Wild Wild West: The Great Train Heist Review

Expanding Wild is the fan favourite and the most dramatic mechanically. When a wild symbol lands on any reel during free spins, it expands to cover the entire reel and triggers a re-spin with that reel locked. If the re-spin produces another wild on a different reel, that expands and locks too, triggering another re-spin. The chain can extend to cover multiple reels with expanded wilds before the sequence ends. On a 10-payline grid, three or four expanded wild reels simultaneously cover most of the payline structure. x2 Multiplier Wild is more consistent across a full spin count — every wild-assisted win pays double, and multiple wilds on one payline compound the multiplier. Regular Wild and Spreading Wild tend to produce the most evenly distributed wins across the feature without the dramatic peaks that Expanding Wild produces. For maximum single-session potential: Expanding Wild. For consistency: x2 Multiplier Wild.

When the Safe bonus symbol lands on reel 1, reel 3 and reel 5 simultaneously in the same base game spin, the Pick and Click bonus activates. You see three safes on screen and select one. The selected safe reveals a prize between 5x and 50x your total bet, which is added to your balance immediately. The other two safes remain unopened. The bonus is base game only — it cannot trigger during free spins. The positional requirement — Bonus symbols on those three specific reels, not just anywhere — makes it less frequent than a standard scatter trigger. Each activation is guaranteed to pay something between 5x and 50x, so it never disappoints in terms of absolute return, but the range between minimum and maximum prize is wide enough that the same trigger can produce very different outcomes depending on which safe you pick.

Yes — available at Ontario-regulated casinos carrying NetEnt software and at most international platforms serving Canadian players. The 96.74% RTP is consistent across operators. Stakes run from €0.10 to €100 with CAD equivalent applied. The Wild Selector Wheel, all four wild mechanic types and the Pick and Click bonus are fully accessible without regional restrictions. Mobile performance through NetEnt Touch technology is reliable on iOS and Android. Bonus buy is not available — free spins trigger organically from three or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels, and Pick and Click requires Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 simultaneously.

NetEnt built Wild Wild West in a graphic novel aesthetic rather than the photorealistic or rendered 3D style common in 2017 slots. Every symbol has bold black outlines, flat colour fills and exaggerated proportions typical of American comic book illustration from the 1960s–1980s. The Bandit Leader is drawn with an oversized hat and a sneering expression straight from a pulp western villain. The Sheriff looks like a square-jawed comic book hero. The train and horse symbols are rendered in the same flat, outlined style. The background depicts a frontier town at night with colour choices that evoke old western comic book printing — deep blues, oranges, sandy yellows. The art style is original — no licensed characters or properties — and it has aged considerably better than realistic rendered graphics from the same period because comic book illustration doesn’t suffer from the same graphical quality inflation that photorealistic slots do over time.

Both are NetEnt western slots but they play very differently. Dead or Alive 2 runs 96.82% RTP at high volatility with a 111,111x max win — one of the highest ceilings in NetEnt’s entire catalog, built around sticky wilds in free spins at extreme variance. Wild Wild West runs 96.74% RTP at low–medium volatility with a 500x ceiling — the mechanic variety comes from the Wild Selector rather than raw multiplier power. Dead or Alive 2 is a high-roller, high-patience title where sessions can be long and dry between major feature events. Wild Wild West is a more casual experience where free spins trigger reasonably often at up to 30 spins per activation. For players who want western theme with manageable variance and a feature that changes character each session: Wild Wild West. For players chasing a transformative single-feature payout at any volatility level: Dead or Alive 2 is in a different category entirely.

The 10-payline structure is a deliberate design choice that keeps the per-payline cost of each bet low while maintaining a €0.10 minimum bet. On a 10-payline slot, €0.10 per spin means €0.01 per payline — a low individual line stake that suits the low–medium volatility profile. Increasing the payline count to 20 or 30 would either raise the minimum bet or reduce the per-payline stake below a practical level. The trade-off is that 10 paylines means fewer simultaneous winning combinations per spin than wider-payline structures — but on a 5x3 grid with wild mechanics active across all 10 lines in free spins, the effective win-per-spin from expanded wild coverage across 10 lines is substantial. The 500x max win ceiling is partly a consequence of the 10-payline structure: fewer lines means fewer simultaneous combinations paying at once, which caps the realistic maximum per spin.