The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. Probably should have had the extremely important but vulnerable young John Connor as the king, really.It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! That’s right, you’ve got Arnie but he’s reduced to being the most useless, least dangerous piece on the board while Sarah Connor does all the hard work as the queen. This does lead to a couple of amusing oddities within T2JDCW, though: the king and queen of the Terminator side are just endoskeletons wearing crowns, which is absolutely adorable, but the king of the resistance side is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s good-guy Terminator. At least you can’t go too far wrong with chess, because it’s just chess with Skynet robots and human resistance fighters replacing the usual pieces. That strangeness aside, it’s always nice to see the iconic skinless Terminator, even if their videogames are almost uniformly rubbish.
Unless the Teletubbies are Skynet’s first step towards world domination, I think it’s a mystery that will go unanswered. “Terminator is back in a deadly game of chess,” huh? That’s all well and good but it doesn’t explain why those Terminator endoskeletons have Teletubbies-style stomach monitors now. And hey, let’s be glad that slinky dresses with plunging ermine necklines aren’t the official regalia of all queens, because Elizabeth II just had her 91st birthday.Īnd here’s Terminator 2 Chess’ very own cover. The queen is great, but the highlight of this art for me is the bishop in the background, cheering the queen’s murderous rampage in a most irreligious manner. A good representation of chess itself, then, plus it captures the game’s unique selling point too. A queen marauds across the board, zapping knights and pawns left and right while the king stands in the background and looks disinterested. But I’m here to talk about cover art, not gameplay, and Battle Chess’s artworks is kinda great. After that, you’ll have seen all the potential animations and the ponderous speed of the pieces’ movement drags the hardly lightning-paced game of chess down to a crawl.
It sounds like fun, and it is… for the first three or four matches. Rooks turn into stone golems and smash their opponents, pawns kick knights in the testicles, that kind of thing. One of the more famous games on this list is Interplay’s Battle Chess, which is known for the often comical animations that play each time one piece takes another.
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