Monopoly Money Line

Monopoly Money Line: Slot Overview

Its partner in gambling, Red Tiger, had recently released a couple of Monopoly slots - Monopoly Cash is King and Monopoly Rent Rush, apparently prompting NetEnt to leap on the license to produce one of its own. What it has made is Monopoly Money Line, another entry in a long line of slots based around the popular board game. And while NetEnt's game is rife with street cards, recognizable playing tokens, and of course Mr Monopoly himself, the studio has tinkered with the presentation to give enthusiasts something relatively novel to look at and hopefully enjoy as they try their luck in yet another Monopoly-themed slot.

The base game is played in a city environment, the grid a sort of town square surrounded by roads, buildings, and train tracks, as if NetEnt has taken aspects of the board game and brought them to life, Sim City style. The view completely shifts when free spins are active, to a street's eye view of a glitzy part of town, all bright lights, Broadway style. It's quite neatly done, and while this is totally different from seeing an actual board on the screen, fans should be able to appreciate the approach NetEnt has taken. Monopoly Money Line certainly makes an attempt to be energetic and lively.

Monopoly Money Line's gaming area is a 5x3 reelset combed with 10 paylines to land winning combinations along. First, players choose a stake of $/€0.10 to $/€100, while the Elevate menu offers 5 ante bet and feature buy options. Rated as highly volatile, Monopoly Money Line produces a theoretical RTP of 96.18% at most.

The symbols are very Monopoly-ish, consisting of 10-A icons, an iron, a dog, an automobile, a ship, and a golden top hat. Royals award 2.5x to 10x the stake when 5 matching symbols hit, or 20x to 100x is paid when landing 5 matching high pays. When wilds are in view on the reels, they are able to substitute all of the regular paying symbols.

Monopoly Money Line: Slot Features

For features, there are Walking Wild Respins, a hold 'n' respins free spins round, and Elevate buys.

Walking Wild Respins

Respins trigger randomly in the main game. When active, the Walking Wild symbol enters near the edge as the front of a train. At the start of each respin, the train moves one step in any direction until it disappears. The train has carts which contain wilds, wilds with a multiplier of x2 or x5, and/or a scatter. The scatter is also wild. The train cannot loop or cross its path. When the train exits the reels, one final respin occurs with all carts on the reels.

Free Spins

In the main game, landing 3 scatters on the middle three reels triggers 3 free spins on a 5x5 play area. During free spins, only the green, pink, orange, and blue street symbols, a collector chest symbol, and golden tickets may land. Street symbols and the collector chest stay on the reels till the round ends. Landing any symbol resets the spin counter back to 3. Street symbols carry the multiplier value of one house when they land. The green, pink, orange, and blue street symbols have values of x1, x2, x3, and x5, respectively. When a collector lands, it collects the multipliers of all symbols on the reels to become its own, though other symbols keep their values when this happens. The collectors can only land if there are streets present on the reels or on the same spin the first street appears. When a gold ticket lands, a train appears, awarding 3 to 15 prizes from its carts:

• Extra Houses - All streets of one colour get +1 to +4 additional houses.
• Street Multiplier - All streets of one colour get a multiplier of x2 to x25.
• Chest Multiplier - All collectors get an x2 or x3 multiplier.

The train may also award a Chance Card, activating one of the following:

• Railroad Expansion - A new train arrives to award new prizes.
• Rent Rush - Collects multipliers from all streets in view and adds them to the total win after all train prizes are awarded.
• The Investor - A sticky symbol lands with a random value of x1 to x3 and gains an additional x2 multiplier every free spin.
• Tax Refund - Awards a prize bag worth 20x to 100x.
• Multiplier - Adds x2 to x25 multiplier to all streets on the reels.

Elevate Feature

The Elevate section is where players can activate various features. This includes the Wilds Chase at 2x the bet to increase the chance of wild symbols landing, the Bonus Go at 3x, increasing the chance of getting scatters, or Respins at 30x to trigger respins after every spin. The free spins feature can be bought for 100x or the Free Spins & Chance with a guaranteed golden ticket for 300x the bet.

Monopoly Money Line: Slot Verdict

Monopoly Money Line is a pretty fun, creative take on a license that has cropped up a lot in the slot world. To its credit, NetEnt has quite successfully reinterpreted Monopoly through different visuals and perspectives to make a game which should feel familiar yet somewhat distinct. The city-style base game and the viewpoint switch for free spins help Monopoly Money Line stand apart from other Monopoly titles, particularly those that go harder on the literal board-game layout. Consequently, Monopoly Money Line manages to inject a measure of life into the genre, and the transition from base game city to neon-lit, Broadway-ish free spins keeps the atmosphere from feeling stagnant.

That is, if Monopoly slot fatigue hasn't set in, which is totally understandable if it has. For players who just can't get enough streets, Chance Cards and metallic tokens in their life, Monopoly Money Line is one to check out. Trains play a big part in Monopoly Money Line's enjoyment. They help make the main game more interesting via the Walking Wild Respin feature, and during free spins, when they appear to bestow carts of prizes. The free spins round, technically speaking, might not be hugely special, but the way Mr Monopoly drives his train underneath the grid to throw prizes and the whole streets and houses angle is amusing.

To get the most out of Monopoly Money Line, it will probably help if you've already got a soft spot for all things Monopoly, though the same can be said about most of these slots. A 10,078x max win doesn't hurt the appeal either. And so, for supporters, NetEnt has produced an entertaining option that balances iconic imagery with a smattering of alternative elements.