Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

Wie die Zeit vergeht. Ein immer noch lohnenswerter Titel. Das Warhammer 40,000-Universum ist einfach klasse.

If you are into the Warhammer 40,000 universe this is a great addition to the grimdark setting with some features that are pretty advanced for its time in the 90s. Permanent death of your marines makes for an interesting strategic decision making as well as the optional missions along your path being an extra risk. You battle your way through the campaign commanding squads of Ultramarines; very familiar to any currently giving Space Marine 2 a try. With a variety of weapons and elite units gained along the way. The game has a good feel similar to the scale of the tabletop game. It's not without its flaws. It has some of the buggyness of other games from the 90s, and the ability to understand line of sight on the isometric 3D view leaves a little to be desired. From time to time the AI makes some questionable decisions and there's maybe not quite the variety of enemies and maps I would like. But none of this is too bad and is understandable for a game of it's era so overall this is a great blast from the past that feels just different enough from other strategy games like C&C or Age of Empires to be a great addition to your options if you're a fan of the genre. And I contine to be surprised by how many hours of play I am getting out of the campaign without even messing with custom battles etc.

No preformance problems but it does seem the enemy has an edge even in easy mode. So you new kids would say its a souls like game. I only played a demo of this back in the day and had no idea what warhammer was or how to play it. At the time the graphics were awesome. For its time, this has a lot of customization. While it can break the table top rules of mixing weapon types. The UI is clunky but its at least legable and it makes sense after a few turns of combat so you don't need to reach for a manual on how to play, maybe get some of the finer points. Enough clicking around and I was ok, but I'm also from that time. Idk if you youngsterrs will like it, as their is only one song for battle and it loops, but that midi track be slapping! The biggest irritant I have is when your guys are attacked at best they say 'im hit' or make a reaction, but you don't know untill they are dead or click on them. That's just something of the time tho. Also, I think it was designed to be played on harder difficulties where one shot will kill a guy. Yet playing tacticly enough, it gets mitigated. Suprising amounts of depth for its time. It takes me back to jagged alliance.

Exactly as the title, if you played the O.G Xcom game but wanted the same with Astartes and more of them on the ground to face the forces of Chaos,well here you go. The RNG doesn't seem as harsh as what plagued the Xcom games, sometime turning them into save scummers just to get by without losing those troops you've nurtured from the early days ( up until that point where psyonics made it all irrelevant ). Game works fully with Windows 10 out of the box, so that's a massive winner ! The Soundtrack is also legendary and you'll already know most of the tunes if you've watched any of the fan made stuff on You Tube - Especially BRUVA ALFABUSA and the excellent 'If the Emperor had Text to Speech' series, and if you haven't watched any of that, get this game then go away and watch TTS immediately. Yep, soild recommend, even I dare say at normal price, but it's 26 years old so no rush, wait for that glorious sales time. That's it 10/10 Have a good 1

This is the best 40k game ever