Motley Crue

Motley Crue: Slot Overview

Lock up your ladies, players, one of the most infamous bands to emerge from the LA rock scene of the 1980s, M?tley Crüe, is in town to do a bit of riding on the wild side. The band is brought to the reels by software provider Play'n GO as part of the studio's equally famous (in gambling circles) branded rock-themed online slots which include titles such as Dio Killing the Dragon, Lordi Reel Monsters, Def Leppard Hysteria, and Kiss Reels of Rock. Motley Crue formed in 1981 and personified rock'n'roll excess, going on to sell more than 100 million albums. The band's story was told fairly recently in a biographical film called The Dirt, which in turn is based on the bestselling autobiography of the same name. Their presence now also graces an online slot from Play'n GO, titled Motley Crue (we decided to stick with the simple spelling here).

From the get-go, the online slot Motley Crue is a celebration of the sort of hedonistic lifestyle the band was famous for. With a couple of video clips of Motley Crue's members doing their thang, willing players are led back to the band's heyday for a night out that could end up anywhere. The base game action takes place outside a biker bar/strip joint in a dubious part of town while triggering free spins moves play indoors. Three of the band's tracks – Girls, Girls, Girls, Live Wire, and Wild Side, provide the icing on a game that rolls up all the rockin', neon, robustious antics which fans of the band or general rock fans should have no problem signing up to cut loose with.

Motley Crue is played on a 5-reel, 4-row game board with 20 paylines for hitting wins along. Medium volatile, the game is available to play on all devices, accepting bets of 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin. Winning combinations are formed when matching symbols land along a payline on consecutive reels starting from the leftmost side. J-A card royals make up the low pay symbols, worth 2.5 to 3 times the stake, while what appear to be Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, and Nikki Sixx are used as the high pay symbols. High pays land 1x1 or 1x2 in size and are worth 15-25x the bet for five of a kind. Last but not least is the wild symbol, which appears on all reels. Wilds have the same value as the Nikki Sixx tile and can substitute for any pay symbol.

Motley Crue: Slot Features

One good thing about Motley Crue the slot is that it's not all hair spray and eyeliner fronting. It also comes with a bunch of entertaining features such as Wild Side, Live Wire, Girls, Girls, Girls, free spins, and Kickstart my Heart.

Basegame Modifiers

• Wild Side - Wild Side re-spins can trigger at random on any non-winning spin. A barrier appears on the rightmost reel, which moves one reel to the left, filling reels to the right with wilds on each re-spin until a win is achieved. Wild Side can be retriggered up to four times by non-winning re-spins.
• Live Wire - Live Wire can trigger randomly on any regular spin. When activated, up to 5 wild symbols are added to the grid, max one wild symbol per reel. If Wild Side is active, Live Wire cannot be active.
• Girls, Girls, Girls - On any regular spin, Girl symbols carrying bet multiplier values can land on reels 2, 3, and 4. Girls, Girls, Girls is triggered when at least one Girl symbol is in view on three reels, awarding the amount on the Girl symbols. This one is not active, while Wild Side is in play, either.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5 triggers the free spins bonus round. Randomly, players are awarded 6 to 10 free spins. On each free spin, Live Wire and Girls, Girls, Girls are active - unless Wide Side is active. Wild Side triggers on each non-winning spin. Moreover, the Kickstart My Heart feature may randomly trigger on a Wild Side re-spin during free spins, capable of awarding a multiplier of x2, x3, x5, or x10 based on the barrier's position.

Motley Crue: Slot Verdict

In this era of woke political correctness, Motley Crue comes swinging through like a wrecking ball to the face, clearing away all in its path. Play'n GO has done an outstanding job of capturing the spirit of the band and reproducing it in a slot that's here to have a good time. If it steps on a few toes or hurts a few feelings along the way, it really doesn't give a fig. If you're up for some fun, the band and the slot are here to sling players on the back of a bike to head out into the LA night.

Motley Crue the slot, like the band, is something of an anachronism, not to mention utterly misogynistic. It's as if in the world of Motley Crue there are two types of women – strippers and groupies. Dubious to be sure, but if you can look past all that, then Motley Crue is like a time warp back to an earlier era when dudes were dudes, nerds were nerds, and being cool, raising hell, and getting girls was everything. Players up for a bolt of nostalgia or a taste of an earlier musical time period should get a major kick out of what Motley Crue has to offer. It's all blazing tunes, blazing testosterone, while shoving a big ol' middle finger up to 'the man' and having a bit of a laugh. The entries in this series can be hit or miss, but the gaming here is not too shabby at all, as Play'n GO blends features, feels, and 'tude into one playable rock slot.

The party didn't last forever, though. When Smells Like Teen Spirit dropped like an atom bomb in 1991, ushering in the Grunge era, it ended bands like Motley Crue's dominance of the airwaves. The music industry shifted its focus from the hell-raising streets of LA, further north, to the greyer, rainier Pacific Northwest, Seattle more specifically. Popular music's tone shifted dramatically away from the 'I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day' sort of thing to a 'Down in a hole, losin' my soul' one. However, games like Motley Crue show that the Big Hair Metal phenomenon is still alive and kicking. If you don't find the entire ethos of the genre insulting, a little degrading, then there is an exuberant, hedonistic lust for life here which is hugely infectious.