Introduction to Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds
Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds is a casino slot from Yggdrasil that takes us to the Walk of Fame. These Vikings have been on quite a journey, starting all the way back in 2015 with Vikings Go Wild, and have since appeared in a plethora of other releases with wildly different themes, such as trips to Egypt, Hell, or even Vegas. Across their many endeavors, the gameplay foundation has shifted slightly, but it has always centered on Viking Symbols becoming Sticky Wilds in some form. In the more recent releases in the series, this is through the titular Wild Fight feature, and here in Hollywood, it is triggered through sneaky paparazzi trying to take a few shots of our Viking Stars. These Sticky Wilds can come with Stacking Multipliers and be part of either the Respins or Free Spins bonus games, even turning Berzerk if having received enough Award Ceremony Letters to guarantee their stardom. All of this comes together into a not-so-serious theme with a familiar but solid gameplay loop with an okay max win of 6,000X the bet.
Yggdrasil delivers another game in the “Vikings Go To” series, this time being in Hollywood, where, while all the flashy outfits and paparazzi feel fresh, it does come with a very familiar feature lineup.
Theme, Gameplay, & Payouts
Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds is a video slot from Yggdrasil with 5 Reels, 3 Rows, and 20 Paylines. You can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.1 and a Max.bet of 100. Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds comes with a lower-than-average RTP of 94%, a hit frequency of 27.38%, medium/high volatility, and an okay max win of 6,000X the bet.
Set on the red carpet, we tag along with one of the Vikings, who’s dressed up in a clean, white suit, to pass the many paparazzi and journalists down the Walk of Fame. While the Vikings have been on many adventures, they’ve never been famous like this, retelling their stories in a movie format, and this seems to finally be their big break. You can play the game on most notepads, desktops, and mobiles.
The lower-paying symbols are card suit emblems, including a blue clover, a green diamond, a purple spade, and a red heart. The higher-paying symbols are the Viking Stars, including the blue, green, purple, and red Vikings. Landing a win with 5 of the same symbols pays out 6X to 10X the bet. The Special Symbols include Wilds, Award Ceremony Letters, and Scatter Symbols, but more on these in the Feature Section.
Special Features & Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds?
You can win up to 6,000X the bet.
What features are available in the slot Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds?
The features are Wild Symbols, Wild Fight, Respin, Fame Collection, Free Spins, Spotlight Moment, and Feature Buy.
Wild Symbols
Wild Symbols help form winning combinations by being able to substitute for all regular paying symbols.
WildFight
Randomly, the high-paying Viking symbols can be ambushed by paparazzi, triggering the WildFight. If they succeed, the high-paying Viking symbol will turn into a Sticky Wild for the rest of whatever bonus is currently active.
Respin
Landing exactly 1 Scatter Symbol triggers the WildFight Respins, where all high-paying symbols will be ambushed by paparazzi and can turn into Sticky Wilds for the Respin. By landing exactly 2 Scatter Symbols, you instead trigger the Multiplier Wild Fight Respin, where all Sticky Wilds come with a 2X Multiplier.
Fame Collection
In the base game, each high and low-paying symbol can land with a corresponding Award Ceremony Letter, which will add points to the collection of its associated Viking Star. When a Viking Star collection is full, that Viking will go Berzerk in the next Free Spins feature, guaranteeing to succeed in their WildFight and turning into a Sticky Wild. A Berzerk Viking also increases the chance to trigger the Free Spins feature.
Free Spins
By landing 3, 4, or 5 Scatter Symbols, you will be awarded the Free Spins feature with 6, 8, or 10 spins. During the bonus game, a WildFight occurs on every spin, and if a high-paying symbol succeeds, it remains a Sticky Wild for the remainder of the bonus game. Each time a new Sticky Wild appears, it grants a +1X Multiplier to all previous Wilds. By landing additional Scatter Symbols, you can also be awarded with +1 spin.
Spotlight Moment
On a random non-winning spin, the Spotlight Moment can trigger, spawning Award Ceremony Letters or Scatter Symbols onto the reels.
Feature Buy
Through the Feature Buy, you can instantly trigger the bonus game for a price based on the current bet.
65X = Awards the Free Spins feature.
390X = Awards the Free Spins feature with a random Berzerk active.
Final Thoughts on Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds
The “Vikings Go To” series has been a pretty interesting one over its decade-long run, releasing plenty of sequels with wildly varied themes and, for the most part, building upon its gameplay foundation with each new release. However, even with its vibrant colors and expensive suits, Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds just doesn’t click the same way the older releases have. This can be for a couple of reasons, starting with its rather boring setting, where the most interesting thing is that our beloved Vikings are now wearing suits and dresses, but it fails to really capture the essence of what it is to be a Viking, meaning that it loses a bit of its connection to the rest of the series.
When it comes to gameplay, no matter how good the movies might be, Hollywood disappoints us, as this game’s features are taken directly from the previous released, Vikings go to Olympus Wild Fight. While the series hasn’t been perfect, most releases have at least tried to change up the foundation slightly between games, but in more recent games, we’ve also lost a few features, such as the Treasure Chest bonuses. Instead, Yggdrasil has decided to market the series with new flashy titular features such as Wild Fight and RushingWilds, even though the actual features have been around since the start, and while it may be a small pet peeve, we’re not really a fan of the unnecessarily long titles. The actual gameplay loop focuses on the Respin and Free Spins features, which are quite boring on their own, but what made the series so beloved are the Sticky Wild Vikings, the true stars of the show, thanks to their Stacking Multipliers. But even though the Sticky Wild Vikings are as good as ever, we can’t ignore the elephant in the room, which is that this feature list is more or less a reskin of the prior game in the series, released only a bit over a year earlier. We’re happy to see Yggdrasil bring the Vikings back, but the fact that it’s the same features we had last year, just with mostly worse stats, and that the Hollywood theme just doesn’t really click means that Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds is just a disappointing release all around.
Vikings go to Hollywood Wild Fight RushingWilds is part of Yggdrasil’s decade-long “Vikings go to” series, but with reskinned features centered on the Sticky Wild Vikings and a rather lacking theme.
