Battle Chess 4000

Genre:

Puzzle

Year:

1992

Developer:

Interplay Productions

Publisher:

Interplay Productions

Perspective:

Isometric, Top-down

Theme:

Fantasy, Board / Party game, Chess

Releases:

DOS (1992)

The Battle Chess series took the basic game of chess and added animations for each battle between pieces, bringing the game to a wider audience, with no intention of providing something for Kasparov to spar with. This edition follows the same premise, but with a futuristic science-fiction feel. Pieces are animated from clay models, with a new range of animations. The game can be played in 2D mode as an alternative. The game's artificial intelligence learns your strategies and game plan as it plays with you, and there are over 300 000 distinct moves in the library of openings. The player is an anonymous chess grandmaster who has traveled through time to the year 4000 aboard a space station that orbits Earth and has a huge chessboard within. The standard chess pieces have been replaced by alien creatures. The game has a rewind feature where the player can rewind or fast forward to any played turn. Elo rating is graded by completing 24 chess puzzles.