EL CARTEL

HOW TO PLAY EL CARTEL

You will end up on a street of an unknown Colombian city, where a character similar to Pablo Escobar will be keeping you company as you spin the reels. The grid is placed on the entrance of a building, and you will come across icons such as Lemons, Bells, Diamonds, Money (or Plata), as well as Plums and Limes.

The DEA Agent is the Wild that substitutes for all regular symbols, while the Jeep is the Scatter that triggers free games. That is not all you get from the 2017 release, since there are more symbols waiting for you on the reel grid on top of the building.

Apart from Lucky Sevens, there are Suitcases packed with Money, lovely Girls, Plata again, and Airplanes. Some of these new icons trigger other Bonus games.

Now, when it comes to the rules of the game, it will take you a while to fully understand how El Cartel functions. We have two reel grids, both with three reels. The Down gird comes with one payline, while the Up grid offers up to 8 paylines. To advance from the lower reel grid to the upper one, you need to collect Plata, or money.

To get more paylines on the Up grid, you need to collect Guns that will appear on the reels from time to time. If our sources from the cartel are correct, players can bet from $1 to $15 per single spin. To win payouts, players will have to land three matching icons on a payline. There is an option to nudge any of the three reels or to hold any of the three reels in order to land a payout more easily.

After each win, players will be given a chance to either collect the amount won or to boost the win or get more Plata.

Casino Bloke Best tips for El Cartel Slot

• 1Start playing on the Down grid with one payline
• 2Collect Guns to secure more paylines on the Up grid
• 3Get Plata to advance to the Up grid
• 4Upper grid offers more Bonus features and bigger wins
• 5Jeeps trigger Jeep Free Games
• 6Planes trigger Flight Game
• 7Girls trigger Girls Game
• 8Briefcases activate Deal or No Deal Game
• 9If you accumulate the Bundle symbols, you will get another win

PAYOUTS

This medium volatility game should secure regular payouts. El Cartel’s RTP is 95%, and it is a bit lower than the average, but still good enough. The Blue Lucky Seven is the highest-paying regular symbol, securing 1,000 coins for three of a kind. The biggest win players can expect is set at 150,000x bet, which is quite nice.

EL CARTEL (MGA): CASINOBLOKE’S VERDICT

First of all, it is important to say that it will take you a while before you fully understand the game. For the first half an hour, we had difficulties to remember what is what in El Cartel, how do we advance to the upper reel grid, and how do we use the control panel with nudges and holds.

Once you master that, you will begin to enjoy your stay in a Colombian cartel, and the MGA title will start to resemble a colourful arcade we all used to play back in the days, with Planes flying around, Jeeps, Briefcases packed with Money, and lovely Ladies smiling at you.

El Cartel is definitely intended for action junkies, and players looking for something simpler should look for fun elsewhere.