Yo, players, better flip your caps backwards for this one cos we're turning the bass up in The Money Men Megaways, a hip-hop-themed online slot from Pragmatic Play. Yeah, yeah, money can't buy happiness, and the best things in life are free for sure, but having a fat wedge of cash in your wallet isn't a bad feeling either. And if you're the sort of person who likes to spend that cash on eye-catching consumer items while nodding your head up and down to a beat (no judgement), then The Money Men Megaways might be the game you're looking for.
On the topic of looks, The Money Men Megaways is a bright slot full of items associated with the genre it slides into. This includes things like gold jewellery, graffiti-style symbols, fancy cars, big city livin', and three cashed-up individuals throwing out hand gestures on top of the gaming grid. Depending on your taste, The Money Men Megaways skirts a fine line between cringe and not cringe, but we're willing to give it the benefit of the doubt at first glance, not judge too harshly, and see where this ride takes us.
>Wherever The Money Men Megaways does end up, it does so with the aid of a highly volatile math model slinging out a default RTP of 96.02%. This is the figure when betting 20 p/c to $/€240 per spin, but chucking on the ante bet increases the RTP slightly to 96.03%. The ante bet increases the stake by 50%, giving double the chance of winning the feature. A 6-reeled Megaways grid is where the game is hosted; each reel lands up to 7 symbols, producing up to 117,649 ways to win.
After each spin, winning symbols are paid and removed from the reels. The remaining symbols fall to the bottom of the grid, and new symbols pour in from the top to fill the gaps. If another win occurs, the process repeats itself, ending when no new winning combinations land on the screen. Wins are awarded for landing matching symbols of any row height from left to right from the first reel onwards. Spray-painted J to A royals start the table off, followed by a gold watch, a stack of casino chips, a hat, a hot rod, a ghetto blaster, and a gold dollar sign necklace. A 6 OAK royal win will get you 0.5 to 0.6 times the bet or a 6 OAK premium win is worth 0.75 to 5 times the bet. Wilds are available on all but the first reel, and they substitute for all pay symbols.
>To 'make it rain' as such, players will want The Money Men Megaways' selection of features - random wild modifiers, and free spins, to, um, do their thang? Sorry. Anyway, here are the features.
In the base game, whenever a wild symbol hits on the initial result before any tumble, there is a chance that it randomly triggers one of these modifiers:
When triggered by landing a wild on reels 3 or 4 in the base game, the round starts with 10 free spins. During free spins, when wilds land, in the initial results before any tumbles occur, it is guaranteed to trigger modifiers. Wilds landing on reels 2 and 5 trigger the same modifier as they do in the base game – wild adds and Mystery symbols. If a wild lands on reels 3 or 4, +2 free spins are awarded, and the general win multiplier is increased by +1, +2, or +3 randomly. The multiplier is collected, and its current value applies to all wins in the round.
The free spins round may be bought from the base game for 100 times the bet. When buying free spins, players can expect a theoretical return value of 96.01%.
>Sometimes, when a corporation tries to be all 'hip' and 'with it', the results can be pretty cringey. Like, why are these suits in their ivory tower with their boardroom meetings and whiteboard markers trying to be all street? And while there was some mental prep for cheesy moments going into the review, it didn't take long to shrug off the snobbery and just go along with The Money Men Megaways' hippity hoppity flow. While no expert on what's 'cool' in the world of hip hop, The Money Men Megaways tunes were pretty, uh, dope, is that the word? And even if elements of cringe did arise, it felt like it was all done in fun, maybe not to the same creative level as East Coast vs West Coast, but fun all the same.
Just like the characters above the reels are an interesting bunch, so are The Money Men Megaways' mixture of random wild modifiers. None of the modifiers are majorly innovative in and of themselves, yet when brought together, coupled with the delivery method and the wild symbol free spins trigger, it felt pretty fresh. Potentially exciting, too, and as always, this was more so in free spins. More than one wild modifier may trigger at the same time, so wild symbol additions coupled with a sprinkling of Mystery symbols can work out a treat. The multiplier might not rise as mightily as a regular rising multiplier in a Megaways slot, but it's a useful tool to have lying around. That leaves max win, which at 10,000x the bet isn't the biggest in a Megaways slot, but no slouch either.
If all this talk of max win and bling is getting obnoxious, here's a quote from Geraint Anderson's book 'Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile' that might offer up a form of defence: 'Life is a sh*t sandwich. The more bread you got, the less sh*t you eat.' Bread, in this instance being the slang word for cash, of course, and if you're in the mood for attempting to get your hands on some cash in a colourful celebration of bling in a hip-hop environment, then The Money Men Megaways makes for an entertaining option with plenty of bounce.
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