Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior Online Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

The early 90s saw the release of one of the most popular arcade games of all times, Street Fighter 2. NetEnt has acquired the license to the game, and they’re now releasing a branded slot, with excellent graphics that bring back the 8-bit style and make sure that it’s endearing, rather than dated. You play as one of the 8 characters (Dhalsim, E. Honda, Ryu, Guile, Chun Li, Zangief, Ken or Blanka), each one bringing something different to the table.

While the low value symbols still have the Royals, the four high value ones come in victory and defeat variants, depending on the character that was selected as well.

Developer

NetEnt, a giant of the online gaming industry, has a huge collection of slot machines available, and many of them still look good even after a decade since they were released. Masters of design, and offering one of the best looking collection of slots around, they’re doing an excellent job at providing players with a great experience in their games. A game like Street Fighter 2 is not easy to turn into a great slot machine, but they managed it.

How To Play It

To begin playing Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior, you have a wager of $0.20 to $700 to work with.

As for the way that it works, you are playing on 5×5 reels, and Clusters of 4+ matching symbols will get you paid. Various modifiers, bonus games and free spins will help out along the way. More on that below.

Special Features

As the game loads, you get the invitation to pick one of the 8 fighters, to represent you in the game. RTP changes for each one, between 96.04% and 96.08%, as does the volatility, and that’s all due to the various wild modifiers that they get to apply. Each of the 8 characters will do something different, with some giving you vertical or horizontal stacked wilds, others adding them on the same reel, row, or at random.

Once the game gets going, and you start forming your winning clusters, you will notice that there is another important feature, the Avalanche. It’s often found in slots these days, and it relies on a mechanic which removes winning symbols and allows others to come in, so that there is a chance for new wins to occur.

A meter is going to be filled, as you get high value symbols to form winning clusters. Collect 7 wins in this meter, to activate your character’s modifier, and get multiple wild symbols on the reels.

You also get closer to winning or losing the fight with your opponent, as you are getting wins with Victory or Defeat high value symbols.

As a loser, you get access to Car Smash, a bonus game where you make picks and you get paid 5x to 15x the stake.

As the winner, you get free spins, in a feature called Beat the Boss. It’s going to play as in the base game, adding a multiplier which is associated with the different bosses that you’re facing. As you beat each one, the game gives you another target. Four bosses are available, including Balrog (2x multiplier), Vegas (3x), and then Sagat (5x), and Bison (10x).

Maximum Payouts

In a slot machine where the volatility is medium to high, having a jackpot of up to 7,142x the stake is going to give you a pretty good target to aim for. Expect an adequate RTP as well, of 96.06%.

Summary

Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior is very well designed, and as a trip down memory lane it will work out for a lot of players. It’s offering more than enough, to make it attractive to anyone that has played the original arcade.