Not exact matches
His
opponent quickly swooped a knight down to capture the defending pawn, and just four
moves into the game, Sebastian was down a
piece.
«Well, let's see,» said Spiegel, and she took the white
pieces and started re-creating the game on the board between them, making each of Sebastian's
opponent's
moves while Sebastian, as black, replayed his own
moves.
Called the Mechanical Turk, it consisted of a wooden box with whirring gears and a mannequin dressed like a Turk, whose hand deftly
moved pieces across the board, beating most of its human
opponents.
The game is very similar to chess in that certain
pieces can
move certain places and you must verse your
opponent in a battle of wits and strategy.
The Thug guards the streets along which your characters will
move, blocking the way for opposition
pieces until they're beaten to death; the Gang acts as an enforcer, an offensive
piece really only made to give your
opponent grief (Alex was particularly fond of this one).
Each arena tends to have roughly the same interactions, like being able to use a
piece of the scenery to quickly
move around or a weapon that can be used to dish out damage, including my favorite example; throwing an old lady at the
opponent.
Super
moves are stunning action packed cinematic set
pieces including Batman calling in a beacon to collect the grounded
opponent that is winched into the clouds before Batman's aerial vehicle hits the
opponent, dislodges, then locks on to fire a dual machine gun and a missile followed by crashing back down to the arena, while Poison Ivy surrounds her opposing fighter with carnivorous plants that wrap themselves around her
opponents» body before eating then spitting the character out.
The objective is similar to the standard Checkers / Draughts i.e., to capture all
opponent \'s
pieces or to force the
opponent to have no more legal
moves.
In one set
piece move, series stalwart Sub Zero punches a hole in rival Scorpion's stomach, pulls out his lower intestines, freezes them into the shape of a spear and shoves them his
opponent's eye.
Basically 4 -
piece, 5 -
moves - per - turn networked chess with height differences, grenades and lasers, Clairvoyance uses its limited ruleset to establish a game in which thinking ahead is required, but not thinking ahead further than your
opponent could be disastrous.
CPU difficulties range from the ridiculously easy Monkey, where your
opponent literally throws away their
pieces by making ill - considered
moves, to Grand Master, the polar opposite where you are regularly outwitted.
Each
piece is
moved in plain sight, but a successful chess player is hiding her intentions from her
opponent.
In chess, the King may
move only one space in any direction (except when castling), while all other
pieces might
move more than one space (pawns in their first
move, and if they have achieved
opponent's home row by exchanging for any previously captured
piece of their color).
This kind of
moves are makes you lose the initiative if your
opponent has active
piece play.