Battle Chess
Game » consists of 15 releases. Released 1988
One of the most well-known chess computer games, with each chess piece springing to life (and death) with fantastical, yet comical animations.
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Brought chess into the modern era. 0
Battle Chess has been quoted as “a chess game for people who don’t like chess” and that sums it up perfectly. Bringing each piece to life by adding comical animations to them, moving across the board and violently attacking one another, quashing the stereotypes and vivifying what is now considered an old-fashioned board game. The best way to describe it would be to think back to the original Star Wars when C3PO and Chewbacca were playing 3D chess on the Millennium Falcon, or even Wizard Chess fo...
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A chess game with a twist (ouch) 0
A chess game at its core, this game is the perfect example on how aesthetic production values such as the anmations in this case make or break the game. In this case, they absolutely MAKE the game. Every time one of your tiny chess figures throws one of the opposing team's from the board a neat little animation depicts the fight. the animation is very slick, considered this game saw its birth in the C64 era and had been a gfx favourite for many people. I spent hours and hours to see every possi...
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