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Review : Spyglass Board Games for Xbox Live Arcade
Last week Spyglass board games came out for Xbox Live Arcade. This is a collection of four simple board games that you can play online via Xbox Live and with the Xbox Live Vision Camera. I don't know why they just call it Spyglass Chess for Xbox Live since that is the only game in the set that is actually worth playing. There is a decent game of Chess, Checkers, Reversi (Update: Oh it's Othello, I've played that) and Mancala. Now I find checkers to be about as boring as watching paint dry and I've never heard of Reversi and Mancala but I do deeply enjoy a good game of chess.
Since getting it last Wednesday, For 400 MS points or $5 I've never actually played against the computer player and besides one boring game of checkers I've played nothing but chess. Now there has been some good matches against some very good opponents all over the world. I've played chess against folks in Texas, New York, Pittsburgh, Italy, London and Japan. The background music is pretty sparse but you can play what ever you want via the custom soundtrack. All I need is one more win to get the 10 online wins in chess achievement. However there game has a problem with players that quit a game as soon as you pull ahead rather than officially surrendering a mach and there are some guys with cameras that are seriously disappointed when they find out that I am not some cute girl with a web camera.
This is a good alternative take on traditional games for Xbox Live arcade and it helps diversify the platforms with some more traditional games on Xbox live besides just Uno and poker.
Jake at August 6, 2007 
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