Rock Riff Slots
We don’t know about you, but a game that combines rocking guitar riffs with the blissful practice of fully loaded online slots action seems like absolute heaven to us. With that in mind, excitement levels in the office reached their peak a few months back when Playbetter (you know, that formidable iGaming production house that has consistently released banger upon banger these past few years) announced preliminary details of their free Rock Riff slot.
Set to be an online slot that redefine the musically themed genre of online slots, there was a great deal to get excited about. Whether you’re a fan of wailing 6 strings and crashing drums or not, you certainly have to admit the perfect harmony rock music and gambling have enjoyed over the course of the past several decades! Finally release day arrived, and with no download needed to get stuck straight in, it took us mere minutes to load her up and start spinning. But, did all live up to the immense level of expectation?
Monsters of the Theme
Software by Playbetter is consistently brilliant, upon this I’m certain we can all agree. Bug free, gleaming graphics, smooth transitions and mechanics, these are all features of any and every game in the stable. It’s pleasing to report that Rock Riff does absolutely nothing to buck this trend. What is on offer here is an unstoppably high-quality game that gives players it’s all from the second it loads.
Rock and roll culture is a superlative match for high variance video slots of this kind. Decorated throughout and across its five reels with enchanting graphics and imagery that recall baying audiences, sexy women, skulls, musical notations and some pretty cool guitar plectrums for scatter symbols, this game certainly talks the walk. This a game that looks and feels great before you even hit spin. All in all, a very good start indeed.
Rock and Roll Game Features
The Rock Riff video slot packs more than just a tightly created theme. Once you manage to get over its allure and charm, what you find is a game that has been designed from the ground up to be in most definitions of the word a real high roller. The primary additional feature of this slot is its bonus game. This is triggered when the reels are loaded with 3+ scatter symbols. When entered into, this bonus game can very rapidly grow a player’s pot total through a rocking array of multipliers and enhancers. Secondarily, Rock Riff packs more than its fair share of free spin triggers that keep players plodding along in the right direction, a must for any slot but worth mentioning nonetheless.
A modest array of internal features, as I’m sure any seasoned punter will agree, but certainly enough on the table here to interest players of all stakes and preference. In fact, what this game offers as far as limits and mechanisms go is an extremely widespread suitability for players who enjoy competitive gaming wagers of all shapes and sizes! Those wagers can run from a low of 0.20, up to a 500 high, based on every line being played on.
A Case for Comparison
With so many brilliant games to play and only so many established and accepted possible formats to which they can feasibly adhere, it’s only inevitable that games will overlap. The one domain in which developers have any real control over this is theme. With this, it’s safe to say that the Playbetter team have put forth every available effort needed to create a game that stands on its own in this respect.
All the same, there’s bound to be a game or two out there that matches up to it as far as internal mechanisms and pay structure are concerned. Such is the case here. These two games are sibling (fellow Playbetter title) Hungry Family, which packs an exact match RTP of 96%, a low-medium variance as well as a 5x3 reel, and Superheroes by the guys at World Match – which strikes exactly the same features bar the RTP!
What’s the Conclusion?
To pigeonhole this game as a title suited only to fans of guitar music would be foolish. Sure, if you intend to play for free then it is probably best that you enjoy the overall theme, but there’s a great deal available here that is likely to draw in gamers of many different backgrounds and tastes.
After all, that is what’s so great about iGaming and in particular slots gaming – the ability to bridge gaps and bring together sparse communities of gamers. By providing a game that is surely worthy of the time of any purveyor of modern slots, that’s exactly what Playbetter are sure to have done with Rock Riff. Our advice would be to log on and give the game a bash now so you can get to grips before the likely follow-up title emerges.
