The online slot title Road Trip is dedicated to those cross-country drives that have been at the heart of a whole lot of American movies across a range of genres: comedy, drama, thriller, rom-com, action-adventure and horror. The five reels, with three rows and 9 paylines, are couched in leather and vinyl like a dashboard instrument panel, complete with a speedometer at the top that animates to indicate the strength of wins. The guitar-driven hard-rock soundtrack seems completely apt, in this context.
Behind the Road Trip reels, the blacktop of Route 66 stretches away across an arid landscape of boulders and buttes, a big blue sky on the horizon. Even the numbering for the paylines is presented as a series of route markers, each decorated with the obligatory bullet-holes from passing drivers getting in some target practice. When the Scatter symbol, the Route 66 road marker, triggers a win during play, an animation of the road marker spinning on its post is accompanied by the bang of a gunshot.
Road Trip’s treatment of its theme really comes into its own with the game symbols. Players tired of the poker card values will be pleased to know that Road Trip uses 12 icons in total, all of them drawn from sights one would expect at a typical roadside diner or motel. Six of the 10 ordinary symbols are beverages or food, so players shouldn’t be surprised if they get a little peckish after playing for a while.
Coffee and doughnuts is the lowest paying of these icons, winning 5 coins for three matches and 100 coins for five of a kind. Next come an iced tea, a cold beer with pretzels, an ice-cream sundae, a stack of pancakes, and a juicy burger, which wins 250 coins for five matches. Road Trip also has three human symbols: a cheery trucker, a busty waitress and a handsome, tattooed convertible driver. Their prizes for five matches are 275, 350 or 500 coins, respectively.
A big blue semi truck, the trucker’s rig, is the most important of the Road Trip ordinary symbols, as it rewards players with 5 coins for just two matches on the same payline, as long as they are adjacent and commence at Reel 1, like all payline wins. For three, four or five matches, the rig pays 200, 2,000 or 7,500 coins.
Of course, these coin prizes are paid as multiples of the bet staked per payline. Players can chose a coin denomination of 1c 5c, 10c or 25c, and play any number of coins per line from 1 to 5. They can also play from 1 to 9 paylines, so the range of betting options runs from 1c to $11.25 per spin, putting Road Trip within reach of most pockets.
A 70s muscle car barrelling down the highway is the Road Trip slots Wild, and whenever it occurs on Reels 2 or 4, it expands to fill the entire reel along with a speedy animation. This enhances its ability to create multiple winning paylines by substituting for different symbols simultaneously.
Like in many video slots at online casinos Singapore, the only Road Trip symbol that can’t be replaced by the Wild is the Scatter: the aforementioned Route 66 road marker. Combos of two or more Scatters in any position win a multiplier of the total spin bet: X2, X5, X40 or X100 for two, three, four or five Scatters.