What are the best video game renditions of classic games like Battleship, Chess, Checkers and other vidya like that? What vidya takes simple board games and spices them up with cool new graphics and additional rules to make the games more fun? Maybe even some kind of plot to make the player more interested in playing the game?
I know that Clue:Murder at Boddy Mansion adds some nice Noir-esque atmosphere to the game with it's soundtrack and stylistic. Any other examples of classic board or other types of traditional games being recreated as vidya with good effects?