![]() I find it impressive, in retrospect, how Westwood Studios was able to take this premise and use it to come up with an entirely new kind of video game concept. It skillfully takes the politics of the competing houses, the Atreides and the Harkonnen, and does a pretty efficient job of explaining their conflict in just a handful of introductory images. I can certainly appreciate how much of Dune II faithfully adapts the world of the novels. Yet I actually can’t say it made that much of a difference to my enjoyment. In this new context, I initially returned to Dune II not to reappraise it RTS mechanics, but to see if the story and world of Frank Herbert’s books would now make more sense than they did as an uninformed teenager. The characters, the politics, the geography… All instantly captured my imagination and, me being me, I feel a need to feed that imagination by going back to the movies, the tv shows, the books and, yes, the games… I’ve also never read the Dune books, and all these years later, my only real experience of this highly influential sci-fi world is a licensed game on a long forgotten computer.īut then, a couple of weeks ago, I went to see the new movie adaptation of Dune and I was absolutely blown away, not just by the cinematic vision of Denis Villeneuve, but also by how engaging and imaginative its world was. Then the action would shift to endless talking and techno-babble and I’d switch the channel to watch The A-Team or something. I remember channel surfing in the nineties, catching a scene of Kyle McLachlan and Patrick Stewart trying to stab each other through their holographic armour. Until this week, I’d only seen clips of the David Lynch film. I haven’t played it for probably 25 years now, but with the release of the new Dune movie, I thought it was time to go back and reappraise Dune II.Īs well as not being much of an RTS fan, I’m also not much of a Dune fan. Dune II was among them and, having already played Command & Conquer, I was eager to sample its seminal predecessor. It came with hundreds of games, many of them copies, as well as a large stack of original boxed games. ![]() In terms of plotline, I'll leave that up to John Carmack.I was a huge Amiga fan in the mid-nineties, after buying a second hand A1200 from the Free Ads. So I would definitely not say it "differs completely". But Dune II doesn't have much of a plotline at all, besides that outline, so they refined it a lot in Dune 2000, and for the better, too. The rough outline is still exactly the same, as far as I can see. And, as Atreides, you build up an alliance with the Fremen throughout the course of the game. ![]() But he doesn't actually want any particular house to win said contest, so as your house starts gaining the upper hand, he conspires with the other two houses against you. As far as I know, the plotline of both games is identical the Emperor, having acquired a large debt (somewhat implied in the manual of D2K, explained in detail in the Dune II one), needs to increase spice production, and makes a contest between three Houses over who can produce the most spice. ![]() "Although Dune 2000 was originally intended to be a remake of Dune II, the plotline differs completely" That's strange. Originally posted by ZERO:Dune 2000 was not a remaster.
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