Dead or Alive 2 Game Review

Dead or Alive 2 Game Review

Dead or Alive 2 Game Review – This is a Wild West-themed video slot with 5 reels and 9 paylines. The game will take you back to the 20th century, and it is all thanks to NetEnt, who created the original game, and now made us very happy with its sequel. This basic slot offers truly impressive visual and audio effects, and it has a couple of features that are rewarding.

As a consequence of the Flash era ending, Dead or Alive was subsequently converted to the HTML5 format. The controversy that ensued, with many punters accusing NetEnt of having “nerfed” the game, and something we brought up in one of our most popular articles, seems to have had little impact on its status and popularity. NetEnt themselves have repeatedly denied having made any mathematical changes to it and that’s that. Play at Tortuga Casino!

Though the old retro visuals of the original are in no way off-putting and even hold some sentimental value to us, the sharp HD graphics and cutscenes of Dead or Alive 2 are indeed impressive. The symbols on the reels pay tribute to the original, though with updated artwork. You’ll see A to 10 royals and more rewarding whiskey bottles, boots, cowboy hats, revolvers and sheriff badges, the latter being the most valuable giving you 100 times your stake for five across a full payline. The wild is represented by each of the 5 outlaws and substitutes for all symbols bar the scatter. As previously mentioned, Dead or Alive 2 also includes a Scatter win jackpot – land 5 scatters in the base game, and you’ll win 2500 times your stake.

Dead or Alive 2 Game Features

Players can either use the feature buy option to skip the main game and head straight to the Free Spins feature or try to land 3 or more scatter symbols simultaneously anywhere on the reels.

Once in, you’re given a choice to play one of 3 different games of varying volatility: Old Saloon, High Noon Saloon and Train Heist.

• Train Heist: comes with an increasing multiplier. Whenever a wild lands on the reels, the multiplier increases by 1 while also adding 1 extra spin to your total. Now, if the multiplier meter reaches 16x, five additional free spins are awarded.
• Old Saloon: fundamentally the same as good old Dead or Alive. All wins are multiplied by 2 here, and any wild landing on the reels locks in position for the remainder of the bonus. Landing all 5 outlaws will give you 5 extra spins.
• High Noon: by far the most volatile of all three options, the High Noon free spins make use of NetEnt’s “MAX” concept and come with a staggering record-breaking max win of over 100,000 times your stake, which at the time of writing is higher than any other non-jackpot slot out there. Brace for impact – it’s virtually the original Dead or Alive on crack. The very same features of the Old Saloon free spins apply here as well, but land more than one wild on a reel and they’ll multiply! In other words, 2 wilds become a 2x multiplier, 3 wilds become a 3x multiplier, and so on.

The Dead or Alive 2 slot has a couple of exciting features and seems much more interesting than the first part. Features include Scatters, Wilds, Sticky Wilds and 3 different types of Free Spins – Old Saloon, Noon Saloon and Train Heist, plus some multipliers. All game characters can be Wild and the Wild can act as a substitute for all the symbols in the game except for the Scatter. The wild symbol can form win lines both on its own and when it substitutes in a win.

Scatter appears only during the base game, and you will need a minimum of 2 symbols anywhere on the reels to form scatter wins. Additionally, 3 or more scatters anywhere on the reels will trigger the Free Spins bonus game.

Dead or Alive 2 Game Review

Dead or Alive is a cult favourite but the Dead or Alive 2 slot blows the original game out of the water. Obviously, the graphics and animations were going to be dramatically improved after 10 years but the gameplay has gone to a whole new level.

DOA2 as its affectionately known incorporates the original feature from Dead or Alive with the Old Saloon Free Spins feature which a nice touch too.

However, it’s all about the High Noon Saloon Free Spins feature where the multipliers can have a devastating effect to give you payouts of 40,500 x your stake on each free spin.

It has a max win of 111,111.11 x stake which makes this game one of the highest payout slots around and certainly in the Wild West. If you want huge wins, try Nolimit City’s San Quentin which offers 150,000 x stake wins per spin.

Needless to say Dead or Alive 2 is as volatile as slots come, and that’s a great thing because it will ensure it becomes a cult favourite like its predecessor. All that’s left for you to do is ride into town with the band of outlaws and play the meanest slot of the West!

Dead or Alive 2 Game Review – Bonus Rounds

The bonus feature will undoubtedly be the primary reason why every gambler should spend time and money on Dead or Alive 2. It can literally bring you millions. Here is how the whole thing works: the goal is to hit at least 3 scatter symbols anywhere on the reels to access the free spins bonus mode.

If you are lucky and hit one on every reel, you will be instantly rewarded 2500 times your stake and then proceed to the next step. Once you score 12 free spins, you will be notified by a pop-up message on the screen. This will lead you to the free spins bonus rounds.

Dead or Alive 2 Game Review – Return To Player

The Dead or Alive 2 RTP is 96.8% which is high for an online slot. The base game RTP is 68.6%, whilst the Free Spins RTP is 28.2%. The bigger wins will come from the 3 free spins features.

Dead or Alive 2 Game – Theme and Paytable

The Dead or Alive 2 Slot is colorfully designed to represent the Wild West’s cruel and yet attractive atmosphere. Players will be met by flirting girls, bottles of whiskey, cowboys’ shoes, and revolvers. On the reels, you’ll also find the A, Q, J, K, and 10 other symbols in the typically western fashion.

Apache Kid, Della Rose, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and Belle Star are the wilds that players can use to improve their winning prospects.
The wilds replace all other symbols, and if you manage to get 5 on a single payline, you will claim 166,666x your overall stake.

Dear or Alive 2 Slot it’s all about the bonuses and free spins.

You will easily recognize the Scatter symbols (a bull skull with two guns above it), and by claiming 3 of them in a single reel, you will unlock the free spins feature. 2, 3, 4, or 5 scatters can bring you multipliers of 2, 4, 25, or even 2,500 of your total bets.

Dead or Alive 2 Game Final Words

Personally, we were over the moon that NetEnt managed to respect and pay a proper tribute to the legacy of the original. It was perfectly timed, just in time for the 10th anniversary. The software developer clearly took their time to create the perfect sequel to the iconic Dead or Alive slot.

We scored fewer times during the game, but each was a considerably larger amount compared to low volatility slots. Also, the rewarding free spins bonus rounds kept me on my toes throughout the entire game.

All in all, Dead or Alive 2 is everything you would expect to be and is a great addition to the extensive NetEnt game portfolio.