If you have grown tired of Egyptian or Christmas themed slots, fear not, as Play'n GO is ready to kick off with a football hooligan themed slot later this month.

With a scheduled release date of the 16th of December 2021, you can expect lots of casinos to be adding Hooligan Hustle slot on release day, including Mr Green Casino.

Thankfully Play'n GO has opted for a cartoon feel and backdrop. The violence and chanting have been done in quite a playful manner, so rather than being outright offensive, it's almost a humourous mocking of football hooligans. Although the voice sound effects may grate on your ears very quickly when playing!

The gameplay is good enough to make this slot worth checking out regardless of whether the graphics and theme appeal, packed full of mini-features that all interact well together, there is lots to explore and delve into further on this machine.

Hooligan Hustle - Base Gameplay

The base gameplay on Hooligan Hustle takes place on a regular 5x3 reel set with 243-pay ways, this can increase to a staggering 248832 maximum ways thanks to the split symbols!

The regular reel strips are a mix of heavily stacked high and low paying hooligan themed symbols such as knuckledusters, road cones and spiked clubs, all making an appearance here.

While the maximum pays per line are incredibly low on this machine, the number of winning ways possible makes for some exciting potential. In its regular for its 243-way, but modifiers can increase these to crazy levels.

Rumble Row Reel Modifiers

On top of the reels, you will notice a Rumble Row reel modifier that can be activated on any spin, awarding one or even several different modifiers on these specific reels. Features such as 2x Multipliers, Wild Reels, Synchronized reels can all be granted, and where there are multiple of these, such as Synchronized reels, they can be applied over numerous matching reels.

Further Features such as Mystery Symbols and Splitting Symbols offer a varied mix of gameplay, especially considering how all of these features can interact with each other.

The base game can provide some very decent wins especially with Splitting Mechanic combined with a Rumble Row that introduces several different modifiers, as shown in the screenshot above.

In reality like most modern-day slots, the real excitement starts in the bonus round when the Rumble Row is active on every free spin, to trigger this main bonus feature you are looking for 3 of the Molotov Scatter symbols taking you to the Free Spins selector screen.

Wild Symbol

The Wild symbol in Hooligan Hustle is symbolised by the traffic road cone icon and substitutes for all other symbols except the scatter symbol helping to create wins.

This wild symbol can appear from the Mystery Boxes and can also be affected by the Split Mechanic.

Hooligan Hustle Wild Symbol

Scatter Symbol

Three Scatter symbols (Molotovs) are required to trigger the bonus round, before the free spins round begins you are given an option of 3 different bonus rounds with varying numbers of spins and guaranteed reel modifiers active on every spin.

The volatility rating of each of these is shown below.

Hooligan Hustle Scatter Symbol

Free Spins

Three or more Scatters are required to trigger the Free Spins. Once activated, you are presented with a choice of 3 Free Spins types.

• LAIRY awards 10 Free Spins with a guaranteed 2+ Rumble Row feature active on every spin.
• RIOT awards 5 Free Spins with a guaranteed 3+  Rumble Row feature active on every spin.
• ANARCHY awards 1 single Free Spin with a guaranteed 4+ Rumble Row feature active.

Along with the Rumble Row feature, the Splitting Symbol feature is active in Free Spins and works the same way as the base game.

The critical thing to note here is the minimum amount of Rumble Row features, you could also get lucky and receive additional ones on some spins, but this is random and infrequent.

Splitting Symbols

The Splitting Symbols is a randomly activated mini-feature present in the base game and bonus round, when triggered one symbol type is chosen at random and all occurrences of this symbol type visible on the reels will be split on the reel.

When forming wins, the very nature of this mechanic increases the number of winning ways massively. In regular play the slot is 243-way but with splitting symbols on a full screen this can increase to a huge 248832 Maximum amount.

The win cap of 10,000x is there for a good reason given the way this mechanic and multipliers could combine!