I'd appreciate it if there were more as I've only played three games and have seen them all, multiple times but it's not the worst thing. It's nice to see it come to life and the kill animations are pretty funny. Otherwise, I'd recommend this to anyone who likes chess. I was playing as the black team and stupidly allowed the bishop to take my queen, because I thought that him being all black signified that he was on my team. Sometimes two tracks end up playing over eachother and given that this is a game that is strategy oriented, it's a major drawback.Īnother glitch that I encountered (at least I think it's a glitch, if this isn't then it's pretty poor game design) is that character models can just go all black sometimes. It's not that there is anything wrong with the music itself, more that the music is rather loud and conflicts with the ingame sound effects. The music does my nut in and I'd highly recommend turning it down before playing. The game also is bound to crash, after changing any of the options, so expect that to happen.

I've had it constantly crash on me, not even with an error message, just minimizing and dying for no reason. Environments: Choose between 3 unique Battlegrounds.While I do recommend this, I must warn that this game has quite a few problems.Achievements: Earn achievements and trophies.Dozens of unique battles, idle and movement animations bring the battleground to life.

Animations: Watch your army execute vivid capture moves as they take an opposing piece.

Tutorials: Video tutorials explain the rules and basic strategies of chess with a little bit of humor.

Place pieces strategically on the chess board to test strategy.

Battleground Training: Control your environment.

Skill Challenge: Test your Chess skills by completing game play scenario challenges in a certain number of moves.

Turn-based Multiplayer: Play against the computer with scalable difficulty or against live opponents via the internet.

Only Battle Chess brings chess to life by combining a magnificent chess logic system with colorful, humorous, and dramatic three-dimensional animations.Ī new version of the classic animated chess game for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 is in development! Updated with all new animations and features, this is the ultimate version of Battle Chess.

Lots of computer chess games capture the basics of chess. Combat, mortal combat, is the heart and soul of chess, but this aspect of it can only live in the mind's eye. In player's minds, the bold knight, resplendent in his armor of silver or ebon, sallies forth and slays the foul footsoldier. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field.Įveryone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board. The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better!

Battle chess game