At The Copa Slot

It'll get your shoulders waving too, if not your hands and legs as well, hehehe. As with most of BetSoft games, especially the 3D ones, the graphics used are simply brilliant, exciting and very appealing. A little cartoonish no doubt, and a bit of exaggerations in the figures too, but anything goes with cartoons, can't really complain about that. It does make playing the game more pleasing though.

The Ocean is the Wild symbol. It doesn't pay anything for itself, argh, it doesn't double any wins with it, but substitutes for other symbols except the Scatter and the Jackpot symbols. The Shoe is the Scatter symbol, also not paying anything for itself, appearing only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and getting all 3 of them at the same time awards a Free Spins game with a random multiplier of 2x up to 10x. Choose a dancing partner to be the Extra Wild symbol during the free spins. The Chilli is the Jackpot symbol, 5 of which awards 1 of 3 Jackpot prizes, depending on which active payline the 5 symbols land. The jackpot prizes are only active when playing with the maximum bets. As for the other symbols, the Lady Dancer pays 500x, each of the 2 Male Dancers pay 300x, and the others pay from 100x to 25x, all per line bet for 5 of each kind. Overall, it's a low paytable.

In the base game, when a Wild symbol lands in the center of reel 3, it turns into a full Wild Reel and awards 1 Respin. If a win occurs in the respin, the multiplier is increased by +1 and 1 more Respin is awarded, up to the maximum of 5x multiplier. Getting 2 Male Dancers on either side of the Lady Dancer on reels 1, 2 and 3, awards a Bonus round. Pick one of the 2 Male Dancers to win an instant cash prize. Honestly speaking, my best win came from the Wild Respin feature, and not from the Free Spins game nor from the Bonus round. That Wild Respin feature kept respinning up to the 5x multiplier level, ending it up with a very nice 5-of-a-kind win, for a 122x total bet win. That was my only good win on this game, but I have only played it a few times so far, so the best possible win is still not known to me, but I doubt if any win can be very big. The low paytable doesn't provide for that.

Secondly, I do not like either the dancer dress and the dance figures she is making around the slot. Thirdly, I do not like the slots that say something like: loose massively during normal spins to win much during the features (during free spins, from a special wild or during the bonus game).

„At the Copa“ is such a slot, which promising very much, it takes money and gives you nothing in return, not even the game thrill you were waiting for. At least in my case in nearly 250 spins I only had 4 times the Wild symbol in the central position (which thus becomes sticky and makes a multiplier to increase with each winning combination it is a part of) and never reached the Free Spins or the Bonus Game. Although, at least from paytable, both Free Spins and Bonus Game will bring with them high returns, it is better to not wait for them to be triggered.

With 30 paylines , playing for a total minimum bet of 60 cents, after almost 200 spins I had lost more than 100 Euro. Too much, although at one point in time when I got a Wild symbol in the central position on reel 3, I thought my luck has changed for better and the sun has risen on my street. It was not to be so and except for the gain of some 800 credits (16 Euro), the rest of the game I had only small and quite rare wins, with an average of 10 to 15 credits (20-30 cents). There was only one compensation maybe: namely about 3 times I had 4 "Chilly Peppers" symbols on the screen. At 5 peppers, one of the 3 jackpots had been triggered, but it seems that this time was not the best for this to happen.

Who knows, maybe I have got only a bad day, but as I said , except for the too much small wins the slot has also other less appealing parts.

I have to say that I am not a big fan of Betsoft games but I was quite surprised with the graphic and animations of this game. The sexy dancing Latino to the left really caught my eye.

As for the game itself it’s a standard 5 reel 30 payline slot. Minimum bet for this game is 0.60 euros which is too high in my opinion. The game has a lot of tempting bonus features. If you get 3 dance shoes symbols it triggers the free spins feature. You choose your dancer and it becomes wild for the rest of the free spins. I have to say that I have never triggered this feature so I can’t share any actual wins from it.

The wild symbol in this game is the Ocean symbol. If it comes in the center reel in the centre position the entire reel will become wild. If a win occurs you will get another free spin. If a win occurs on that free spin the wild reel will be a 2 x multiplier for that spin. Another win triggers another free spin with a 3x multiplier. This goes to 5x reel multiplier or if a win doesn’t occur. I also have never gotten this bonus but it would be interesting to see it on a bigger bet.

Now the bonus I have seen is the dance bonus round. It’s an interesting movie with two dancers trying to impress the sexy lady. The maximum win I got from this bonus was 16 euros. I really like the features in this game but it just doesn’t pay out. The bonuses come way too late. With a bet of 0.60 my balance went down like a rock in the water. This little fiesta was over too soon. Overall a 6 out of 10.

It's really a pity that the Jackpot prizes can only be won when playing with the maximum bets. BetSoft should have allowed it to be won at any bet size, just as with Marvel Super Heroes Jackpot prizes. That should boost up players interest to play more of 'At the Copa', with some nice jackpot prizes to chase for. The paytable could do with better win values for all the symbols too.