Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate (1998) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

As a turn-based strategy with RPG elements, the game offers you the ability to fully customise your army between missions and augment your forces to ensure strategic superiority. With the might of a Space…

23 October 1998

What Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is a strategy game developed by Random Games and released in 1998. It was published by Games Workshop. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Chaos Gate tells the story of an Ultramarines army led by Captain Kruger, as he attempts to recover the Concordat Chaosium, a pre-Horus heresy artefact, from the hands of Chaos Lord Zymran's forces. With a mighty company under your command, you must engage in campaign scenarios and skirmishes, defeating the forces of Chaos and completing objectives to bring you closer to acquiring the artefact and defeating the heretics.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is the sixth of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. It arrived 11 months after Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000. The next entry was Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War in 1999.

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What it launched against

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate launched on 23 October 1998, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2 and Centipede.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2, Centipede.

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