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Commanders, assemble your armies! "Battle vs. Chess" calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multi-media world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command! As a Commander, execute skillful maneuvers on the game board and catapult yourself directly into the battle with devastating attacks, chessman vs. chessman. Do you want to go down as a pawn - or reign as a king? It's your decision!
Commanders, assemble your armies! "Battle vs. Chess" calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multi-media world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command! As a Commander, execute skillful maneuvers on the game board and catapult yourself directly into the battle with devastating attacks, chessman vs. chessman. Do you want to go down as a pawn - or reign as a king? It's your decision!
Features
- Two captivating strategic campaigns with a total of 30 missions
- Thrilling battles in interactive 3rd person action mode
- Individual beat 'em up battles for each character in unique arenas
- Latest Fritz! Chess algorithm with additional opening library
- Exciting PvP duels on LAN and Internet
Shopper Reviews
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Not what I'd hoped for but good nonetheless.
As a chess game, This game is quite good, But there are plenty of quite good chess games around, I was looking for something reminiscent of good old "Battle Chess" on the Amiga/C64/heaps of systems, This unfortunately isn't quite as good as that one, Graphically of course its heaps better, But the animations are over before you know it and there is only one animation for attacking no matter the unit.
The folder issue mentioned by nef601 has been fixed and you can drag it wherever you like and it will still run. However, The install is a bit ... Odd?. When you first mount the disk, it suggests you drag the folder into applications, however, that folder contains an installer program that you must run to install the game. No big deal, Just doubling up on the copying and then having to delete the installer program later.
All that being said, as a chess game, it is quite good, There is no waiting around while the AI thinks things through as you see in some games, And the AI also appears to be intelligent enough to set traps several moves in advance.
The mini games, and other game variations also give it some replay value, Having a campaign is also quite interesting, I haven't actually played this mode yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
I give it 4/5 stars as it should be rated it for what it is, not what I hoped it would be. -
Doesn't seem to boot with 10.6.7
I've tried it on a C2D MacBook Pro and Core i5 iMac both running 10.6.7 and the game doesn't boot. No error message, nothing.
[Editor's Note: Move the game to the Applications folder. It will not run if it is not in the Applications folder. Uploading a new version that will fix this problem]2 out of 3 shoppers found this helpful.Was this helpful? Yes No
