Light up the fireworks on the slot from NetEnt. Double Bang Crackers will take you to the sprawling metropolis on the Huangpu River for a reel adventure with wild substitutions, stacked and double symbols as well as a free spins round with unlimited retriggers that can lead to wins in excess of 1,000 times your bet.
Double Bang Crackers is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 10 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. Set off the crackers on desktop or mobile from 0.10 to 200 credits per spin. The game has medium volatility with an RTP of 96.10%.
The skyline of Shanghai’s Pudong district is in the background of the semi-translucent game window. Pudong is something of a satellite district the city started to build two decades on the opposite side of the Huangpu river on drained swampland, just across the historic centre of the metropolis. Today it is a sprawling district with family attractions, office skyscrapers and at one point the tallest TV tower in the world.
The slot has eight pay symbols with the low value appearing as single symbols only while the premiums and wilds can land as double symbols, creating the potential to lead to pays with 9OAKs for the royals and 10OAKS for the latter. They start with the card royals from J through to A at the low, awarding 2x your bet for a single five of a kind and 6x your bet for a nine of a kind. The premiums are drums, red packets, fans and gongs. Hit five on a line to win 3x to 9x your stake or 10 for 10x to 100x your bet. The wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except scatters.
In the base game, only the four top-paying symbols can appear stacked while in Free Spins the wild symbol can also land stacked. Hitting a full stack on a reel will double the symbols from three to six. One symbol will count as two symbols with only one more needed on a pay line on reel two to score a three of a kind. Having five double symbols on a pay line will award a win for a 10 OAK.
Hitting three, four or five scatters anywhere on the reels in one spin will trigger 5, 15 and 30 free spins respectively, which can be indefinitely retriggered. Two to five scatters on a free spin will award an additional 2 to 30 free spins. No multiplier in free spins but the Wild symbol will appear now stacked as well and will double if it covers an entire reel. Payouts for Wild symbols are the same as for the top-paying gongs.
Final Verdict
The original Double Stacks slot left barely an impression in the casino community when it was released in 2018, hence, IÂ doubt Double Bang Crackers will fare any better with our Asian gaming friends. The gameplay is simply too boring to stay on it for more than a few minutes and the win potential is way too low to attract hardcore slotters. It peaks at just 1,000 times your bet in a single spin. Not something that will set off big fireworks.