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3DO Acorn Amiga CD32 AppleII AppleII ST C64 CDTV DOS FMT PC PC98 X68K

Game

Battle Chess

Released: Oct 1, 1988

Series:

Battle Chess

Genres:

Card & Board Game Strategy Turn-based Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Themes:

Fantasy Historical Medieval

Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric Third person

Game Modes:

Multiplayer Single player

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Description from Steam STEAM

Includes Battle Chess: Enhanced! The most challenging game on Earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn, has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board. In players' minds, the bold knight, resplendent in his armor of silver or ebon, sallies forth and slays the foul foot soldier. Combat, mortal combat, lies in the heart and soul of chess, but this aspect of it could only live in the mind's eye – until now! Play against the computer or your friends, or let the computer play against itself 10 levels of play challenge even the most sophisticated player Amusing chess piece animations A challenging AI with over 30,000 moves

Description from IGDB IGDB

Battle Chess was developed by Interplay as their first project after severing ties with Electronic Arts. They designed it for the Amiga in 1988, and it was released on the majority of the other systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s as well. It was widely successful, and resulted in two follow-ups, many copy-cat games, and a remake for Steam on PC. The only significant criticism the game received was the weak chess AI, as it was not until the mid 1990s that chess ai began to consistently win against strong opponents.

Storyline IGDB

The basic gameplay of Battle Chess remains true to the board game, with the added feature of unique battle animations for each capture. These animations varied for every combination of attack vs defender, making part of the enjoyment of Battle Chess in simply discovering the various animations.

Wikipedia Description WIKIPEDIA

Battle Chess follows the same rules as traditional chess, with pieces moving in an animated fashion and battles playing out so that the capturing piece defeats its target. Furthermore, when checkmate is delivered, the checkmating piece fights and defeats the king. Since there are six types of pieces for each color, and a king cannot check (let alone capture) another king, there are a total of 35 different battle animations. The rook, for example, turns into a rock monster and kills a pawn by smashing its head, and the rook kills the queen by eating her. There are some pop-culture homages; the knight versus knight animation references the black knight fight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the king versus bishop fight pastiches the short battle between Indiana Jones and a swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The game can be also played in a 2D version with no animations, and the Amiga CDTV version has a fully voiced introduction describing the movements of the pieces for the benefit of beginners. Digitized sound is used in the MS-DOS version for all battle sound effects and is played through the PC speaker, without the need for a sound card, using a technique akin to RealSound. Battle Chess can be played against a human opponent (by hotseat, null modem or over a local area network in some ports) or against the computer's artificial intelligence (AI). The game has an opening library of over 30,000 moves (which were not available for the Commodore 64 and Apple II versions).

About Battle Chess

Battle Chess is a Card & Board Game, Strategy, Turn-based, Turn-based strategy (TBS) game released in 1988 developed by Interplay that offers Multiplayer, Single player gameplay from a bird view / isometric, third person perspective playable on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga with 59 user ratings averaging 71.1/100. The game explores themes like Fantasy, Historical, Medieval. If you enjoy Battle Chess, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: October 1, 1988

IGDB Rating: 71.1/100 (59)

Rating Count: 59

IGDB ID: 2603

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Additional Information

IGDB Rating: 71.1/100 (59 votes)

Release Date: October 1, 1988

IGDB ID: 2603

Series: Battle Chess

Платформы 14

3DO

Acorn

Amiga

CD32

AppleII

ST

C64

CDTV

DOS

FMT

PC

PC98

X68K

Genres 4

Card & Board Game Strategy Turn-based Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Themes 3

Fantasy Historical Medieval

Player Perspectives 2

Bird view / Isometric Third person

Game Modes 2

Multiplayer Single player

Companies

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Developers

Interplay

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Publishers

Dice Multi Media Europe

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Electronic Arts

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Fujitsu Interactive

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GameTap Entertainment

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Krisalis Software

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Pack-In-Video

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Keywords

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