 | In story mode provides even tactical map - to make it easier to track progress of your troops. |
Who today will surprise most ordinary chess? Game, all familiar - even if you've never dreamed of becoming a new Kramnik and hardly remember what the letter goes horse. Nevertheless, an experienced publisher can earn even chess - would desire. And here's an example: a well-known Konami decided to please the owners of a PSP game Online Chess Kingdom.
Realizing that no significant changes in the game to not work (chess - chess, and they have one), the developers decided to interest potential fans catchy and original performance. Forget for a time of boring black and white boards and featureless wooden figurines. Both in the Online Chess Kingdom well camouflaged, incidentally concocted awkward, but at first an amusing scene mode. According to the scenario in the world created by some Frenosom (Phrenos), five kingdoms are at war, professing quite different views of the world - from Chaos to Common Sense. Each of the kingdoms, of course, far-fetched to get rid of rivals. What, in fact, devoted to all the battles.
Battles are held strictly by the rules. Hod do you move - a rival, all the soldiers, figures moves exactly as it should. So do not expect to send the attack all the pawns at once - during the course allowed to move only one and no more than two squares forward. Another thing is that when two figures losing figure is not simply disappear from the board, but the picture is killed in a brief and usually very fierce battle. Chess fans and "sympathizers" like finding certainly entertain - although much of great value to them are several modes of difficulty and a multiplayer mode (including network). And if you manage to find another enthusiast, friendly party is likely to take many hours.
 | |  | When the camera falls too low, the graph no longer seems so attractive. | | "Figures will not miss an opportunity to show off - though the outcome of each contest a foregone conclusion. |
As to the people, indifferent to chess, they rely on a lot of Online Chess Kingdoms is not necessary - even the graphics are turned out to be extremely common. Yes, there are three-dimensional model figures, and quite funny decorated boards, arena, and not the bad animation. But not in the guise of Online Chess Kingdom nothing outstanding, nothing that would be the player's creative and helped the game stand out among dozens of other inexpensive craft projects for the PSP. Needless to say, that from the sound part of the cost the more ruthless, thinking that a real master musical excesses to anything?
Online Chess Kingdom verdict is completely predictable. Even on a small revolution developers are not enough. And that tried to pass off as fresh ideas, in fact, implemented without much effort, as both the story and "monstroobrazny" design pieces shoved into play only in order to have something to tell the press releases.If, however, reject this trumpery is a good chess simulator designed primarily to fans of the sport. Not so little, but were waiting for something, as usual, more.
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