About the Hotline game
Hotline review
Hotline is a great slot machine game from NetEnt. It offers a beautiful execution and a lovely retro cool theme. The gameplay is fairly basic, but it has a couple of small twists that keep things interesting in longer sessions. Hotline is a low volatility game with a good return to player, especially if you play all three hotlines.
Theme and Storyline
Hotline is a slot machine game that takes inspiration from Miami Vice, Magnum P.I., and Scarface. The slot captures the essence of the classic 80s television show with a lovely beachfront theme that features palm trees, pink sunsets, white suits, and red Ferraris. The VHS style intro and the fabulous mock eighties rock soundtrack make the experience even better.
Graphics, Sounds and Animations
Hotline offers slick modern art styles with a beautiful execution. The VHS intro setting the scene, and the sunset background is the exact Miami pink rendered by 1980s film stock. The soundtrack is a fabulous mock eighties rock track that will take you back to the 80s as fast as anything on the scores of Top Gun or the Breakfast Club. All of this is animated beautifully.
Gameplay
Hotline is a five by three slot machine with thirty winlines. The main twist on general gameplay are the hotlines each of which increases your bet. All three of the rows can be selected as a hotline. If a Wild lands on the hotline, it expands and triggers a respin. The result is that the gameplay, though fairly basic, has enough variety to stay interesting if you’re in for a longer session.
Wilds, Bonuses and Free Spins
If you hit a wild in a hotline, then it expands to fill all three spaces on a reel and triggers a respin with the expanded Wild locked in place. You can trigger further respins if you hit more Wilds on your hotline or hotlines. If you hit three Scatter symbols, you trigger seven free spins. Scatters only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5.
Bet Sizes, RTP and Variance
The return to player for Hotline is 96.13% if you play it with just one hotline. Playing with all three hotlines bumps this up to 97.04%. The minimum bet per spin while playing all three hotlines is £/$/€0.45, though if you play just one hotline you can get that down to £/$/€0.15. The maximum bet per spin is £/$/€450.
