The excitement of the chase; the thrill of the Hotline. Head back to the 80’s, step onto the crime ridden streets of Miami with NetEnt’s Hotline 2.
RELEASE DATE
24 August, 2020.
THE PITCH
With a combination of the Twilight Miami backdrop, a retro-cool soundtrack and 80s-style graphics, NetEnt brings this slot franchise back with a bang.
THE DETAILS
In Hotline 2, Detectives Quinn and Riviera are brought in to investigate a jewelry store robbery in sunny Miami. But what started out as a simple jewelry heist investigation just got a whole lot more complicated when it turns out the devious Kitty Weiss is involved!
The slot is a five reel, three row video slot featuring Expanding Wild symbols, the Hotline feature, and Free Spins with expanding reels. It is played with 243 bet ways (up to 1944 in Free Spins) and different bet values, coin values, and bet levels.
Just like in the original, Hotline 2 slot comes with a Hotline feature that increases the chance to win Expanding Wild symbols for a higher bet. At Base Bet, reel 3 is a Hotline. More reels can be turned into hotlines. When the Double Bet is activated, reels 3 and 4 are Hotlines, and the bet is doubled. When the Triple Bet is activated, reels 2, 3 and 4 are Hotlines, and the bet is tripled.
As explained above, a Wild symbol landing on a Hotline expands to cover the entire reel if resulting in a bet way win. Other reels can be turned into hotlines with bonus bets.
Wild symbols can appear on reels 2, 3, and 4 in the main game and Free Spins and substitute for all symbols except for Scatter symbols. Wild and Expanding Wild symbol substitution pays the highest possible winning combination on a bet way, according to the Paytable. If a Wild symbol lands on a Hotline, it expands to cover the entire reel.
Scatter symbols activated Free Spins. In Free Spins, landing Wild symbols can increase the height of a reel, creating more bet ways. The number of bet ways in Free Spins starts at 243 and can reach up to 1944 when the height of reels 2, 3 and 4 increases!
Playing around with the Hotlines will also alter the base game RTP value accordingly, resulting in 94.51%, 95.35%, or 96.05% with 1, 2, or 3 Hotlines activated. It is slightly lower from what we had in the first instalment, but it’s a bit higher than the industry average on 96.05%.