The perfect combination between a battle of intelligence and a battle of blows typical of fighting games.
If we talk about games, many years before the electricity that gives life to electronic entertainment even existed, humanity entertained itself with games like chess. This game which is believed to date from the s. III BC It is not only one of the oldest of humanity, but it has survived to this day and is still enormously popular, although the version we bring in today’s story is a little different. Chess is about eating pieces and finish off the opponent’s king, so why not transform chess into a street fighter style fighting game?
That’s exactly what the teams must have thought. ManaVoid Entertainment and Bad Rez Gameswho seek collective funding through Kickstarter to bring life to Checkmate Showsown“an online multiplayer competitive game that combines the strategic elegance of chess with the breakneck execution of fighting games”.
White move first, then I punch you
As we can see in this Checkmate Showdown gameplay trailerit is a traditional chess game, with its white pieces and its black pieces (orange and purple in this case), the classic moves of each chess piece and other special moves like castling. The difference is that, when eating a piece, instead of “winning” who has the turn, a fight begins between these two pieces in the purest style of a fighting game. We see that each piece has his own set of moves and some can even carry a weapon, like the king. This really is a “Mortal Kombat”, the piece that loses leaves the board
In addition, we see in the trailer that the game will feature rollback netcodethe latest technology in multiplayer fighting games for ultra-precisely record all movements of the players.
At the moment it does not have a specific release date and its release on PC is only confirmed, although that could change based on the success of the financing company or the arrival of other investors, publishers, etc. Let Street Fighter 6 tremble, they come to checkmate you.