Check vs Mate

Bought this game 10 years ago, just now tried playing it again. Wow, even at a sale price of $5 what a waste of money. If you enjoy Chess, there are countless ways to play it on the PC without this overblown hunk of trash. Lots of pretty graphics and animations, which are apparently so good, not only did the developer NOT provide a way to skip those animations, but they actually provide a pop up instruction every time you try, warning you that you must finish watching said animations. Apparently a straight port from their xbox game, there's no consideration at all for PC players, you have a static three options for control layouts, because the dozy gits couldn't be bothered to allow the option to define your own setup. Why? Because they couldn't actually be bothered to optimize their sorry excuse for a game for play on PC. Literally any chess game for the PC from 1990 is a better option than this. A sorry attempt to pretend to be something it is not, there is no "Battle Chess" here, nothing like it despite how the trailers and graphics try to make it seem. It's just standard chess with flashy graphics. The campaigns are just mirror image sets of artificial difficulty with limited piece options. I imagine I realized what a mistake this purchase was, ten years ago, and then forgot in the intervening years. Too late to get a refund now of course, so I'll have to literally HIDE the game from myself, so I don't forget and try to play it again somewhere down the line.

Cool game. It's not terrible by any means. I'm just struggling to figure out which niche this game fills that isn't done better by a competing product. It's designers obviously meant it to be in the mold of the classic Interplay chess game Battle Chess, but it doesn't have even half of the old games charm. In the old Battle Chess every piece had a different animation depending upon which pieces were doing battle. Knight vs Pawn looked different that Pawn vs Knight, for example. In this game, every piece has a generic "burn the other piece" attack animation that's the same no matter which pieces are doing battle. And that's the main problem with this game. There's far better chess simulators if you just want a great chess game. The ONLY reason to play this one instead of another is for the cool animated pieces and unfortunately they skimped on creating unique battle animations. I would honestly recommend just buying the original Battle Chess over this one if that's what you're looking for. Otherwise just go with Chess Ultra.

Went looking for a modern version of BattleChess, found this. Was not disappointed.

I've had this game in my library for a while, so I thought I give it a try. Even tho I am not really interested in Chess (also not very good in it). Let's talk about the positive things first: I like the looks of all figures and that they have animations while walking, hitting your figures and even at the end when you loose/win. Even if you have no clue about chess, like I do. There are at least some tipps. But that doesn't mean you automatically win. For these few minutes, I actually had some fun. But now let's talk about the negative side: As some have already said, it is dead in the multiplayer. The price, definitely set too high. This game is not worth almost 25€. (I only have this game, because I've bought a random steam key bundle and it was way under 10€) And I can not agree with one review I have read here. The opponent does not take up to 15 minutes to make a move. At least not when I have played Battlegrounds. All in all: I really think, that you can actually have some fun, even more than a few minutes. Especially if you know what to do. But for a not even casual player, I got bored pretty fast. I am really not a fan of chess. But I know you have to think much and it ain't that easy. So I have big respects for others knowing chess. But still this game is definitely not 24,50€ worth. You can get a better game or even more smaller games. Therefore I do not recommend this and give it a 5/10. ______ Get goo GOO alu!

Glitched. FIRST game and the Knight became stuck even though it had multiple legal moves.

Prolly one of the first games I bought on Steam, still looks gorgeous! p.s. runs natively well on my ultrawide monitor with no black bars

I like it, but I love chess. If you like chess, don't let the other reviews keep you from trying it. It have interesting chess problems and puts a little twist on the game of chess, but just enough. Graphics are superb and music is good. Chess rules still apply. You can play regular classic chess or choose games like the attacking piece becomes the opposite color. Also there are options of having a mini type game or combat when fighting for over a square. I like the chaos type mode where the board arrangement looks insane! Pawns scattered, sometimes two or three queens. Black and white pieces are mixed up, kings unprotected and it's very challenging to play.

Best Chest Game Ever.

There are plenty of chess games out there for free that will satisfy the itch of playing vs AI, and the puzzles, unique modes, and animations (I really don't need to keep seeing the queen fondle her breasts every time she captures a piece) are nothing to write home about. Save your money.

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