Battle vs. Chess

[Lincoln Hudson]

With curiosity, I plugged in my Xboxthis title: It is unusual to see these games on consoles, let alonein the packaged version. It takes courage, time, to not make it aLive Arcade, even class. First impressions, in truth, were notlunsighiere: scarnissimo an intro, menu, all too predictable as theoptions contained in it, much less a graphic contemporary visualstandards. With the Action menu instantea you can immediately begin achess game after choosing the board and the location of the epicbattle. The board intends to be populated by "pieces" thatare actually characters with gestures and attitudes typical of theirrank, as well as acts of war that happens when you have to interpret"eat" the opponent's piece.

So far, nothingunexpected or substantially different from the game of chess as weall know. In Battle mode, however, are introduced in clashes betweenthe characters with a bayonet duels in which we could also overturnthe outcome of the move, winning the duel. This mode allows directcontrol of the piece, as in the best fighting games, but with thepressure of keystrokes we can make moves to defend or attack.



Thegame features a story mode that tells, through game situations on theboard (eg King and Alfieri white against black pawns and king), theeternal struggle between good and chaos. Winning the games offered invarious modes allow you to move forward in the story dealing with newsituations that determine the course of history.Additional game modesare a collection of mini-games that are nothing more than gamesituations on the board to be solved within a certain number ofmoves.Training chess diagrams are used to simulate certain conditionsthat may occur during a complete game.