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Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars

A chess game based on T2, featuring sounds and characters from the movie as pieces. Captures are animated a la Battle Chess, but the battles take place off the board, in futuristic wastelands and similar stages

1 September 1993

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars is a sport developed by IntraCorp, released 1 September 1993 on DOS.

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What Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars is

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars is a sport game developed by IntraCorp and released in 1993. It was published by Capstone Software. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A chess game based on T2, featuring sounds and characters from the movie as pieces. Captures are animated a la Battle Chess, but the battles take place off the board, in futuristic wastelands and similar stages
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Terminator series

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars is the 18th of 50 entries we hold in the Terminator series. The next entry was RoboCop Versus the Terminator in 1993.

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What it launched against

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars launched on 1 September 1993, within three weeks of Master of Orion, Gunstar Heroes and Fatal Fury Special.

Released around the same time: Master of Orion, Gunstar Heroes, Fatal Fury Special.

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When did Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars come out?
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars was released on 1 September 1993 for DOS.

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