El Paso Gunfight xNudge: Slot Overview
If movies have taught us anything about the Wild
West, it's how ruthless, lawless, and 🍊 downright mean it could be. However, fact can
sometimes be stranger than fiction, and nowhere is this maxim more appropriate 🍊 than in
the infamous El Paso Gunfight. Calling it by its other name, 4 Dead in Five Seconds
gives a 🍊 better indication of what it was all about - a hail of bullets that left four
corpses in its wake 🍊 while creating a legend of the West in the process. The legend’s
name was Dallas Stoudenmire, and his claim to 🍊 fame has been further immortalised by
Nolimit City in their slot El Paso Gunfight xNudge.
Nolimit City is certainly no
stranger 🍊 to this part of the world, having blown players away with the likes of
Tombstone and Deadwood. El Paso Gunfight 🍊 xNudge is a follow-on of sorts, though not a
direct sequel as such. It feels like Nolimit has a real 🍊 interest in the Old West which
they channel into making solid games. Part of that passion is apparent visually, yet
🍊 music has also been a real highlight. So, while El Paso Gunfight's music doesn't get as
frantic as Deadwood's, its 🍊 upbeat saloon soundtrack is the perfect counterpoint to all
the gunfire, bullets, and blood being splashed across the screen.
Set against 🍊 a shelf
of liquor bottles, El Paso Gunfight xNudge is played over a 5-reel grid, offering up to
43,334 ways 🍊 to win when fully expanded. As well as choosing stakes from 25 p/c toR$/€50
per spin, players can also choose 🍊 their stance. This means flicking a switch above the
reels to set them in a 4-3-3-3-2 formation which is the 🍊 highly volatile setup, or a
2-3-3-3-4 layout which is the extremely volatile option. One other difference between
the two is 🍊 that the Marshal Badge and the Deputy Badge land on opposing reels (more on
that below). Moreover, when free spins 🍊 trigger, players can also alter the volatility,
except in Drunken Gundfiguth&r… Spins as you will see. As well as volatility, 🍊 the RTP
comes in two levels – 96.06% or a reduced 94.24% version.
In either setting, three
matching symbols are required 🍊 from the leftmost reel to trigger a payout.
Interestingly, the 10-A royals making up the low pays have a more 🍊 gothic look than the
usual Lucky Luke font typically used in a Western slot. Moving on to the 4 high 🍊 pays
symbols, we find the four souls who fell during the infamous gunfight. When you dig
into the story, it 🍊 is pretty complicated, but the four characters are the former
Marshall George Campbell, his friend John Hale, Constable Krempkau, and 🍊 a Mexican
bystander who unfortunately ended up in the way of Stoudenmire's pistol. Scoring a line
of five premiums is 🍊 worth a payout of 2 to 6 times the stake.
El Paso Gunfight xNudge:
Slot Features
The man Stoudenmire appears on the 🍊 xNudge Wilds, alongside a host of
other features, including Deputy and Marshall Raid, Gunfight Spins, Deputy or Marshall
Gunfight Spins, 🍊 Drunken Gundfiguth&r… Spins, 4 Dead in 5 Seconds, and feature
buys.
Starting with Stoudenmire xNudge Wilds, these are 3-row high wild 🍊 symbols
appearing on reels 2, 3, or 4 and always nudge to be fully visible. For every step the
Stoudenmire 🍊 Wild nudges, its win multiplier increases by 1. If more than one of these
wilds is in play, the multiplier 🍊 values are added together.
Deputy and Marshall Raids
are trigged when the Deputy Badge or Marshall Badge land in view. Deputy 🍊 Badges convert
all low-value symbols to one random low pay symbol, with the badge becoming the same
low-value symbol. The 🍊 Marshal Badge does the same thing, except it converts all
high-value symbols into one random high-value symbol. If both badges 🍊 land at the same
time, they transform to wilds and increase the reel area to 4-3-3-3-4.
8 Gunfight Spins
are triggered 🍊 when 3 scatters land in the base game where you choose the volatility
that suits (high or extremely high). Scatters 🍊 become jumping wilds during the feature
leaping to a new position on each spin. If a jumping wild lands on 🍊 a reel with a
Stoudemire Wild, any multiplier is doubled. Landing Deputy Badges or Marshall Badges
awards an extra spin, 🍊 and upgrades Gunfight Spins to either of the 3 rounds covered
next.
