Street Knockout

Street Knockout by NowNow Gaming Overview

NowNow Gaming and Hacksaw Gaming came together to deliver the powerful punch with Street Knockout. Consisting of cascading reels, cluster payouts, knockout multipliers, and excellent bonus features like Golden Fist, Street Knockout is definitely worth looking into.

Pros

• Multiple features, including free spins
• Cascading reels and cluster payouts
• Excellent visual effects and design
• Max win of up to 10,000x

Cons

• High volatility
• No bonus variety

Street Knockout Video Review

Before playing Street Knockout for real money, check out this video review. After you’re fully acquainted with the base game mechanics and features through the video, you can practice them in the free slot demo mode to get the hang of things.

Street Knockout Slot Review

Street Knockout is among the rare breed of online slots that manage to remain well-balanced when everything is considered. This brawler-themed slot has excellent multimedia elements that Hacksaw Gaming is known for, along with innovative gameplay mechanics. I’ll further discuss different elements of this video slot below.

Theme

As you might have seen in top online casinos out there, eye-catching and interesting games are usually preferred over their modest counterparts. Street Knockout, luckily, has such an intriguing theme that ignoring it is, honestly, next to impossible.

The synopsis of the game reads, “In the heart of the city, Street Knockout determines who truly rules the underground. Fighters from all walks of life, including brawlers, gang leaders, and outcasts, battle it out in a fierce showdown for supremacy.” Clearly, it’s a game that’s all about winning, and I felt that the theme elevated the way I felt about the game.

Graphics, Sounds, and Animation

From a visual standpoint, Street Knockout is nothing short of spectacular. If you try the free demo, you’d find that the slot begins with a dropdown visual of a shutter, inside which the titular Street Knockout event unfolds. I appreciated how it strengthened the connection between the slot and the storyline through visual emphasis.

It’s animated to significant effect, too, where wins, payouts, or any special moments are turned into vibrant spectacles. The symbols light up during cluster pays, too, which adds more depth to the game as well.

Expectedly, the sound includes a synth-driven track with repeating electric guitar riffs, which fits both the cyberpunk and the brawler aspects of the game. Overall, Street Knockout has an excellent balance between its multimedia elements.

RTP, Payout, and Volatility

Even the best casino games in the market fail to tick all the boxes because their RTP (return to player) is average. The Street Knockout main game has an RTP of 96.3%, while another variant of the game delivers only 94.34% returns. The variant you play depends on the casino you decide to join, as online casino platforms have the right to choose which RTP they’ll feature on their sites.

I expected scarce yet substantial wins while playing the Street Knockout slot demo, as it features a high volatility math model. The highest you can expect to win is 10,000x the bet, which isn’t extraordinary, but can result in massive wins across large bets.

Speaking of bets, the range for how much you can bet across each spin of the reel is €0.1 to €100. This isn’t extraordinarily high, but with a 28.32% hit frequency rate, players can still expect to walk away with decently sized wins overall.

Gameplay

Featuring a 6×6 grid combined with the Cluster Pays mechanics, the game design of Street Knockout is both novel and intriguing. For instance, the Cluster Pays mechanics operate by executing cascades after winning combinations. The winning clusters feature five or more symbols, and new symbols, depending on the cluster, deliver new wins.

The regular symbols here include 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A, while the high-paying symbols include two female and three male fighters. The special symbols include Knockout Wilds that feature brass knuckles on a fist, Golden Fists, and scatters.

Apart from cascading payouts, the features are what bring more excitement to Street Knockout. For the most part, it’s a great game with a lot to offer.

Features

Street Knockout introduces the likes of Knockout Multipliers, Golden Fists, Power Bonus, and more. Here’s a more detailed description of these features, and whether they’re worth checking out or not.

Power Bonus

Upon triggering the free spins in the game by landing multiple scatter symbols, the Power Bonus round comes into effect. While the base game mechanics remain active, the multipliers above the reels don’t default after every spin.

• 4 Scatters – 6 FS
• 5 Scatters – 8 FS
• 6 Scatters – 10 FS

Golden Fist

Upon landing a Golden Fist symbol, you can expect it to perform one out of two possible actions. Either all the low-paying symbols will be eliminated from the grid, or it will remove all of the symbols from the reel and row it landed in altogether. New symbols appear in their places, and it can possibly lead to more cascades.

Knockout Multipliers

Knockout Wilds get their own multipliers. The multiplier value depends on which remaining symbols the Wild turns into. Again, it can perform one of two actions. If it turns into the top-paying symbol, then 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 50x, 100x, or 500x multipliers are collected. If the Knockout Feature turns the Wilds into any other high-paying symbols, then the values could be 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, or 10x.

Depending on which symbols fall, the multiplier values added to the top of the reels are applied to the win, if any.

Buy Bonus Feature

These features are available at your disposal at various price points. By spending 3x the bet, it’s 3 times more likely for players to get up to 10 free spins.

For 50x the bet, a random multiplier value between 1x to 100x across the reels are added. For 100x the bet, the bonus buy feature can trigger the free spins bonus game with 10 free spins.

While most of these features stood out to me in general, I still think that the requirement for four to six scatters to trigger the FS game is a bit higher, which isn’t like Hacksaw Gaming titles at all.