Customer Reviews

Chessmaster Live [Online Game Code]

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Best chess available for xbox 360, but thats not saying much. It's a very basic version of the classic Chessmaster game. It's called Chessmaster Live because I think it is intended to be used primarily in multiplayer mode, since this is where most of the different game modes are playable. So I gave it only 3 stars because of glaring missing features and weaknesses:
1) Not a very big online presence. If you don't mind waiting you can usually get a game though, but probably not matching your skill level.
2) The controls are clunky. In blitz type games it takes too long to move pieces.
3) The alternate game modes (dark chess, 360, etc) not available offline.
4) No tournament mode of play, but without online players this would be useless anyway.
5) There is little statistical tracking: only wins,losses,draws, and elo is all.
6) There is no game analysis.