12DOVE Verdict
Pros
- +
Chess itself is great
- +
Replay of saved games is nice
- +
AI difficulty has good curve
Cons
- -
Awful elevator music
- -
Ugly
- -
personality-free 2D graphics
- -
Poor controls
Why you can trust 12DOVE Our experts review games, movies and tech over countless hours, so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about our reviews policy.
Precious few details about Wii Chess were disclosed to the press prior to its release, but we could just imagine what those fun-wielding maniacs at Nintendo would come up with. The old playing pieces of yore abandoned in favour of Nintendo-themed chess sets, with cute little animations as a bishop-Link slices a Toad-pawn in half, for example. Even accounting for the fact that it comes from the more po-faced ‘Wii Something-Or-Other’ lineage, there’s still scope for charm, with customisable sets drawing from the Mii Channel, letting us move pieces round with the same head-tweezer technique seen in the Mii Plaza.
More info
| Genre | Strategy |
| Description | Despite being fundamentally solid, there aren't enough features here to make Wii Chess a viable buy. |
| Platform | "Wii" |
| US censor rating | "" |
| UK censor rating | "3+" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man review: "Freeing this creative series from MCU canon is the secret to its success"
PlayStation icon Shuhei Yoshida says a normal publisher would've canceled The Last Guardian, but even when it was running at 10-15 FPS on PS3 he insisted "we have to release it"
27 years later, Resident Evil 2 speedrunners get the "single most needed" quality of life mod, and the fastest world records are already being cut in half
