Battle Chess (0)

Battle Chess
First release date
1988-12-31
Platform
Amiga Apple II Atari ST Commodore 64 Mac Nintendo Entertainment System 3DO Apple IIgs Amiga CD32 PC Sharp X68000 FM Towns NEC PC-9801 Commodore CDTV
Developer
Interplay Entertainment Corp. Beam Software Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher
Interplay Entertainment Corp. Electronic Arts Data East Corporation Pack-In-Video Co., Ltd
Theme
Battle Chess
Franchise
Battle Chess

Overview

Battle Chess has been quoted as “a chess game for people who don’t like chess”. Each piece is brought to life by adding comical animations to them, moving across the board and violently attacking one another.

Depending what piece attacks which, different attack comes into play. For example: if the player takes a knight with a knight he will cut his enemy limb from limb until all that is left is a bloody mess; however, if the player's knight gets close enough to take the queen he will cleverly dodge her incoming attacks and deflect her magic back upon her.