Danger High Voltage 2: Slot Overview
Jazzy, funky, disco slots might be a dime a dozen, but amongst the bunch, diamonds occasionally bubble to the top, and few have bubbled as hard as Big Time Gaming‘s slot Danger! High Voltage. The game delivered a frenetic combination of tunes and artwork, while players could pick from an incendiary duo of bonus rounds once triggered. It might be hard to believe, but Danger! High Voltage hit the scene in 2017, and 7 years after the event, Big Time Gaming has returned to the dance floor with the sequel Danger High Voltage 2.
One of the selling points of the original release was its raucous party at the disco ‘tude, expressed by a high-energy soundtrack courtesy of American band Electric Six and a dizzying light show. For Danger High Voltage 2, the banging tunes are back, and if anything, the visuals are even more dizzying. A bizarre piston-pumping contraption houses the gaming grid and the Megadozer, while the optical cacophony happening in the background might make anyone sensitive to light shows nervous. Energy, a hint of danger, it all sets the scene for the sequel to strut its stuff.
When ready to get all dangerous, gamblers have bets of 20 c to $/€20 they may select, as well as a bonus buy if they’d like to skip over the base game. This highly volatile machine is powered by BTG’s own Megaways mechanic, meaning on each spin, 2 to 7 symbols may land on each of the 6 reels of the grid. Ways to win depend on the number of symbols in view, up to a maximum amount of 117,649. As for RTP, the figure is 96.66%, or 96.77% when buying free spins.
Day of the Dead at the disco, is that one way of describing Danger High Voltage 2’s pay symbols? The list has 9-A card ranks, a taco, a disco ball, a bell, and a jewelled skull like Damien Hirst’s ‘For the Love of God’ piece he sold for $100 million. The pay symbols aren’t worth anywhere near that, where 6 matching royals award 0.3 to 0.5 times the bet, whereas 6 matching highs are worth 0.6 to 2.5 times the bet. Present on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5, wilds substitute for anything except scatters.
All winning symbols (not scatters) are removed from the gaming area by the reaction feature, creating spaces on the reels. Symbols drop, and new ones come in from above to fill the gaps and provide another opportunity to win something.
Danger High Voltage 2: Slot Features
Like the original, Danger High Voltage 2 offers two selectable free spins rounds once the bonus is triggered or bought, but both are different from those that came before. Hopefully, you like the Coin Dozer effect because it is connected to many of the features, as well.
Megadozer
As seen in Bonanza Falls, above the reels is a Coin Dozer, which may drop one or more Bonus Coins on any spin, including reactions. In the base game, each Bonus Coin reveals one of these:
- The win multiplier for the current spin increases by +1. Each base game spin starts the win multiplier at x1.
- A scatter is added to the reels.
- A wild symbol which may have a multiplier of x2, x3, or x5 is added to the reels. All wins with a Multiplier Wild are multiplied by the displayed multiplier value.
Scatters
Landing 3 or more scatters in any position triggers the bonus round. Players then choose whether to activate Fire In The Disco! or Danger Danger!! free spins.
Fire In The Disco!
Players get 6 free spins with this bonus. Each Bonus Coin dropping from the Coin Dozer reveals either a wild, which persists on the reels for the next two wins, or an additional free spin. Hitting 2 or more scatters awards +2 extra free spins plus 2 free spins for each scatter beyond the second. Scatters may land on the leftmost and rightmost reels only.
Danger Danger!!
Players receive 12 free spins in the Danger Danger!! bonus. Each Bonus Coin dropped by the Coin Dozer puts either a wild with a multiplier equal to the Feature Wild Multiplier value on the reels, or it increments the Feature Wild Multiplier by +1. The Feature Wild Multiplier starts at x2. Only Bonus Coins on reels 3 and 4 will deliver wilds. Hitting 3 or more scatters awards +2 extra free spins plus 2 free spins for each scatter beyond the third.
Bonus Buy
Buying entrance to the bonus round costs 100 times the bet. Once activated, players can choose the free spins round they would prefer.
Danger High Voltage 2: Slot Verdict
Danger! High Voltage was a slot that slapped from start to finish. From the wild disco atmosphere, like a house party on the verge of getting out of hand and the police being called in, to two bonus rounds, each one exciting in its own way. High Voltage spins had that insane up to x66 High Voltage Wild, Gates of Hell had sticky wild symbols. Danger High Voltage 2’s features didn’t feel as insane by comparison, but no doubt, when they’re brought together and pushed, they can really cut a rug if we’re to believe the claimed 52,980x max win potential – putting it more than three times higher than the original’s (it should be mentioned that we’re yet to see a max win hit on DHV, so take these numbers with a grain of salt).
You get a taste of possibilities in the base game when the Megadozer increases the win multiplier or drops wild multipliers on the reels. The headline DJ hits the main stage for free spins, where, once again, gamblers have to make the hard choice of which bonus to activate. On an eyeball level, Fire In The Disco! appeared to drop a lot more wilds onto the reels than Danger Danger!! More reels can accept Bonus Coin wilds in Fire In The Disco! spins, after all. However, Danger Danger!! has the Feature Wild Multiplier, which has definite benefits. Tough choice, as in the previous slot, both selections have their pros and cons.
When considering all the angles, however, it’s not obvious Danger High Voltage 2 will make anywhere near as big of an impact as the original did. Perhaps when the original was released, its features at the time had a more noticeable freak factor to them. Since then, slots have grown, morphed, and mutated to the point that it now takes something extraordinary, almost obnoxious, to really stand out from the bunch. It’s hard to pinpoint much about Danger High Voltage 2 that is obnoxiously extraordinary, but it’s a well-made slot, a fun sequel (albeit a bit slow-paced), and a solid excuse to dust off the gold medallion and platform shoes to get a-boppin’ out at the disco.
Good
It’s not as ground-shaking as the original, but Danger High Voltage 2 provides a convincing excuse to bust out your best disco moves.
