The Chicken Road series is a popular franchise in online casino gaming, with its quirky theme and engaging gameplay capturing the attention of many players. The second installment in this series, Chicken Road 2, has recently been released to an eager audience, promising even more exciting features and bonus rounds than its predecessor. In Chicken Road 2 this comprehensive review, we will delve into every aspect of the game, from its design and symbols to payouts, wilds, scatters, and bonus features.
Theme and Design
The Chicken Road 2 slot machine is a colorful and vibrant representation of rural life in China’s countryside. The backdrop is set against rolling hills and farmland, complete with water buffaloes grazing peacefully in the distance. This picturesque scene provides an idyllic setting for the game’s many cartoon-style characters, from chickens to pandas and even monks meditating under trees.
The reels themselves are adorned with symbols reminiscent of traditional Chinese culture, including drums, pagodas, and intricately designed wooden screens. The game’s overall art style is whimsical yet coherent, blending pastel hues with bright primary colors in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
Symbols
As mentioned earlier, the slot features a range of cartoon-style characters from rural China. Players can look forward to encountering various chickens (some flying while others are perched on rooftops), as well as pandas munching away at bamboo shoots and water buffaloes traversing rivers with cargo-filled boats in tow.
Other symbols include traditional Chinese motifs like drums, pagodas, wooden screens adorned with plum blossoms, fans waving gently in the breeze, incense sticks wafting fragrant smoke upwards towards the clouds, intricately designed wooden doors, cherry blossom branches bearing red flowers, and various farm animals such as oxen plowing fields under blue skies.
Payouts
Chicken Road 2 adheres to standard slot machine payout structures. Combinations of matching symbols on adjacent reels in an active payline from left-to-right yield rewards according to the value assigned per symbol (either by face-value or multipliers, which may be applied). Payout values will vary depending upon stake level as well.
Wild and Scatter Symbols
A "wild" chicken takes center stage here – serving multiple purposes. Firstly, it replaces all other symbols in any winning combination except the scatter ‘Monk’ – while simultaneously multiplying total winnings by two or five times respectively when part of 3-5 matching line wins involving this wild symbol.
In contrast, "Scatter" characters bearing images of sitting Monks bring benefits simply through their mere presence anywhere within reels during play. Two to six Monk Scatters appearing activate an associated free spin function offering bonus rounds – details given below in the "Free Spins" section.
Bonus Features
One fascinating feature included here lies with its many different kinds ‘Farmyard Wilds’ activated randomly either after any given standard pay-line win has been paid out – it brings several instances of these chicken-symbols, at random, taking places alongside initial reels so users must re-arrange their grid manually following such wild activation to form further opportunities towards profitable winning line combinations.