How Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate — Daemonhunters rebuilds the tactics genre around the Space Marines
pcgamer.comIt's no secret that, as with RPGs, modern strategy games trace their roots back to the tabletop. And if there's one wargame that can truly be called genre-defining, it'd have to be Warhammer 40,000. That's why it's almost poetic that Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is seeing so many comparisons to XCOM.
In a way, it's like we've come full-circle.
Set in the grim darkness of the far future, Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters puts you in command of a squad of Grey Knights, one of the most memorable Space Marine chapters.
Most Space Marines are super soldiers created from genetically-engineered demigods known as Primarchs. These Primarchs, in turn, were created from the DNA of the God Emperor of Man — the most powerful human being to have ever existed, now little more than a living corpse. The Grey Knights break the mold in a few ways:
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters releases on May 5, 2022, on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Preorders start at £34.99/$44.99/€44.99
The Warp is an alternate dimension composed entirely of psychic energy, and home to the terrifyingly powerful Chaos Gods. These malevolent extradimensional entities are a perpetual corruptive influence upon sentient life, and are responsible for the creation of daemons.
The Inquisition, meanwhile, is functionally an intergalactic intelligence agency. Its personnel, known as Inquisitors, are equal parts secret agent and secret police. They spend their lives hunting down anything they deem a threat to the Imperium of Man — through what constitutes a 'threat' can range from a daemonic incursion to a colonist with the wrong opinion.
Yeah, Inquisitors aren't exactly nice people. Unfortunately, they're also one of the highest authorities
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