Once you selected your race, you popped into a map and began to build resources and units, and take out those nasty enemy troops. House Atreides and House Harkonnen were familiar to readers of the novels, while House Ordos was a new race created by Westwood for the game. Dune II had you playing as one of three races battling for spice and power on the sand planet Arrakis. Virgin Interactive had picked up the Dune license, and was to release a set of games, the first of which was developed by Cryo, and the second developed by Westwood. Dune II was a complete package, and one that still holds up under the microscope, even under the gaze of our RTS-addled brains of this new century.ĭon't let the "II" in the title fool you - Dune II was completely unrelated (other than by license) to the original game. Although the game was played out in realtime, that was far from the only innovation that made the game so memorable. As hard as it is to believe now, there was truly nothing like it, and almost 10 years later, everything from Homeworld to Dark Reign still builds upon the foundations put down by Dune II.
#DUNE 2000 PC GAME REVIEW PC#
Wolfenstein 3D created first-person shooter fans where there had previously just been "action gamers," Alone in the Dark taught people that a controlled camera and a good storyline could make for some good "survival horror," and last but certainly not least, Dune II put a ticking clock into turn-based action and changed strategy gaming forever.ĭune II is arguably the first RTS game, but more importantly, it's the first RTS game to spark what is now considered a core genre of PC gaming. On top of fantastic hits like X-Wing and Star Control, you had not one, not two, but three genre breakers that went on to define gaming in the 90s, and into the new millennium. Now that we're officially out of the 90s, it's OK to start getting nostalgic, and there's no better place to start than 1992.
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