War Chess – Windows Readme – English

Welcome to world of WarChess!
Copyright (c) 2003, XS games LTD
Copyright (c) 2003, Superempire Interactive

Overview
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This game is the world of chess in full 3d 
to which imagination of artist bring chess pieces, 
by giving them the bodies. This world full of dangerous, 
where two fantasy hosts battle for triumph and glory. 
This game takes place in world, where, besides people, 
since olden days, exists races of dwarfs, elves and 
other creatures, in world where magic exists along with 
weapon. You must lead your army in way to victory and to 
defeat opponent in game of chess. Your way will lead 
through many locations, such as distant desert, 
ruins of old temple, and many other mystery places.
 

Features 
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- 11 different arenas
- Chessboard and characters in full 3d 
- Over 2000 polygons per character
- Splendid graphics and detailed animation
- Many graphics effects
- Manual camera or automatic camera showing most excited moments in game
- Situation on the game field is doubling in pop-up 2d chessboard
- Easy to use interfaces
- Possible moves highlighting
- 10 difficulty levels 
- Network game through DirectPlay 


How to play
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You start in main menu. After selecting New Game you 
will be prompted for arena where battle will happens 
and difficulty level. 

After game is started you may control camera by dragging 
mouse anywhere in 3d view using left mouse button. 
You can zoom in and zoom out view by using mouse wheel or 
by using following keys '+' and '-'  or  PgUp and PgDown.
By default you will see pop-up 2d window, which shows
current situation on board. You can move pieces by 
dragging them in this 2d view or just by clicking on 
figure (this works both in 2d or 3d view) by left mouse 
button and click right button on target board cell 
(this works both in 2d or 3d view). 

Also you can drag & move any window in game by using 
pressing and holding left mouse button on window top area.

By pressing ESC button you will see game options menu.

Note, that sound and music volume does not working 
in this version. Also saving and loading games in 
version is not implemented.


How to configure
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When game is started you will be prompted for selecting
video mode, in advanced tab you are able to control
advanced things such as Dynamic Vertex Buffer [this affects
some video cards]

Troubleshooting
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If you have some graphical problems please make sure that you have 
DirectX 8.1 correctly installed and have latest drivers for your 
video card from your vendor. We tested game on NVidia and ATI 
video cards and found that installing latest drivers fixing 
most problems. 


How to contact us
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[email protected]

Thank you!

 

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