Star Wars Chess

Genre:

Puzzle

Year:

1993

Developer:

Software Toolworks, The

Publisher:

Software Toolworks, The

Perspective:

Isometric, Top-down

Theme:

Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Board / Party game, Chess

Releases:

DOS (1993), Windows 3.x (1993)

Also known as:

The Software Toolworks' Star Wars Chess

Star Wars is definitely one the most successful film saga in history, so no wonder it has inspired a number of computer games. The main genre of these games is mainly action, simulation and adventure, but in 1993 Software Toolworks created an unconventional Star Wars game: Star Wars Chess. As the name suggests, this is a chess where the figures are portrayed by a various characters from Star Wars. In total, there are 12 different characters available, that represent individual chess pieces. The rebels formed the white pieces: Luke and Leia, of course, as the King and Queen, C3PO is a bishop, Chewbaca Knight, Yoda is Rook and R2D2 portrays Pawn. Black pieces are characters of the Empire - Darth Vader is a Queen, Palpatine (Darth Sidious) portrays King, Boba Fett is a bishop, Tusken Raider is a Knight, chicken walker (AT-ST) as Rook and the Stormtroopers portray pawns. The game is very similar to the better known Battle Chess, fights are processed very similarly: the characters step away and look at effective combat with nice animation.