Looks bloody good. The combat animations, multiple arenas, sets of pieces. Nice art direction.
There are multiple game modes, like classic chess, one mode that plays more like a fighting game (interactive), and a mixture of the two (first you make a move, and if there’s a conflict the pieces involved are transported into an arena and duel happens there. Remember Archon ?)
Aww, why does it look much better than Heroes V and Heroes VI ?
hehe nice, reminds me of Battle Chess
There was also a QUAKE mod that did something similar Quess was it?
Lol fluffy, used to play this chess game on amiga all the time :D, it was indeed, uber cool !
Oh yeah I remember that. The towers turned into monsters and the king was turned naked if slain by another piece.
Isn’t there also a Q3 chess mod?
I’ve found “Quess” and “Quake Battle Chess” via Google.
Aww don’t get me started about Amiga games, I’ll talk for hours - so many classics!
…but now it’s time for a random YouTube song about Cats
I rather this! (yeah yeah I posted this like 3 times on this site already…) just a big big fan! was my first steps into videogames ffs!
Ahhhh nice, that brings me back I counted 81 games that I’d played, stand out favourites for me excluding all the obvious Lucas Film/Arts games were Hunter, Moonstone, Supercars 2 & Indy Heat such great games even now!
For me the C64 was my first games machine but later graduated to the Amiga; I still refer to those times as the golden years of gaming.
Cats may climb trees, but dogs climb metal walls.
I haven’t really played games on 16 bit computers. We switched from Atari 65 XE straight to 486 SX/33 (no coprocessor, the best CPU Quake doesn’t run on) with 170 MB HDD, and 4 MB RAM (WWF Wrestlemania and Hexen required 8 MB, ugh). Yes, I know early PC’s were 16 bit. Anyway, our first PC games were Scorched Earth, Archon Ultra, and not long after Doom 2.
Still, I’ve seen Cannon Fodder, Street Fighter 2, Hired Guns and a few others on Amiga. And a number of these games had PC version as well.
Every now and then I look up solutions/videos to 8 bit games I couldn’t pass. Ultima 3, Eidolon… But most 8 bit games would just loop (and increase speed) when you completed them :-).
Ultima III… in the days when it was pretty common to have several or more games on a single floppy, Ultima III used 3 ! (including one for savegames). Probably the most sophisticated game on 8 bit computers.
Watching that video, I realised it’d be a neat idea to remind people that a WinXP/Vista/Win7-compatible version of Beneath a Steal Sky is free at GOG.com.
Yep t’was a very cool game, I remember reading somewhere that the voices were recorded by the Spitting Image guys. I’m also a massive fan of Revolution’s Broken Sword games.
[QUOTE=Fluffy_gIMp;375799]Ahhhh nice, that brings me back I counted 81 games that I’d played, stand out favourites for me excluding all the obvious Lucas Film/Arts games were Hunter, Moonstone, Supercars 2 & Indy Heat such great games even now!
For me the C64 was my first games machine but later graduated to the Amiga; I still refer to those times as the golden years of gaming.[/QUOTE]
boo! I always felt like the underdog with my speccy 48k and Atari ST 
I finished Beneath A Steel Sky with the help of SCUMMVM emulator. A nice game, although the music is ridiculously out of place.
Here is Archon Ultra video I was talking about. The game has many similarities to one of modes of Rooks Keep.
Light vs Dark.
The player is not very good, but he’s amusing, does good job presenting the units, and plays my favorite side (Dark).
I’m surprised how well the game looks today. I guess it’s because graphics are stylized. They didn’t age as much as you could expect from a 1994 DOS game. And music is as good as always.
You do know there’s a youtube embed function on here now, right? Far easier (for me anyway cos I’m at work and these PC’s are crap) to load the vid on the forum than have to go to the youtube link.
DarkangelUK:
I do know, I just don’t like it.
In my last workplace youtube was blocked, but so was internet in general for many years. Even once things got more liberal they remained very strict and you’d be …verbally abused if caught browsing a forum.
Does it make a difference in terms blocked/unblocked ? Why do people like embedded videos ? They make pages load slower, too.
I like one ancient forum: http://heroescommunity.com (Heroes of Might and Magic). It’s ancient tech-wise, but it also means it’s blazingly fast and clutter-free.
It doesn’t make it load as slow as having to load up 2 pages, and really, if all I want to see is the video, there is no need to go to the site when it’s possible to bring the video here.
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I used to love this game on the Amiga:
and this one…