Rocco Gallo

Rocco Gallo Overview

In this new game from providers Play ‘n GO, you are tasked with helping the gallant rooster, Rocco, defend the hen house from the crafty fox. As you will discover, he is an incredibly macho rooster with swollen biceps and a stare of quiet yet stern defiance. In terms of the gameplay, this is a five-reel three-row game with twenty pay lines. The betting range is between 10p and £100. Unlike some of Play ‘n GO’s games, Rocco Gallo has an impressive RTP of 96.29% and a tantalising top payout of 10,000x the stake. This game is also available on mobile, tablet and desktop platforms.
There is just one bonus feature in this game; however, it is good. Called the instant prize feature, it is triggered when players land three or more golden egg scatters on the reels simultaneously. Essentially it is a re-spin bonus feature that starts with three re-spins. The only symbols that fall from this point onwards are more golden eggs, within which are special prizes such as instant cash wins and multipliers. We will explain this bonus in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The narrative created in this game is one of a rooster and his harem being threatened by the hungry fox. However, the world Play ‘n GO has developed is more complex than just a few hens in a hutch. Indeed, this provider has imagined an entire Italian town full of various hens of all ages and characters and made the rooster a juiced-up mega cockerel with more muscles than The Rock. Indeed, this game is much more The Sopranos than Chicken Run.

The background for this game is the quant Italian town in which this drama plays out. This is a very handsome town with terraces of brightly coloured taverna-style houses and a market square. Although made to look like a real town where humans might live, the designers have kept plenty of elements in to remind us that chickens occupy these residences. These touches include the cockerel weather vane, the eggbox-style rooms and the hutch-like structure of some houses. It really is a clever combination of aesthetic influences that makes this theme work so well.
The playing board has been designed to look like a traditional market stall with a stripy awning and wooden frame.

The symbols are split into low-value, high-value and special symbols. The low-value symbols are the mushroom, onion, broccoli, pepper and tomato. The tomato is the most valuable of these, worth 3.5x the stake. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the yellow framed chicken, the green frame chicken, the pink framed chicken and the red framed chicken. The red one is the most valuable, worth 25x the stake for the top combination. The specials comprise the Rocco wild and the golden egg scatters.

Game Play

Rocco Gallo is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 20 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 Rocco Gallo is 10p to £100 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 medium range. The return to player percentage for Rocco Gallo is 96.29%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 10,000x your stake.

Features

The only feature in this game is called the instant prize bonus. It is activated when three or more of the golden egg scatters land on the reels at the same time. Players are then given three re-spins. Each symbol position then becomes its own reel. On every re-spin, you are guaranteed a minimum of two golden eggs. These golden eggs have within them instant cash prizes and multipliers. These instant prizes will be 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 5x or 10x your total bet, and the multiplier will be 2x.
When you land an instant prize, it is collected in a pot. Any multiplier found in the feature is then applied to that pot. The golden egg will then be removed from the screen. Every time a wild or new egg arrives, the re-spins are topped up to three. This maxes out at 155 re-spins. If you manage to land this amount of re-spins, the cash pot is paid out, and the feature ends.
During this feature, you will also notice that some reels become highlighted. In these reels, only Rocco wilds or Vinnie Volpe (the fox) symbols can land. These either collect the cash pot (Rocco) or reduce the cash pot to zero (Vinnie). Landing them at the same time will also see the cash pot awarded. The maximum size the cash pot can grow to is 6,000x the stake.

Conclusion

Incredibly well thought through and impeccably designed, this game is a real laugh and one that even the most dower of players will crack a smile for. The theme, although wacky, is a lot of fun and engages you in a way that other games sometimes struggle to do. This is probably because of the high-quality graphics and cheeky narrative. Winning potential-wise, things are pretty rosy, too, with a decent RTP, a good top payout and a relatively mild volatility rating.