Dead or Alive 2

Author Tom Wilson

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It’s a game that takes us to a Wild West location, and it’s the usual image of a dusty old prairie town that we see behind the reels and as part of the surrounding decorations.

On the reels, some symbols are Western-style Royals, while others show images of objects (whiskey bottles, boots, revolvers, sheriff’s badge), scatters and the five bandits (wilds).

Dead or Alive 2 Data and Features

Reels5
Pay lines9
Max cash jackpot$2,500.00
Payout Percent96.8
Wild SymbolYes
MultiplierYes
Betting Range$0.09 - $9
Coin bet range$0.01 - $0.5
Coins per line2
ProgressiveNo
Max coins jackpot5000
Max coins0.5
Scatter SymbolYes
Free spins availableYes
Bonus GameNo
Buy featureNo
Game themeWestern
VolatilityHigh

Developer

NetEnt, a company with Swedish origins, is the creator of Dead or Alive 2, obviously a sequel for another slot machine. The original was very popular, and it was well deserving of a sequel.

Typically, slot machines from NetEnt will have low to medium volatility, some of the best designs and features around, and mostly average-sized payouts (with good RTP though).

Other slots of theirs that I’d recommend, from the list of popular titles, would be Gonzo’s Quest and Starburst.

How To Play

Wagers start from a minimum value of $0.09 per spin, with the option to go as high as $18. This corresponds to a line bet between $0.01 and $2.

It’s not the type of game to give you a lot of winning combinations, as there are only 9 active lines on its 5×3 reels. Even so, the game is capable of paying incredible prizes, and it does it with features that you already know, just with bigger potential than ever before.

Special Features

There are actually five different wild symbols, each one with a different outlaw as its image, and a different reel to land on. These are substitutes, and they are going to act as replacements for any regular symbols.

Scatter symbols will be used to trigger the game’s excellent prizes, with five such symbols paying an impressive 2,500x total stake.

Those same scatters can be used to get into the free spins. There are three versions for this feature, each one with another level for the volatility and different payouts.

Old Saloon: this is the version that resembles the original game, using sticky wilds and 2x multipliers.

Train Heist: has free spins where the multiplier increases with each round where a wild lands, which also adds one extra round to the total. Once you get to a 16x multiplier, you receive an extra 5 free games.

High Noon: this is the version of the free spins that’s got the highest returns (more than 100,000x total stake possible), but also the highest volatility and risk.

It’s a version of the Old Saloon feature, where wilds of 1x to 3x appear on the reels (based on the number of wilds landing on the same column), and then they will multiply each other when contributing to the same combinations. That, plus the wilds are sticky, for added effect.

Maximum Payouts

Dead or Alive 2 is an incredible game, with huge potential, the highest of all times actually. It has the potential to pay back your wager at a multiple of over 100,000x, which is the highest ever right now. It’s the reason why the game’s wagers don’t go higher than $18 per spin.

It’s a very high volatility game, and that’s not something you find easily in NetEnt’s collection. With high risk, comes great potential though, and in the long run this slot machine is expected to have a return to its players of 96.8%, which is well above the average.

As you can see, as long as you can take the punishment of a high volatility slot, it’s one of the better options in this category of riskier titles.

Summary

It’s a top choice, for any player that enjoys NetEnt’s content, but also wants one of the highest volatility and most rewarding games around today. With 100,000x+ prizes possible inside, it’s going to be difficult for any other slot to match it.

Author Tom Wilson

Chief editor and creator, Tom drives the direction of Casino Lion with the goal to provide the best and most honest resource for online gambling enthusiasts in Canada