Wild Rescue Slot
Prepare yourself for an off-piste adventure with Novomatic’s Wild Rescue, a 5-reel slot machine where you must take to the slopes as part of a fearless and dynamic mountain rescue team.
The game features a default 30 paylines, meaning the only decision you have to make is how many credits to wager on each spin, and wild and bonus symbols are on hand to keep the action fresh.
Additional excitement is added by the presence of Tumble, Avalanche and Extreme Skier features, which can combine to help you significantly boost your winnings as you slalom your way to success.
Winter Wonderland
Visually-speaking, the design of Wild Rescue is fairly simple, with skiers, snowboarders and members of the mountain rescue team added to the traditional array of slot symbols to create a wintery feel which at least is a little different from common slot game themes.
Rescue choppers also hover into view on the first, third and fifth reel of the game to trigger a bonus feature, which, when activated, initiates a cool sequence of animation to really get your heart racing.
When three or more symbols are matched across any of the 30 paylines, the winning icons will freeze and shatter, allowing a new set of symbols to drop down into their place. This seamless animation not only makes Wild Rescue more interesting to look at than your average casino slot, but also plays an important role in ensuring you earn more winning lines per spin than in other games.
All winning lines and bonus features are greeted with heroic music befitting a team of intrepid mountain rescuers, while the in-play sound effects are as clean and crisp as freshly powdered snow.
An Avalanche Of Prizes
As mentioned above, when starting your alpine adventure in Wild Rescue, the 30 playline structure cannot be altered, meaning your only decision is how many credits you want to wager on each spin.
This makes the game instantly accessible even to new slot players, with the only subsequent decision necessary being whether or not to gamble your winnings in a simple game of red or black.
On hitting a winning payline, players will be prompted to either collect the winnings listed at the bottom of the screen or gamble – a button that, when pressed, whisks them away to a mini game where they can double their winnings indefinitely by correctly guessing the colour of the next card.
Additionally, once a winning payline is triggered, the Tumbling reel feature ensures a minimum of three new symbols will descend onto the game board, potentially completing further paylines without the need of a new spin. When a Tumble begins, the male mountain ranger icon also becomes wild, giving you more ways to win and potentially multiplying your total prize for that spin significantly.
Successfully complete three paylines once the Tumble feature has been initiated and you’ll trigger an Avalanche – a one-off bonus that instantly scatters up to six Wild Rescue symbols across the five reels. These symbols can be substituted for any symbol other than the bonus to complete paylines.
Get To The Chopper!
Speaking of the bonus symbols, one of the best ways to win big on Wild Rescue is to activate the Extreme Skier bonus spins by matching helicopter icons on the first, third and fifth reels of the game.
Once activated, the Extreme Skier bonus will initiate a free-spin game in which the normal payout table still applies, albeit with a unique twist. At the start of the game, six extreme skiers will be awarded and will randomly drop into play as the reels continue to turn. Players will notified how many extreme skiers they have left to enter the game by a console that reads: “waiting to ski”.
Once an extreme skier enters the game, it will move down one line each spin until it reaches the bottom of the reel, at which point one of two things will happen. Either the skier will drop off the mountain and out of the game entirely, or a rescue chopper will flutter by and return them to the summit to begin their descent again. The bonus feature is over when all skiers have left the game.
Peak Performer or Mountain Goat?
All in all, Wild Rescue is an intuitive game that is simple to play and accessible even to rookie slot players. The presence of ice-cool animations and music and the addition of three unique bonus games give the slot added depth without over-complicating matters, meaning your ride down the mountain is likely to be a smooth one and your attention span won’t plummet over any nearby cliffs. All in all this is a good move for Novomatic giving them a game outside the usual slot game types they are known for.
