Realistic Chinese Checkers app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Oscar Tsang
First release : 25 Aug 2011
App size: 19.74 Mb
Realistic Chinese Checkers with unbelievable real crystal balls.
There are 2 play modes: Capture and Free.
Capture mode:
You can play with Computer or up to 6 players. Computer player have very strong AI.
Detail: All sixty game pieces start out in the hexagonal field in the center of the game board. The center position is left unoccupied, so pieces form a symmetric hexagonal pattern. Color is irrelevant in this variant, so players take turns hopping any game piece over any other eligible game piece(s) on the board. The hopped-over pieces are captured (retired from the game, as in American checkers) and collected in the capturing players bin.
The game ends when no further jumps are possible. The player with the most captured pieces is the winner.
The board is tightly packed at the start of the game; as more pieces are captured, the board frees up, often allowing multiple captures to take place in a single move.
Free mode:
Just like a Chinese checkers board. No rule, no AI.
You can play anyway you like.
Latest reviews of Realistic Chinese Checkers app for iPhone and iPad
Bad
After few crashes, my phone got frozen, got to be reset.
I gave this five stars, because this has potential. The game, may be buggy, like the board is screwed up and shifted up, but I like the cello sounds when a piece on the board is selected. My advice is that the devs fix this game, because not everyone will give this game a five star rating like me.
This game needs a lot of work before it is worth the ticket price. There should not be ads displayed during the entire course of play. As well, you have to auth every move, which is very tedious if you have a move that involves multiple jumps. I would not want to use this for "pass and play" as people could easily cheat, even accidentally. I deleted and moved on.
Tried launching the app multiple times, with no success. Crashed everytime within seconds of initialization. Definitely needs some work/de-bugging...