Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

This game takes heavy inspiration from the original X-COM, but that's not a bad thing. It doesn't use the globe view of X-COM, and doesn't have base building, but it does focus more squarely on the tactical combat and giving you specific mission maps to clear out. Your squad gains levels, have different stats, have different classes (which is a nice new addition), and can be equipped with gear in different ways. The game ramps up with each mission, bringing in new challenges but also new options for you to play with and figure out. One thing that this game definitely brings over from X-COM however is when your guy is dead, he's DEAD. There's no coming back. If you go around a bad corner or charge in against an enemy you shouldn't have, the game has no problem taking you out. Smartly moving your units across the battlefield is critical. While the UI does take a little getting used to, once you get the hang of it you can move around your units pretty quickly. The graphics are fairly charming, not beautiful, but it is 3D rendered models captured as pixelated images to put together the animations that I personally enjoy a lot. A little blurrier than Diablo 2/Baldur's Gate, but it works. It's a solid game and while you don't have to like 40k to get enjoyment out of it, it's definitely a lot more fun if you are. Who doesn't want to romp around in classic 40k lore, ugly weapons and all? Good stuff.

First of all, after so many years, this game (or at least this version) works on Windows 10, and doesn't crash, managed to finish the first mission. This is a great turn based tactical game, which intruduced me to the warhammer 40k universe. The music and sound effects are great and the graphics are fine too (it wasn't the best, even in 1998 when it was released). The combat is similar to the classics at that time, like fallout 1-2, jagged alliance and ufo/xcom series. The missions are (so far) linear, you complete one after another. I'd highly recommend it to WH40k and turn-based tactics fans

love this game played it when it first came out. Now it actualy works on windows 10 and its fkc awesome. to get it to work you have to make a new folder on your c drive and name it CGOG Games WH40k Chaos Gate then install it to that folder...boom!! someone needs to make an updated verson of this game with the other races and not make it lame like most the new warhammer games and no micro transactions biiiiiich!!!

Do Not Buy if you were hoping to run this in Windows 10. It ran fine for me in Win 8.1 but no longer. Compatibility mode does not work. GOG will not honour their refund policy because it doesn't say Win 10 in the required specs for the game on the store page. That said, great game. Warhammer X-Com, really, with a great soundtrack and some cool immersion. Nostalgia ftw, but ...yeah, won't run in Win 10.

The Windows 10 issues that others have reported do appear to be solvable with a few fixes as described in this YouTube video (https://youtu.be/dbgp5kHheu8). Having now installed and played the game I have found that my experience appears to have been much better than most have reported. I am not sure if this is because of recent updates to Windows 10 or the fact that I'm using an AMD video card. I'll describe what I found, the fix I applied, and also my PC specs in case this helps others: [b]INSTALLATION[/b] The game installed, using the default installation directory, without issue. Note that GOG recommend that the installation path only have 2 subfolders and 35 characters total to avoid the game crashing when starting a mission ([url=]https://www.gog.com/support/warhammer_40000_chaos_gate/the_game_is_crashing_when_starting_a_mission[/url]). [b]THREE BLACK & WHITE MINI SCREENS[/b] On starting the game the various developer/publisher logo movies played perfectly. I did NOT experience the three black and white mini screens issue. The game intro movie then played, again without issue, ending with the main menu. [b]STUTTERING ISSUE[/b] I DID experience the cursor stuttering issue and so applied the fix described in the YouTube video (and also here [url=]https://www.gog.com/forum/warhammer_40000_chaos_gate/windows_10_stuttering_fix_for_renamed_executable[/url]). Note that I did NOT rename the game executable, I left it as WH40K.exe. This solved the stuttering for me. [b]MUSIC VOLUME ISSUE[/b] I'm not sure what others experienced, but I found no issue with the in-game music and the ability to adjust its volume via the options screen. So, I did NOT apply the music volume fix. [b]UNIT ANIMATION ISSUE[/b] Similarly to the music volume issue, I found no issue with unit animation, its speed or the ability to adjust the speed via the options screen. As such, I did NOT apply the unit animation fix. [b]MY PC SPECS[/b] OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (v1511 - fully updated as of 30 July 2016) Processor: Intel i7-875K overclocked to 3.85GHz Memory: 8GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 390 (Asus STRIX-R9390-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING) Graphics Driver: AMD Radeon Crimson v16.3.2 with GPU Scaling turned ON Monitor: Dell U3415W Screen Resolution: 3440 x 1440 [b]SUMMARY[/b] So in summary, the only fix I implemented was a simple registry change to fix the cursor stuttering issue. This could easily be fixed by GOG incorporating this registry change into the installation executable. The fact that this hasn't already been done is disappointing to say the least. BTW - love the game and highly recommend it. With the stuttering fix in place the game is easily a 5 star game for me.