Mamma Mia is Betsoft software powered 5 reels video slot with 30 pay-lines. The main idea hiding behind this cheerful, picturesque and vivid is Italian kitchen and master-chefs. The reels are set in a restaurant kitchen with food cooking on the stove set bellow the reels. Give this rewarding video slot a spin here for free or visit any of the Betsoft Casinos to play for real money.
Before you enter this master kitchen you are advised to set your betting range. By clicking on "Choose Coin" you will set coins size which ranges from 0.02 to 0.50. "Bet per Line +/-" pot is used to set the number of coins you wish to bet per line, and "Select Lines +/-" will set the number of lines. "Spin" will set the reels in motion at the currently chosen bet, and "Max Bet Spin" will set the maximum bet allowed and turn the reels automatically at that bet. "Autoplay" is used to turn the reels without interruption for the chosen amount of times.
Pizza Free Spins feature will get activated once you hit 3 or more pizza symbols scattered anywhere on the reels. Here, you will get the chance to make pizza with the chef. This round has higher paying symbols than the base game. If you hit 5 pepperoni symbols on an active pay-line you will get 1,000 credits.
Food Cover Click Me feature will get triggered if you hit 3 or more food symbols scattered anywhere on the reels. In this feature you will have to choose one of the clickable food covers which will reveal the credits prize hidden inside.
Before you spin the reels you can click on any position on the reels to turn that symbol into the Locked Wild, which means that this spot on the reels is going to be a wild symbol for the spin to follow. Keep in mind that with each locked wild you set on the reels the cost of the spin will go up. Wild symbols act as a substitution for all symbols except for the Pizza symbol and Food Cover symbol.
When you hit 3 or more recipes anywhere on the reels you will activate 3 Critic Bonus round. In this bonus game you will have help the chef to decide on the perfect dish to serve and be scored on 4 criteria by the chef himself.
Game Play
Choose Coin: Set coins size.
Bet per Line +/-: Set the number of coins you wish to bet per line.
Select Lines +/-: Set the number of lines.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
Max Bet Spin: Set the maximum bet allowed and turn the reels automatically at that bet.
Autoplay: Turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times.
"Mamma mia" is a popular Italian expression for being surprised, delighted, or even to express disappointment. It all depends on the tone of the voice to express the correct meaning. But in this Mamma Mia game from BetSoft, it refers to the name of an Italian Restaurant, whereby a weekly Bulletin Critic is going to make a visit to the restaurant to review and to give ratings for the dishes, so the Chef has to cook up some delicious dishes for that Critic guy to enjoy and to give good ratings. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help the Chef to get good ratings from the Critic - good luck! Hehehe.
Well, believe it or not, trying to get good ratings from the Critic guy isn't going to be an easy task, but worse still, trying to get good wins from this game is even harder! Hahaha. The Wild symbol is a very dumb symbol. It doesn't pay anything for itself, it doesn't double any wins, and it doesn't become stacked or expanded. It does however, substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter and Bonus symbols, and a Wild symbol can be locked at any position on the reels or rows, with any number of Wild symbols you would like to use at any one time. Is this crazy or what? If anyone thinks that all these can be done for free - very sorry, because each locked Wild symbol would cost a bum or two, and we've only got two bums to start with, hahaha.
The Pizza is the Scatter symbol, another dumb one, no payout whatsoever for getting them, but getting 3 or more Pizza symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the 'Pizza Free Spins'. How many free spins, there's no indication at all. Sheesh! I later found out, upon playing of course, that the Free Spins game start with just 5 free spins! What the argh! During the free spins, a separate paytable comes into play, with higher win values for each different ingredients for the Chef to use, with the Carrot paying the highest at 1000 credits for getting 5 of them. No retriggering is possible I think, which is also not indicated in the blardy paytable!
The Food Cover is the Bonus symbol, yet one more dumb symbol, and getting 3 or more of them anywhere on the reels trigger a 'Click Me' feature game. Pick one Cover to win an instant cash prize. No indication of how the prizes would be, but I found out later on that it is from 1x up to 5x the total bet amount. What the argh! The Menu is also the Bonus symbol, the fourth dumb symbol in this game, and getting 3 or more of them anywhere on the reels trigger a Bonus game. Pick 1 of the 5 dishes to serve to the Critic guy to earn a reward. How's the prizes like? Only God knows I guess! Yet again, there's no indication at all in the paytable. As for the other symbols in the game, the Chef pays 500 credits, the Critic pays 250 credits, the Waiter pays 200 credits, and the rest pay from 125 credits to 50 credits, all for getting 5 of each kind. Not only is the paytable almost useless, the win values for the symbols are almost as useless too - a very low paytable, if you like to know.
Never mind if I like playing this Mamma Mia game or not, but the things that I don't like are just too many! The paytable is as good as no paytable, because it doesn't indicate the important details that any player would want to know. Not only that, the values for all the regular symbols are just too low, and the values for the Wild, Scatter and Bonus symbols are totally non-existent! I really wonder what and how these BetSoft game designers think! Oh! Before I forget, I've played this game maybe 2 or 3 times last year, and only once this year, and all the payouts that I've gotten have never exceeded 20x my bet amount. So how's that for good payouts? Sheesh!