Knight Rider

Knight Rider Overview

If you love your 80s classic TV and can’t get enough of the Hoff, you’ll love this new slot from NetEnt and Universal Studios based on the well-loved series Knight Rider. In addition to being one of the strongest themes out there, this game performs very well mechanically too. It has a decent RTP, a sizeable top win and plenty of feature content to keep gameplay interesting. If you feel like you’d like to catch criminal scum in the dead of night and grab some great payouts while you’re doing it, this is the slot for you.

The bonus content here starts with the walking multiplier wild feature, available in both the base game and free spins. These special wilds can land anywhere and move one reel to the right every time they are part of a win. They can help boost your winnings by up to 5x. Next is the Turbo feature. Triggered randomly, this feature deposits three or four of these walking multipliers onto the reels at once to boost your winning potential. Next is the free spins feature, triggered by landing three or more of the Knight Rider logo scatters on the board. This is a multi-level free spins round. Finally, there is also a bonus buy option.

Theme and Symbols

Knight Rider must be one of the most well-known and iconic TV series of all time. Yes, watching it again in 2022, you can’t help but cringe at the cheesy script, terrible special effects, and hilarious action scenes. Still, it formed the basis for many action series that followed it and has to be credited with establishing many television firsts. NetEnt has done an excellent job of presenting the theme, too, with David Hasselhoff in all his permed glory and leather jacket on every reel.

The background for this slot naturally is a highway somewhere on the outskirts of town at night. Although the crime-fighting duo did a lot of their work during the day, the most dramatic scenes with the car were usually shot at night and formed the thematic spine for the programme. In the foreground is the asphalt leading into the distance. Whereas towards the top of the screen, players will be able to see the tower blocks and lights of a city at night – always crawling with criminals that operate “above the law”.

The playing board has been styled to look like the instruments that you can see in KITT, with red glowing lights.
The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the 10, J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The A is the most valuable, paying out at 1.5x the stake. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the radio watch, the steering wheel, the truck, the KITT voice equalizer, and Michael Knight. Michael is the most valuable of this symbol, paying out at 4x the stake for the top combination. The specials for this game are the KITT wild, the logo scatters, and the knight chess piece scatter.

Game Play

Knight Rider is played on a 5-reel, 4-row machine with 26 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.
The betting range for Knight Rider is 20p to £40 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Knight Rider is 96.07%, which is about average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 7,000x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is the walking multiplier wilds bonus. These special wilds can land anywhere on the board at random. When they do they remain on the reels, moving one reel to the right with every win with them involved. They have a multiplier attached to them that correlates to the reel that they are on. For example, if one of these symbols is on reel 2, it will be worth 2x, and so as it moves, it gains value from left to right. The highest it can be worth is 5x. These multiplier wilds can also join up to give greater payouts.

Next on the feature list is the turbo feature. This bonus is triggered completely at random and deposits between three and four multiplier wilds on the board to help boost winning potential.

Then there is the free spins round, triggered when players land three or more of the Knight Rider logo scatters on the board simultaneously. You are then granted ten free spins. There are four levels of free spins in this game. You move up the levels by filling a meter with knight symbols. The further you move up the levels, the more walking wild multipliers will be granted to you, along with two more free spins for each level you rise.
Finally, players can also buy their way into the features using the bonus buy option. However, this is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

Knight Rider the slot has to come close to Knight Rider the TV show. We really enjoyed this trip down memory lane and got a few nice wins. The multiplier walking wilds are essential here to boost winning potential. The free spins, however, were very difficult to move up. All in all, though, a good slot from an accomplished designer.