Redline Rush

Redline Rush: Slot Overview

Is it kinda weird how a road car like the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut is said to be able to hit 560 km an hour (350 mph), yet most speed limits are around 80-110 km in the country and 50 km in town? Why the need for so much more potential speed? Not everyone's got access to the Nürburgring. Even the world-famous Autobahn has a 'recommended limit' of 130 kph. Oh well, gamblers with the need for speed may have their interest piqued by the online slot Redline Rush from developer Red Tiger. This is a game that celebrates pacey automobiles while tying several features to the idea of acceleration.

Redline Rush puts players right in the driver's seat of some lethal-looking sports car as it's tearing along the streets into a built-up skyscrapered city. Are crowded city streets the best place to really open a vehicle up and let it rip? Wouldn't all the stop lights, pedestrian crossings and sheer traffic limit the opportunities for putting the pedal to the metal? On the other hand, after splashing the cash on a fancy motor, some drivers might want as many people as possible seeing them cruising around in it. The dude in Redline Rush appears to have those interests, in a game that came across as a mix of Agent Royale, 24 Hour Grand Prix, and Trillionaire.

Bettin' time and Redline Rush takes stakes of 10 c to $/€20 per spin and offers a buy feature for players anxious to put their foot down in the bonus round. It's played on a 5-reel, 20 payline reelset, on which wins are awarded for landing matching symbols from left to right starting from the leftmost reel. Under this game's hood lurks a medium-high volatile math model, smoking out an RTP of 95.8%.

Winning symbols are removed from the grid, making way for symbols to drop down and replace them. If a new win is created after the symbols drop, then the chain reaction feature fires again, repeating the process. Push Redline Rush to its limit, and it removes low pay symbols from the reels, which are a batch of neon light-styled 10 to A card royals. The high pays are exhaust pipes, a front light, a wheel, a lady, and a man character symbols. Hitting 5 matching royals is worth 2 to 2.5 times the bet, whereas a line of 5 winning high pays awards 3 to 125 times the bet. Wilds appear on all reels, as well. They pay 125x the bet for a 5 wild winning line and substitutes for all paying symbols.

Redline Rush: Slot Features

Redline Rush sports features such as chain reactions, a 5-level speedometer, free spins, and a free spins buy.

Speedometer

A speedometer with 5 levels sits above the reels. Each win increases the speed to the next level, triggering a different modifier for the next chain reaction:

• Level 2 – an x2 win multiplier is applied to any wins at this level.
• Level 3 – an x3 win multiplier is applied to any wins at this level.
• Level 4 – an x5 win multiplier is applied to any wins at this level.
• Level 5 – the x5 win multiplier remains, plus all royal symbols are removed from the reels for chain reactions at this level.

If the speedometer reaches level 3 or higher, the spin does not end after a non-winning chain reaction. Instead, another chain reaction triggers at one level down on the speedometer and all symbols are removed except wilds or free spins scatters. A non-winning chain reaction at level 2 does end the sequence.

Free Spins

Players are granted 3, 6, or 12 free spins when landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, respectively. Free spins are played at the max level on the speedometer, meaning an x5 multiplier and royals are removed throughout. Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter triggers an extra 3, 6, or 12 free spins, respectively.

Feature Buy

With an RTP of 95.73%, players may buy the free spins round for the cost of 80x the bet to land at least 3 triggering scatters.

Redline Rush: Slot Verdict

So, did Redline Rush do enough to blow the hair back? Yes and no. It's got some good ideas that help it flow, some aerodynamic bumps which slow it down. The speedometer idea is one of the better things about Redline Rush. It takes the regular rising multiplier and chain reaction wins combo, then does quite interesting things with it. Getting to level 5 with the x5 multiplier and no royals in sight is like leaving the urban part of town with its ballbusting 50 kph speed limit and give way signs behind to get a decent speed up on the motorway. But it's not exactly easy. It took around 180 spins, from memory, to first hit level 5, though other occurrences were admittedly more frequent afterwards. As a consolation, the way the speedometer doesn't just reset and drop back to level 1 for a brand new spin when a non-winning reaction occurs but instead drops down a level (when at level 3 or higher) and keeps the current spin going is quite forgiving.

Where Redline Rush loses points is that the presentation is a little on the cheesy side - the characters, for example, are a tad corny, the flaunting a fat whip through a neon city idea (while wearing sunglasses at night) wasn't as appealing as the set up found in car featured games like NetEnt's Hotline 2, Drive: Multiplier Mayhem, or Slotmill's The Big Hit. Winning potential is a tad on the low side, too, where the 2,813.5x the bet max win is hardly supercharged nitro-fed mayhem.

Redline Rush is an okay slot for car enthusiasts to get enthused about. It's got some interesting ideas going on, occasionally dropping the hammer and switching up a gear or two, but it often feels hampered by traffic as well and lacks the horsepower to really go toe to toe with major muscle cars.