then spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds. A line of 5 card suits pays 1x the bet, 2.5x to 4x is paid for 5 matching mids, whereas 5x to 7.5x is paid for hitting 5 matching character symbols.

Getaway Gangsters: Slot Features

Getaway Gangsters keeps it pretty simple for the most part, dropping wild symbols with multipliers, free spins where the wilds are sticky, and a feature buy.

Wild Symbols

Multiplier wild symbols appear on reels 2, 3, and 4 in the base game and free spins. They land with a multiplier of x1, x2, or x3 and substitute for all regular pay symbols. Wins on a line containing a wild multiplier are multiplied by its value. Wins on a line containing more than 1 wild multiplier are multiplied by the product of the multipliers.

Free Spins

Free spins scatter symbols appear on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the base game and on the leftmost and rightmost reel during free spins. Landing 3 scatters in the base game triggers 8 free spins. Each landed scatter in the free spins round awards +1 extra free spin. When multiplier wilds land in the free spins round, they turn into sticky wilds and stay on the reels until the feature ends.

Buy Free Spins

8 free spins can be bought for 100x the bet. When buying free spins, sticky wilds have a guaranteed multiplier of x2 or x3.

Getaway Gangsters: Slot Verdict

If you're the sort of person who can't stand the glamorisation of crime in pop culture, then Getaway Gangsters won't be for you. This is a glossy, crime-is-cool game where the glam criminals could moonlight as actors on a daytime TV soap opera, where bullets get fired, but no one actually gets hit, and all the crime is victimless. Pure fantasy, in other words, and if anyone can create a lustrous-looking version of that, it's Just For The Win. However, while the style is bang on, the substance, though potentially effective, is somewhat suspect.

This is because the features and the gameplay in general are fairly standard going. Not bad going, but nothing 'wow, check this out' either. One of the superstars is the wild multipliers, and making them sticky for free spins is a bit of a boss move. Sticky wilds on their own are able to make for thrilling moments, but tacking on multipliers has shown to be a winning formula on more than one occasion in the past. NetEnt's Dead or Alive 2 and Relax Gaming's Top Dawg$ are classic examples, and wannabe (pretend) crims get a blast in Getaway Gangsters. Or at least they may do, should the wild multipliers start gumming up the place during a free spins bonus round.

Should wild multipliers really crowd up the reels, doing their thing, then Getaway Gangsters can achieve wins of over 5,000x the bet. So, for some make-believe lawbreaking with a set of proven features sounds just the thing; Getaway Gangsters could be alright. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or put forward major mechanical advances, but for reliable features in a virtual gangster world, Getaway Gangsters could make for a swell diversion for those warm to Just For The Win's flamboyant style.