The wait is over …Relax Gaming’s Money Train 3 has been officially released!
A review of Relax Gaming's Money Train 3 including visuals, gameplay, and the challenges in creating the third edition of such a popular slot.
After a two-year wait, Relax Gaming’s Money Train is finally back! Yet, improving an already-popular slot’s visuals and gameplay wasn’t easy. Relax Gaming’s Senior Product Owner, Callum Sultana, has shared parts of the process of coming up with this game and the challenges encountered in releasing the third edition of such a sought-after slot.
Money Train 3 will be available to play for free at hundreds of providers. All will take advantage of the popularity of the previous two incarnations of the ZebraCasino’s list to offer no deposit casino bonuses to get gamblers to sign up.
Money Train 3: The Visuals
While it has remained loyal in the number as well as the gender of the main character symbols spinning across its wheels, its futuristic design offsets both the first Money Train and the second, giving the third one in the series a storytelling narrative that’s more poignant when compared to its predecessors. Even if no bonus is activated, the base game remains fascinating. The visuals can best be described as a cross between the steampunk genre and the wild, wild west. The musical score accompanying the slot confirms that.
The slot plays against a background that’s characterised by a station where a futuristic train has pulled in. This has been powered by a light blue liquid, poured into a vial. A large skull has been placed to close the liquid and to fasten the vial.
The symbols of the Necromancer, the Collector, the Collector-payer, the Tommy Gun Sniper, and the Tommy Gun Payer all look much cooler and more polished than their earlier versions.
How do you play it?
The lower-paying symbols in the slot are the diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades. The higher-paying symbols are the characters with blue, green, orange, and red background colours.
The wild symbol of the game shows a face mask with WILD emblazoned on it whilst the scatter symbol displays the word BONUS with gold coins pouring from its sides. The game’s wild symbol helps generate more winning combinations by replacing other symbols.
The Respin feature can be randomly triggered even when setting off a spin that doesn’t trigger any of the character symbols. When one of the character symbols is randomly selected, they become sticky and a new respin is activated. This goes on until none of the same symbols land on the reels or until the reels have been successfully filled. A multiplier symbol showing either 1X, 2X, or 3X triggers a respin even if it doesn’t stay on the reels.
The Money Cart Bonus Round is triggered when 3 or more scatter symbols land on the reels. Persistent gold symbols can also land on the reels and these replace scatter symbols once activated. All scatter and persistent symbols activated will remain on the reels until a persistent symbol is triggered. You will then receive 3 respins; each time you land one or more prestigious symbols, the respins will reset to 3.
The symbols that will reward you with these 3 respins include the Money symbol, the Collector symbol, the Snipers, the Collector-Payer, the Necromancer, the Absorber, the Tommy Gun Sniper, the Tommy Gun Payer, the Persistent Collector, the Persistent Sniper, the Persistent Collector-Payer, the Persistent Necromancer, and the Persistent Shapeshifter.
If the entire reel is filled with symbols, an additional reel is unlocked on the side. A maximum of two additional reels can be added to the slot.
What makes it Different?
Relax Gaming’s Senior Product Owner, Callum Sultana, explained why this online slot is already getting rave reviews even though it’s the third of its kind. So what’s the secret to a successful sequel game?
“If we shared the secret, it would no longer remain one. But something I think most players enjoy with the Money Train series is that big wins and max wins happen in different ways so essentially very few wins will ever be the same, which keeps the game fresh and allows people to have their own unique experience rather than a shared one,” he said.
However, getting players intrigued is just one part of the story; making sure the game is widely played is another. With a thousand-fold slot games out there, how can one ensure that their game becomes mainstream and outperforms other sequel games?
“I think that can be a hard comparison to make as you need success in a singular game to ever justify the sequel but what I can say is that expectations are always higher when making one.
It’s very important to remain true to the series and the original game that brought success in the first place. With Money Train 3, we struck the right balance and the real measure of success will come when the game is live.”
A Recipe for Success
Relax gaming has become one of the well-known aggregators and a gaming supplier distinguished for its dynamic content. It entered several markets earlier this year including Ontario, Italy, Spain, and even Columbia.
Sultana believes that the only element that discerns between a successful game and an unsuccessful one boils down to the game’s storytelling effect. The visuals of a slot are what keep the audience coming back for more and an effective narrative is what helps the Relax Gaming game development team engage with their audience.
