Combat Chess
Minds Eye Productions · 2021 · Chess, Retro, 3D, Strategy, Dark Fantasy
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 18 📉 Recent reviews down 64%
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About 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 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 "fidget" sequences for those moments you need to think. The animations include movement, combat, fidgets, and "check" moves. For the traditional minded, Combat Chess includes a traditional set, also 3D rendered. Two boards come with the game, each assigned to the genre of pieces.
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 "fidget" sequences for those moments you need to think. The animations include movement, combat, fidgets, and "check" moves. For the traditional minded, Combat Chess includes a traditional set, also 3D rendered. Two boards come with the game, each assigned to the genre of pieces.
- Comprehensive tutorials for novice players
- Fun, high-quality movement and combat animations
- An attractive way to get young people hooked on chess and teach them the basics
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Combat Chess is an ancient game from 1997. It's a whopping 26 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. In fact it's so dated it seems to expect to run in a Windows 3.11/Windows 95 windowed session. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge. The game itself is just a lazy, unabashed ripoff of Battle Chess (copyright Electronic Arts, 1988). We can hope that EA will sue these guys into the ground, but given the game itself is based on Chess and thus at least in part, public domain, and EA have had 26 years to enforce their copyright, it's sadly unlikely. Anyway this is a garbage derivative ripoff of Battle Chess only inferior in all respects despite being almost 10 years newer. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolutio…7 found this helpful
Good stuff: - Runs without the need to download any third-party mods or software. - Made before ESG ruined everything. - Chain-mail bikinis. Bad stuff: - Feels a little unresponsive. - Just sort of clunky & awkward in general I'd only recommend this if it's on sale for less than 99p, Simply due to how much of a clunky awkward mess it is.5 found this helpful
This is something that goes way back in my childhood while i was learning chess, even though i wasn't great at it. But its overall fun. Though there are bugs that were never fixed when it comes to using certain features. Great for beginners all the way to Masters if you don't mind the aged resolution. Warning: Do not check preload animations, otherwise the game will crash on future startups and must delete the chess.cfg in your combat chess folder to get it working again.4 found this helpful
I can't get this game to work. The cursor mirrors the left hand clock and then just drags the image of it behind itself with echoes. Then whenever the pieces animate they also generate an image of the clock on every frame of animation. What a bizarre bug.
Barely functions on modern PCs. I had to uninstall it and reinstall it just to adjust the resolution settings. The animations are super slow and make the chess matches take 3x the amount of time real chess takes. Super low resolution, annoying music, super difficult to adjust the options, and terrible pacing ruin the game. Do not touch.
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