WWE Clash of the Wilds

WWE Clash of the Wilds: Slot Overview

'There are different ways to make your presence known.' Did you know? Well, you do now, thanks to a voiceover in All41 Studios' online slot WWE Clash of the Wilds - a branded slot offering entertainment to players who are partial to beefed-up men and women pretending to smack each other over. It seems like All41 Studios has been given the task of taking care of wrestling slots, as this is the second time the team has done so. The previous one was WWE Legends Link&Win which delivered a fairly common main feature, whereas WWE Clash of the Wilds has an unusual way of awarding different free spins depending on the triggering reel. Worth taking a look or tapping out from the get-go? Let's see.

The game opens by introducing four wrestling stars who appear in the ring - John Cena, Charlotte Flair, Roman Reigns, and Bianca Belair. All larger-than-life characters who ply their trade before millions in the squared circle. The rest of the view isn't as flamboyant; the background imagery largely consists of what looks like cracked concrete. Hardly adrenalised stuff, though the hip-hop soundtrack adds a certain attitude to the proceedings. Unless we are missing something obvious that will make sense to hardcore wrestling fans, the visuals failed to capture much of the excitement generated by live, professional wrestling, though the brief video clips helped.

WWE Clash of the Wilds' top rope shenanigans are available on any device, and players can select bets of 20 p/c to $/€25 per spin. A highly volatile slot, WWE Clash of the Wilds comes in four RTP settings, with 96.13% being the highest. At that level, hits come at a rate of 31.13%, and regular wins occur when matching symbols land on adjacent reels, starting from the left across one of the 40 fixed paylines.

For pay symbols, the tiles used in WWE Clash of the Wilds are divided between low-pay J-A card icons and the high-pay wrestlers – Bianca Belair, Roman Reigns, Charlotte Flair, and John Cena. A five-of-a-kind winning line is worth 1.25x the bet when made up of low pays or 5x the bet for the premiums. Wilds are key to WWE Clash of the Wilds features, and in their most basic form, they land anywhere to substitute for any normal pay symbols. Wilds also payout 10x the bet for a line of five of them.

WWE Clash of the Wilds: Slot Features

Stacked wilds are the gateway to WWE Clash of the Wilds' features. Depending on which reel the stack of three wilds land on equates to which feature is triggered.

• Landing a wild stack on reel 1 activates 6 free spins with wild blocks. On each spin, a wild block sized 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4 lands, though it may not be fully in view. Landing gold-framed premium symbols awards +1 free spin.
• A wild stack on reel 2 awards 6 free spins with wild multipliers. In this one, at least one x2 wild multiplier will land on every spin. The multiplier is applied to any win the specific wild multiplier participates in. Hitting a premium symbol with a gold frame adds one extra free spin to the tally.
• When a wild stack lands on reel 3, 6 free spins with nudging wilds are awarded. In this feature, additional wild symbols are on the reels, and when at least 1 wild hits, the reel is nudged, so it gets covered with wilds. Landing a gold framed premium symbol adds +1 free spin.
• Lading a wild stack on reel 4 awards 6 free spins with sticky wilds. When wild symbols hit, they remain in position until the end of the feature. An extra free spin is awarded whenever a gold-framed premium symbol lands.

Free Spins with Ladder Match

Landing a stack of wilds on the rightmost reel activates free spins with the Ladder Match - 3 spins are awarded at the starting prize level value of 1x the bet. When gold-framed symbols land, they are collected – the more collected, the higher the prize level may move. Depending on the level achieved, prizes are worth 5x, 15x, 40x, 100x, 500x, 1,000x, 5,000x or 10,000x the bet, respectively. Now, when a level is complete, the number of collected golden symbol frames is reset, and spins are reset back to 3. Also, after every 5 golden frame symbols are collected, a booster point is reached (except in the first level). When reaching a booster point, an award is won - up to 10 extra golden framed symbols, up to 3 extra spins, or a safe zone. A safe zone upgrades the current jackpot to one between the current jackpot and the next level jackpot.

Buy Feature

Players who can buy one of WWE Clash of the Wilds' features get five options. These are free spins with wild blocks for 35x the bet, free spins with wild multipliers for 35x the bet, free spins with nudging wilds for 35x the bet, free spins with sticky wilds for 40x the bet, or free spins with Ladder Match for 50x the bet.

WWE Clash of the Wilds: Slot Verdict

It took a while to warm to this one. WWE is famous for being a completely over-the-top form of entertainment where the action might be preplanned and choreographed, yet you never know exactly what might happen next. Well, when a superstar goes up against a no-name unknown, you kinda know who is going to win, but still, someone might get thrown into the commentator's desk, smacked over with a chair, or backflipped on from the top rope. Whatever takes place is bound to be bonkers, yet a bag of laughs for the fans.

As a wrestling slot, WWE Clash of the Wilds didn't quite get there a lot. It's got four wrestling stars, and there are video clips, plus a bit of commentating, but it's pretty low-key a lot of the time. The background image is about as uninspiring as it gets and rarely is an 'anything can happen' atmosphere achieved. Then again, this is an online slot, not standing amongst thousands of screaming Hulkamaniacs at Madison Square Gardens; it can only do so much. What it does with wild stacks triggering different features depending on which reel it lands is kind of interesting. The system does add variety to the game. In an industry when 1,000x+ bonus buys are becoming the norm, buying the WWE Clash of the Wilds bonuses is comparatively budget-friendly, including the main event Ladder Match, where the top prize maxes out at 10,000x the bet.

Add it up, and you've got a wrestling game that doesn't exactly blow doors down with extravagant flamboyance but should have enough shoved in there to entertain fans of this style of entertainment. Unlike wrestling IRL, WWE Clash of the Wilds isn't scripted, so it's both capable of dishing out rewards, as well as leg drops, head butts, or whatever else happens during a match when it isn't going someone's way.