Geese With Attitude

Geese with Attitude: Slot Overview

These days, hip-hop and gangster rap, in particular, is firmly part of the mainstream. It wasn't always this way, though. Back in the late 80s, early 90s, gangsta rap was still emerging on the pop culture radar, and one of its earliest, most influential stars was LA group N.W.A. Where one minute, teens were walking like an Egyptian with the Bangles or cranking out Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody', they were starting to sing along to parent-unfriendly tracks like 'F*** the Police' and 'Gangsta Gangsta'. It might have felt like a whole lot of hot air at the time, but the genre stuck and is still rollin' in its 5.0 today.

Enter Geese with Attitude or G.W.A, an online slot from Games Global partner All41 Studios. This is a playful take on the infamous rap group N.W.A, where instead of real-life artists such as Ice Cube, MC Ren, and Dr Dre, we get a trio of birds decked out in bling and a backwards cap. The action takes place downtown on a city street, all skyscrapers in the background and pigeons pecking at the road up front. Tunes are important in a game like this, and for the most part, Geese with Attitude delivers a decent level of bounce without necessarily scoring a gold record with its soundtrack. All in all, you get the impression All41 Studios had a bit of fun with this, and the feeling is infectious.

Available on all device types, Geese with Attitude offers a stake range of 20 p/c to $/€25 per paid spin. It is played on a gaming grid consisting of 5 reels and 3 rows of symbols, with 40 paylines included for regular winning combinations to be evaluated along. For volatility, All41 Studios has classed Geese with Attitude as being 'Very High', and it comes with four RTP settings, the maximum value weighing in at 96.1%.

The geese main characters are used as the three premium symbols while following them are street art style J-A card ranks. Hitting a five-of-a-kind winning line pays 0.5 to 1 times the bet when consisting of royals or 2.5 to 7.5 times the bet for the premium tiles. A blazed-looking crowned emoji is Geese with Attitude's wild symbol. Present on all reels, wilds are worth up to 12.5x the bet for a line of five, or they may be used to replace any normal pay symbol.

Geese with Attitude: Slot Features

Geese with Attitude's features aren't as fresh as the vehicle which delivers them. For the most part, it'll be stuff that players familiar with what the Games Global's family of studios have been up to will quickly recognise. The Epic Strike is Geese with Attitude's headliner, joined by two free spins bonus rounds – Notorious W.I.L.D and Dice Roller. Spray can scatters are present only in the base game on reels 2, 3, and 4. Landing 3 of them pays 1x the bet and triggers the free spins selection, where players pick their preferred bonus round.

Notorious W.I.L.D Free Spins

Notorious W.I.L.D awards 6 free spins where when wild symbols land, they expand to fill their whole reel. When a retrigger symbol lands on reels 2, 3, or 4, then +1 free spin is awarded.

Dice Roller Free Spins

In this round, 3 free spins are initially awarded. Players collect Dice when they land to level up, and each level has its own Jackpot. The starting Jackpot is 1x the bet, and when a level is complete, the collected number of Dice is reset and respins return to 3. The levels are:

• Level 1 – collect 5 Dice to increase the prize to 5x the bet.
• Level 2 – collect 10 more Dice to increase the prize to 15x the bet.
• Level 3 – collect 15 more Dice to increase the prize to 40x the bet.
• Level 4 – collect 20 more Dice to increase the prize to 100x the bet.
• Level 5 – collect 25 more Dice to increase the prize to 500x the bet.
• Level 6 – collect 30 more Dice to increase the prize to 1,000x the bet.
• Level 7 – collect 35 more Dice to increase the prize to 5,000x the bet.
• Level 8 – collect 40 more Dice to increase the prize to 10,000x the bet.

For every 5 Dice collected, a Booster Point is reached, though not in level 1. Upon reaching a Booster Point, players are awarded either up to 10 extra Dice, up to 3 extra spins, or a Safe Zone. In a Safe Zone, the current Jackpot is increased to a value between the current Jackpot and the next level Jackpot. When spins run out or all levels are completed, the round ends. If the highest level is not completed, the prize is the achieved level Jackpot or the latest Safe Zone.

Epic Strike

Keep an eye out for the G.W.A. vinyl symbol in the base game or in Notorious W.I.L.D free spins. When at least 3 of them land, then players win a cash prize. It is possible to win prizes of 1x, 5x, 15x, 40x, 100x, 500x, 1,000x, 5,000x, or 10,000x the bet when 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 G.W.A. symbols are in view, respectively.

Buy Feature

With the bonus buy option, players are able to buy Notorious W.I.L.D free spins for 35.6x the bet or Dice Roller free spins for 50.5x the bet.

Geese with Attitude: Slot Verdict

To some, rap might have felt like it was going to quickly fade away when it first appeared. However, you know something is deeply embedded in the cultural psyche when a parodic game like Geese with Attitude comes along decades later. Naturally, an online slot designed to be enjoyed by as broad a range of gamblers as possible is unlikely to possess anywhere near the same level of confrontational edge found in even one of N.W.A.'s pinky toes. More so if you're going to use birds instead of actual gangsters in the leading roles. Yet, the weirdness has a way of working, and Geese with Attitude is one of those games you can picture the studio having a few laughs while making it; maybe they're N.W.A fans? That enthusiasm had a palpable feel when Geese with Attitude was in motion.

From a technical perspective, it wouldn't have been awful if the studio had shaved off some of the imagination it used to come up with the theme and shared it with the features. Basically, what's available where is what came in WWE Clash of the Wilds. That is, Geese with Attitude has essentially pulled over the Ladder Match bonus and the free spins with nudging wilds from the wrestling game. Nothing wrong with reusing code per se, but the playful enthusiasm on display in the rest of Geese with Attitude might have benefited from a bit of extra creativity on the gaming side of things.

Just thinking out loud here, and since the lack of major feature innovation is more of a nit-pick than a major criticism, it's not exactly a reason to toss Geese with Attitude in the trash heap. The gameplay might feel like a well-worn hoodie, but the rich strangeness of gangsta geese in an urban setting means Geese with Attitude provides a bit of hippin' and a hoppin'.