Monster Truck Madness

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Monster Truck Madness: Slot Overview

One form of entertainment popular amongst a certain audience sees trucks with colossal wheels bounce, flip, and smash their way around stadiums on giant dirt tracks. If you count yourself as one of the crowd, you may be interested in this online slot from Booming Games titled Monster Truck Madness. The game fills an arena with the sorts of sights and sounds you'd expect to find at a Monster Truck event while including features such as Random Wilds, Bursting Wilds, free spins, and Minor Elimination.

Gotta say, Monster Truck Madness starts off with a righteous bang when a truck accompanied by fireworks and a riff-heavy rock tune does a backflip. Players find themselves in the middle of an arena, right on the track in front of a dirt ramp rising up like a massive wave, threatening to engulf the 6-reel, 4-row game grid. A monster truck pulses away to the left, while stadium seating and floodlights make up much of the rest of the view. There's a slight video game vibe to Monster Truck Madness, and so far, so good.

Lifting the hood on the machine, we find a highly volatile math model firing off a theoretical return to player value of 95.2%, or 95.9% if and when buying free spins. Any device may be used to experience Monster Truck Madness on, where bets of c/p 0.30 to €/$ 450 per spin may be set. Along the game's 30 fixed paylines, winning combinations of three to six of a kind may be hit.

Starting with what are called 'Minors' around here are metallic-looking J-A card ranks paying 2 to 5 times the stake, while the 'Majors' – two riders and two monster trucks pay 6 to 15 times the stake for six-of-a-kind. Wild symbols and Bursting Wilds can land at any time to substitute for all normal pay symbols. Both are also linked to certain features, as you will see.

Monster Truck Madness: Slot Features

What may or may not help players win this Monster Truck race are features called Random Wilds, Bursting Wilds, Minor Elimination, Free Spins, and possibly a bonus buy.

Random Wilds

At random on any base game or bonus round spin, the Bursting Wilds feature may drop 1 to 24 wild symbols onto the grid while the reels are spinning.

Bursting Wilds

Bursting Wilds are golden versions of the regular wild symbols. When a Bursting Wild hits, it turns all of the symbols on its reel into wild symbols. Bursting Wilds can be part of the Random Wilds feature. After the burst action has occurred, the win evaluation takes place.

Minor Elimination

This feature can trigger at random in the base game or in free spins. It removes all Minor symbols from the reels, and a cascade effect happens. The remaining symbols on the grid drop to the lowest position on the board, while the empty gaps up above are filled with Major, wild, or scatter symbols.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 of the metallic skull scatter symbols awards 8, 12, 16, or 20 free spins. During free spins, the random features are triggered more frequently. On a final note, should you wish to buy the bonus feature, the cost is 70x the bet.

Monster Truck Madness: Slot Verdict

Monster Truck Madness has aspects that are pretty mondo, and we got hints of the 'madness' these larger-than-life machines can produce. Booming Games has done a decent job of turning on the 'tude, squeezing in a number of visual cues and pouring a head-banging tune over the top. Players into this particular form of racing, or entertainment, or whatever it is classed as should be pretty stoked to see it reproduced on the reels. Naturally, if the thought of trucks with big wheels skidding around a dirt track sounds a bit silly, better give it a miss.

Another reason for passing on Monster Truck Madness might be because its gameplay is pretty average, really. To address the free spins puzzle, while the game info doesn't mention anything, it did seem like the other features triggered with greater frequency than they did in the base game. That's just an eye-ball assessment, though, so there's a question mark whether free spins do or do not consistently turn out this way. The modifiers are okay in themselves, mainly revolving around wilds in some way, though the Minor Elimination can mix things up to a degree. Not exactly in an earth-rumbling way, as Monster Truck Madness tops out at 2,500x the bet.

To wrap up, Monster Truck Madness came across like one of those fan-focused sports games Microgaming used to release back in the day, and which they actually returned to not long before this with the release of Numero Uno. As a specialised game, it might suit players looking to scratch a monster truck itch as much as anything else. That's mainly because a lot of Monster Truck Madness isn't particularly mad or monstrous. The playthrough was okay at the time, but it didn't produce the sort of adrenal spikes that prompted a desire to rush out and buy tickets to the next Monster Jam meet.