You’re taken right into the Mad Max style car with a motley crew of steampunkish wasteland warriors, as they are closing in on the “piggybank on wheels” Cash Truck that’s been rumored to roam the desert highway. The post-apocalyptic gang is armed to the teeth with anything from electric boomerangs to Molotov Cocktails, and they’re hellbent on getting set for life by taking down this score. That’s the backstory in a nutshell, and it only adds to the highly engaging dystopian world Quickspin has conjured up here.
This is a high-octane and fast-paced game for sure, and you can burn through plenty of spins in no-time until you hit a lengthy tumbling sequence. This can lead to larger top-up wins as you unlock top row positions, but you’ll probably need theMoney Train 2inspired Truck Raider Bonus Game to do serious damage. The25,000x potentialmay not dethrone the source of inspiration, but this is still a very strong competitor release.
There are6 Medium Win symbols, including spiked bats, jerrycans and 3 steampunk characters. The eye-patched hoodie dude is the leader of the pack apparently, as he’s the only High Win symbol. Anyway, the premiums pay between 0.8 and 5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol is also worth 5x your stake for 5 on a payline. Of course, the Wild also steps in for regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations.
All winning symbols are removed from the grid via theTumbling feature, and new and/or existing symbols drop down from above to fill the gaps. This process repeats as long as you keep winning, and it also triggers theExpanding Play Area mechanic. The starting5x4 gridcomes with3 blocked, semi-transparent top rows, and 3 random positions are unblocked per Tumbling Win. The tumbling continues until you land a non-winning tumble, and a totally unblocked 5×7 grid comes with 78,125 win ways.
If you manage to rack up2 scattersduring a tumbling sequence, theSecond Chance featureis triggered. All symbols except the 2 scatters are removed from the grid, and a fresh batch of symbols will then drop down. This may give you the 3rd scatter you need to get to the bonus round.
TheTruck Rider Bonus Roundis a hold-and-win style feature, and the3 triggering skull scattersturn into3 cash stack symbolsthat are randomly placed on an otherwise cleared grid. The 3 top rows are blocked as in the base game, and you start with3 respinsthat resets each time you land a non-blank symbol.
All symbols that land become frozen in place, and they also come with random bet multiplier prizes. In addition to regular cash stack symbols, you also get a fine selection of6 modifier symbols:
Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of theBonus Buy feature. You can purchase theregular bonus roundfor90xthe total stake, or you can pay360xyour stake for a version that comes with aguaranteed Doubler from the get-go.
Our 2:32-minute highlights video starts out with a rare and lengthy tumbling sequence that eventually leads to the bonus round. We landed the Doubler modifier symbol after a while, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.
The car chase visuals sucked us into the action from the very first spin, there is no doubt about that, but the base game can be a bit slow (just like the speed of the cars before the bonus round triggers). We’re not talking about the spin pace by the way, which is excellent, but we wish there was some kind of reward for unlocking all 3 rows. This does not happen all that often, as lengthy cascades are something you’ll rarely see between mostly dead spins and smaller wins.
We don’t mean to sound overly negative with the above nitpicking, as Cash Truck is a top-notch Quickspin release in the MT2 copycat genre. The audiovisual presentation is highly engaging, and fans of Mad Max: Fury Road should feel right at home. The Doubler modifier is the biggest innovation perhaps, and it can do more damage than you might think if you land it early on. The25,000x potentialmay only be half of what MT2 offers, but Cash Truck is still a very solid alternative for sure.
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Money Train 2- is the Relax Gaming smash hit that’s clearly inspired the game at hand. It comes with a scatter respin multiplier feature in the base game, but it’s the hold-and-win style Money Cart bonus round that steals the show here as well. With 9 unique modifier symbols, you can win up to 50,000x your stake.
Money Cart 2- is a good option if you want to spend as little time as possible in the base game grind, as you’ll trigger the MT2 bonus round around every 10 spins here. The feature plays out the same as in the original, but the max win has been sliced down to 5,000x your stake. We can only wonder if Quickspin is considering a similar bonus-centric follow-up for Cash Truck.
The Last Sundown- takes you into a somewhat similar post-apocalyptic desert world, and this Play’n Go release comes with 5×3 reels and 243 default win ways. A random symbol will be splitting per base game spin, increasing the number of payways up to 7,776 at the most. Up to all 10 symbols may become splitting in the bonus round, wilds included, and this can lead to 18,000x your stake payouts.
