Road Rage

Theme and Design

I enjoyed the design style of Road Rage which is much lighter than NLCs usual work. It is fast-paced and fun with plenty of humorous characters on the reels from grumpy grandads and snarling young men behind the wheel to dawdling grannies with zimmers crossing the road. The visuals are all cartoon style which looks great. Cars zip across the reels and there is plenty of smoking rubber, flashing lights and cops with megaphones interjecting at intervals throughout the game. Its compelling and entertaining at all times.

RTP and Variance

Nolimit City slots often have more than one RTP setting. It is at the casino’s discretion which level they choose to run the game at. Road Rage is one such game. The RTP settings here are 96.03%, 94.16% or 92.17%. We verified the RTP at five top slot sites to see which setting they were running at.

• Casumo (Independent) – 94.16% RTP
• BacanaPlay (Skill on Net) – 92.17% RTP
• Barz Casino (White Hat Gaming) – 94.16% RTP
• MrQ (Independent) – 96.03% RTP
• Duelz Casino (SuprPlay) – 94.16%

Of the five casinos we looked at, only MrQ was running the game at the optimum RTP level. For the best return we recommend you play there, though to be fair the difference between a 96.03% RTP and 94.16% RTP would hardly be noticeable to you during your session.

Nolimit City rate this game an 8/10 on their own volatility scale. That is not as high as their Insane (11/10) or Extreme (10/10) games. But it will still be an unpredictable ride.

Maximum Win

The top win in this game is capped at 36,000x. In testing over 10 billion spins that came out around 1 in 80 million rounds according to NLC’s own website. This is a really big top prize by most standards but there are much bigger from this studio including their record breaking Tombstone RIP game (300,000x).

Symbols and Paytable

Road Rage is an expanding reels slot. The game starts on 5 reels with 3 rows but expands with features so that the number of paylines can increase from 99 up to 259. To score a win you’ll need to land at least three matching symbols on ADJACENT reels from left to right. The symbols must be touching horizontally or diagonally.

Value in the paytable is far from spectacular, but there are plenty of multipliers and sticky multipliers to boost those wins so don’t worry. There are 10 different symbols there in all.

Lows are the Mirror, Flat Tyres, Coffee Cups, Air Fresheners and Mobile Chargers. They have small values from 0.5x to 1.5x when you hit five on adjacent reels. The premiums, in a typically NLC style, are made up of charichatures of motorists with personalised number plates with regs like GR4N and 4RISTOC4T. Top payouts for five on adjacent reels gets you between 2x and 5x.

Crucial to the gameplay are the multi-colored cars which come as Red, Yellow or Green. They will modify the properties of other symbols on the reels. Finally, there are Scatters which trigger the bonus modes described below.

Features and Gameplay

If you are expecting xNudge Wilds and Splitter Cells then you’ll be disappointed. NLC have dropped those trademark features for Road Rage. Instead, you get the following mix of Modifier Wilds and Bonus Rounds.

Wild Cars Bring Wilds and Multipliers

Regularly appearing on the reels are the three colored cars, each with their own modifier property.

• Yellow Cars signal Engine Breakdown, increasing the size of all symbols on their reel by +1.
• Red Cars signal a Drive-By, moving from right to left causing any symbol it moves over to increase its multiplier by 1. Then turning Wild when it comes to a stop.
• Green Cars also signal a Drive-By, but this time from left to right. Has the same properties as the Red Car.

Red and Green cars can collide to create a Colliding Wild where the multipliers are added together. They also remain sticky when active in a bonus round. 

Traffic Light Scatters

These appear at random in the base game. Two triggers a re-spin with a GUARANTEED Wild Car on every reel.  Three, four of five triggers one of the bonus rounds below.

Mystery Symbols

These drop in the bonus rounds to reveal a color. If that color matches a Wild Car then it increases that cars multipliers by 1x. If there is no matching color then then an extra re-spin is given.

Rage Buff

This unique feature will play before a bonus round starts. The cars move over the reels to award Free Spins, Sticky Multipliers and Drive-By Multipliers.

Three Bonus Round Modes

You'll need scatters to unlock the bonus modes as follows:

• 3 Scatters – Morning Rush with 3 rows
• 4 Scatters – H1ghway Jam with 4 rows
• 5 Scatters – C1ty Mayh3m with 5 rows

In short, you are playing on a bigger grid at higher bonus levels, resulting in more paylines and more chances to win. Landing scatters when playing on one bonus level can upgrade you to the next. Meanwhile, Wild Cars also become Sticky in their stop positions and guarantee you an extra spin when you move up the bonus level.

Remember, the Rage Buff feature will play out before the bonuses begin, so you’ll also have extra spins and sticky multipliers in play too.