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Hooligan Hustle Review

There’s no doubt that football has a tendency to bring out both the best and the worst in terms of tribalism in people, and Hooligan Hustle is definitely about the latter. Bottles and bricks are being hurled non-stop in the background, but Play’n Go has wisely taken the edge off an otherwise serious theme by making it cartoonish and somewhat parodic. That being said, players looking for high volatility trouble will find plenty in this hard-knuckle release.

The influence from NoLimit City definitely shines through, but Hooligan Hustle has no trouble standing its ground without ‘copycat’ tattooed on its lowbrow forehead. You get a top Rumble Row modifier reel, as well as mystery symbols and a random symbol split mechanic in the base game. The bonus round gives you 3 options, and the most volatility feature comes with only 1 free spin. This might just be your best Hail Mary shot at cracking the 10,000x potential though, which comes with a decent 1 in 12,345,679 probability.

Hooligan Hustle Slot - Reels Screen

Hooligan Hustle Slot Features

The reels are filled with crowbars, batons and knuckle dusters as the lower-value symbols, and you also have 4 rather mean-looking brutes as the premiums. The character premiums pay between 1.4 and 2 x your stake for 5-oak wins, and the traffic cone Wild pays the same as the top-tier hooligan. The wild also steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations.

The Wooden Box with a question mark lands as a Mystery Symbol, and these symbols always turn into a randomly chosen matching symbol. They can turn into wilds, as well as regular pay symbols, but not scatters.

Symbols can be randomly selected to split at random times, and all instances of the chosen symbol type will then split in two. This feature can affect any symbol except the scatter, and it can increase the number of win ways up to 248,832 at the most.

You’ll see an extra bonus top reel above the regular grid, and this is called the Rumble Row. It comes with 1 position per regular reel, and modifier symbols can appear in the Rumble Row positions randomly on any given base game spin. The modifier then applies to the reel directly below, and they work as follows:

• Wild Reel - turns the whole reel wild with a stack of wilds.
• Double Trouble - syncs 2 reels so they land the same symbols.
• Multiplier - boosts all wins that involve the relevant reel by x2.

Hooligan Hustle Slot - Free Spins

The Bonus Round triggers when you land 3 scatters anywhere in view, and you get to pick from 3 unique feature options. These are as follows:

• Lairy! - awards 10 free spins with 2+ guaranteed Rumble Row modifiers per spin.
• Riot! - awards 5 free spins with 3+ guaranteed Rumble Row modifiers per spin.
• Anarchy! - awards 1 free spins with 4+ guaranteed Rumble Row modifiers.

The 200 Spins Hooligan Hustle Slot Experience

You get a decent taste of the base game mayhem, before we trigger the bonus round at 0:45 into the 2:50-minute highlights video. We went with the 10 free spins Lairy! option, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

It’s been interesting to see how certain recent Play’n Go releases have been colored by the obvious NoLimit City influence, and that’s a kind of influence it’s hard to conceal. Hooligan Hustle is perhaps the most obvious such game, as it comes with a controversial theme, a top Rumble Row modifier reel ala Punk Rocker, as well as the symbol split and ways increasing mechanic. We don’t see this as a copycat effort though, but more like a new-on-the-block tough guy attempting to be initiated into the neighborhood gang.

There’s a full on brawl in the background, and cars are lit on fire when the bonus round triggers, and you get plenty of British slang action commentary to boot. The symbol splitting didn’t happen all that often for us, but it can probably be effective on a lucky day. The single spin bonus round option is a Hail Mary to say the least, but it’s probably worth trying once in a while. The solid 10,000x potential comes with an equally solid max win probability of 1 in 12,345,679, so Hooligan Hustle seems to be putting its money where its mouth is.

If you appreciate Hooligan Hustle Slot you should also try:

Punk Rocker - comes with a similar in-your-face middle finger attitude, and this volatile NoLimit City release plays out on 6x6 reels and 46,656 ways to win when the grid is maxed out. You can look forward to respins with sticky wilds, as well as 2 bonus round versions with 5 enhancers. The max win is a solid 15,072x your stake.

The Last Sundown - is another recent Play’n Go title where the NoLimit City influence shines through both in the theme and in the feature department. A random symbol type will split on every spin in the base game, increasing the dynamic payways up to 7,776 at the most. Up to all 10 symbols can become splitting symbols in the bonus round, and this can lead to payouts up to 18,000x your stake.

San Quentin - is a NoLimit City release that has no trouble taking the game at hand to the woodshed, not least when it comes to the 150,000x potential. The prison riot crowd is a few notches above football hooligans on the roughneck scale too, and enhancer cells award xWays mystery symbols and the razor symbol split mechanic. You get jumping wilds in the lockdown bonus round, and this game comes with an extreme volatility warning.