Cyber Attack: Slot Overview

Dip into the shady world of cybercrime with software provider Red Tiger in Cyber Attack - an online slot that is a timely reminder not to use your birthdate or '12345' or the word 'password' as a password to safeguard your personal details. In this quasi-futuristic slot, the player's job is to breach their way into the bonus round, though doing so takes pure luck rather than coding talents. However, even unsuccessful breaches trigger reel modifiers, so even if your skills aren't up to scratch or fortune's looking the other way, rewards are still a possibility. Ah, well, time to crack your typing fingers and get to hacking.

We've already mentioned the phrase quasi-futuristic, but it's about the best way we can come up with to describe Cyber Attacks' appearance. The background setting is made up of a built-up, high-rise downtown space which could be Hong Kong, São Paulo, New York, or anywhere really, like wandering through major city airports. A shady-looking dude taps away on a laptop to help emphasise the Cyber part; he's hooded, too, so you know he's up to no good – maybe gathering sensitive corporate information, gleaning damning details about a high net-worth individual, or switching info on a governmental database. Then again, maybe he's checking his bank balance? It's all a big mystery in the murky world of cybercrime.

Played on what looks like a collection of pixelated monitors is Cyber Attack's gaming grid, made up of 5-reels, 4 rows in combination with 1,024 ways to win. A highly volatile machine, the game has a maximum RTP of 96% and accepts bets of 10 p/c to £/€10 per spin. To win, you'll need to land at least three matching symbols, hitting across successive reels and starting from the leftmost side of the grid.

Landing a full 5-of-a-kind winning way awards 0.3 to 0.6 times the bet when formed of the 10 to A low pay card symbols, or 0.8 to 2.2 times the bet of the high pay symbols, which display what looks like a USB stick, a bug, an eye, an exclamation mark, and a skull. Wilds appear in the game only on reels 2, 3, or 4 to substitute for any regular paying symbol.

Cyber Attack: Slot Features

If you look next to the reels, you will see a Breach meter. Randomly between spins, in the normal game, the hacker may attempt to breach the system. If the breach is successful, then free spins are triggered. However, even if the breach is unsuccessful, one of these feature hacks is awarded:

  • Symbol Hack – a random number of the same type of symbol is dropped anywhere on the reels.
  • Multiplier Hack – activates ways multipliers of x2 to x5 on random grid positions. Symbols that land in these positions count as the number of symbols as the multiplier displays.
  • Wild Hack – wilds are activated in random positions on reels 2-4.

Free Spins

When the breach is successful, 6 free spins are awarded, bearing in mind the sixth breach attempt on the meter is always successful. At the start of free spins, a random symbol is infected with what is called the Hijack virus. During the round, when this chosen symbol appears on the reels, it is hijacked and stored above the grid. Up to 20 symbols can be hijacked and stored like this. The other feature hacks mentioned above may also randomly trigger – only one feature can trigger on a single spin, though.

Now, if the infected symbol lands on a position with an activated ways multiplier, the number of hijacked symbols from that position will be as many as the multiplier displays. Wilds are also hijacked when they appear. Moreover, the free spins counter may glitch out at random and increase in number by 1 to 3 free spins. After the last free spin, all hijacked symbols are put onto the reels from the top row and from left to right. The breach progress bar is reset after free spins end.

Cyber Attack: Slot Verdict

For all the good ideas poured into it, Cyber Attack feels like something is missing that might have elevated it higher. It's hard to pinpoint what exactly, but there's something a little generic about the way the theme has been used. Fair enough, picking cybercrime sort of narrows a studio's range of choices down in areas like audio and visuals. You're kind of stuck with urban environments, high-tech imagery, and people in hoodies. It would have been brave indeed (or is that foolish?) if Red Tiger had created a slot about a ring of scam artists catfishing lovelorn marks online with stolen identities. Maybe if there's a sequel?

Whether there will be a sequel or not will, in part, boil down to how well Cyber Attacks' gameplay is received by gamblers. All things considered, the gaming was okay; the Breach feature makes sense from a hacking perspective, and the good thing is when it's unsuccessful and free spins are not triggered, players get a consolation prize in the form of one of the three feature hacks. Those aren't bad either, though one can't help wondering how they would have performed together rather than being limited to just one at a time. Even then, lucky hackers can hit wins as high as 10,500 times the bet. To be fair, stacking up a big number of collected high-value infected symbols in the bonus round, to be sprayed across the grid at the end, would be pretty neat

While in motion, Cyber Attack was fairly entertaining and a competitive game within its genre. However, it's also a little vanilla for a slot based on crime and a touch corny at points, so in the end, Cyber Attack didn't breach so deep into the psyche that it prompted a rush back for repeat hacks.