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Improvements to be made...
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User
- The ability to play your own xbox hard drive music over the games
- Improved graphics, in a stop-motion animated sequence of photos of real pieces moving over a top-view board
- Less words cluttering the playing screen
- Live-action pre and post-game cinematics and animated attack moves by genuine animators. Let's say a short opening scene depicting Chess pieces moving into Italy from the Italian Alps!
- A sense of the global cultures and the exotic playing areas
- A focus on 'star players' like Kasparov and even Deep Blue as characters! Not so many average people.
- Different voices to proclaim 'Check', 'Checkmate' or whatever in various instances.
- Sound effects, like a horse braying when it takes an opposing piece, a proud King saying 'You'll never take me alive' or an icey Queen - the voice accent of these pieces would change by selecting which country your side is from. For instance, if you chose France, the pieces would have a French accent. Like the 'Worms' games.
- Stylized culture-based gamepieces for major countries, Russia, Germany, France, America, Africa, Britain, Canada... etc.
- For God's sake, support for two players on separate controllers
All in all, this is a good game with inventive elements, detailing 500 years worth of games with narration, and it demonstrates in a very immediate way, how to improve your game. However, it could have animated and enlivened the game of Chess in a modern, but deeply cultural and historical way, and it hasn't done that. The best chess game out there, but hopefully not for long!
Great!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User
I have to say, this is an awesome chess game. What really caught my attention was the vast amount of tutorials. They are voice narrated and very detailed. You will learn a lot from playing this game, and enjoy it while doing so. Also, there are over 800 recorded games dating back to the 1600's that you can watch being played out with commentary! This game is a must have for any chess enthusiast or anyone looking to better their game.
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