Warhammer 40,000: Chess – Regicide announced

Chess and Warhammer collide later this year.

Hammerfall Publishing and Games Workshop have announced Warhammer 40,000: Chess – Regicide, a cross between the Warhammer IP and chess board game due out for “multiple gaming platforms” in 2014.

The game will feature both single and multiplayer modes with a Blood Angels story-rive campaign written by Games Workshop published author Ross Watson, along with levels created by Grandmater chess champion GM Zhao Zong-Yuan.

“The game has gone beyond the standard boundaries of chess to revolutionize the way the it is seen” said Cathrin Machin, the Project Lead at Hammerfall Publishing. “In creating the ground-breaking new Codex chess engine, the campaign mode represents a world-first in strategy gaming.”

Machin continued,“When this game was envisaged, it was like two worlds which belonged together had collided. The game honors the sheer brutality of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. It has hundreds of merciless kill and death animations that were created in a state-of-the-art motion capture studio utilizing military trained fight and stunt choreographers. [Regicide] combines this exciting feature along with environments, weapons, and upgradeable characters which have been meticulously crafted by some of the industry’s leading artists.”

Watch the debut trailer below. Visit the official website here.