If you manage to land 3 scatters + a 🍊 badge in the base game, then 9 Deputy or
Marshall Gunfight Spins are awarded. Alternatively, badges during Gunfight Spins
upgrade 🍊 trigger the upgrade to this bonus game. Badge symbols landing in this round act
in the same way as described, 🍊 with the added benefit of them remaining in position for
the rest of the feature. Triggering scatter symbols also become 🍊 jumping wilds and can
upgrade Stoudenmire Wilds.
What you really want though, is 3 scatters to land with both
badges in 🍊 the base game, or both badges in Gunfight Spins. This leads to 10 Drunken
Gundfiguth&r… Spins, played on a 4-3-3-3-4 🍊 grid. Here you get 5 jumping wilds and
sticky Stoudenmire xNudge Wilds. Stoudenmire Wilds can be upgraded as mentioned above,
🍊 although now they lock in place for the rest of the round.
El Paso Gunfight xNudge also
has one more lethal 🍊 respin feature stuffed up a sleeve. Known as the 4 dead in 5
seconds feature, one respin is awarded where 🍊 all 5 character symbols (including the
Stoudenmire wild) land at once. Stoudenmire Wilds expand to cover all three middle
reels 🍊 for the respin and its multiplier appliers to the respin payout.
Lastly, for
players who like to fast forward to the 🍊 best parts, El Paso Gunfight xNudge lets
players buy Gunfight Spins, Deputy Gunfight Spins, Marshall Gunfight Spins, Drunken
Gundfiguth&r… Spins, 🍊 a 4 dead in 5 seconds Respin, or a lucky dip for 80x, 400x, 400x,
800x, 300x, or 238x the 🍊 bet respectively.
El Paso Gunfight xNudge: Slot Verdict
Let’s
just say it from the outset, El Paso Gunfight xNudge is another wild 🍊 stallion of a ride
from Nolimit City. Of their three Westerns to date, El Paso might not be the most
🍊 immediately attractive one, as its low key saloon doesn't grab you the way Deadwood's
grim small-town setting did, or even 🍊 Tombstone's unusual black, white, and red colour
scheme. The brown tones and plinking piano create an almost warm, inviting environment
🍊 to come in, kick your feet up, maybe sample some moonshine before maybe having a
chinwag or round of cards 🍊 with the locals.
That impression quickly fades, however, once
you're knee-deep in El Paso Gunfight's action, which is as volatile or 🍊 extremely
volatile as ever - depending on the setting you go for. Then you start to realise how
clever the 🍊 saloon location is. It's not the kind of place you expect a frenzied
shoot-out or some massive feature to erupt 🍊 in, so when it does, the juxtaposition is
even more jarring. Blasts of adrenaline pop at regular intervals, and nowhere 🍊 more so
than the 4 dead in 5 seconds feature. Whether triggered naturally or bought, you are
looking at one 🍊 short sharp hit of a spin.
Following on this point, El Paso Gunfight
continues Nolimit's tendency to include a menu of 🍊 bonus buy options. None of the price
tags might be as eye-catching as San Quentin xWays perhaps, but 300x for 🍊 a single
respin is not to be trifled with. In many ways, the intensity of the features
encapsulates the spirit 🍊 of the four dead in five seconds story where a crazy amount of
action was crammed into a very short 🍊 space of time.
The game might not have a bucking
bronco released from the pen feel Deadwood had, yet El Paso 🍊 Gunfight xNudge gets real
close at times and in many ways surpasses its older siblings. One area is potential
where 🍊 wins of up to 44,440x the bet are possible. This is obviously higher than the
previous two, and after seeing 🍊 a number of Nolimit slots achieving their max win, there
is little doubt some lucky gunslinger somewhere is going to 🍊 hit that.
If there is one
genre Nolimit City repeatedly gets right it is the Western one, and El Paso Gunfight
🍊 xNudge is another strong entry. It might not have the initial aesthetic impact of the
previous two, but when it 🍊 comes to features, potential, or sheer manic action, it's
quicker on the draw and blasting most of its competitors before 🍊 they've even realised
they're in a gunfight.
