Combat Chess
Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players bored with the simple "black vs. white" chess board. Beautifully done in rendered 3D…
Combat Chess is a strategy developed by Mind's Eye, released 30 December 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Combat Chess is
Combat Chess is a strategy game developed by Mind's Eye and released in 1997. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players bored with the simple "black vs. white" chess board. Beautifully done in rendered 3D graphics, Combat Chess adds stunning animation sequences during gameplay. Combat Chess is written to Grand Master standards and supports play against human opponents. Combat Chess includes 3D rendered pieces from a medieval setting with fantasy elements. Pawns become dragons, Knights become real knights, the Black Knight’s turning your pawns to green jelly, and the Queen’s threatening to deliver a majestic head-butt to your king. With over 600 animation sequences, each piece includes…
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Combat Chess launched on 30 December 1997, within three weeks of Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and Strikers 1945 II.
Released around the same time: Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Strikers 1945 II.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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