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The book dune is very popular
and ofcourse when someone made a movie out of it there was bound to be discussions
about wether or not it is true to the book. This game is based on the book
but visually uses many characters and objects from the movie. Some characters
are completely restyled and there are new characters as well, I have to
admit though I have never read the book so I can't say if they are entirely
new. The story is set in the future where the most valuable substance in
the universe is spice. Used by the navigators guild to fold space and therefore
invaluable to space travel in the entire galaxy. Spice is only found on
one planet in the entire galaxy called Dune or Arrakis, a desert planet
where there is never rain. The Harkonnen have long had the sole right to
mine the spice but now the emperor has allowed house Atreides to go to Dune
and mine spice as well. With these two houses who have had a long history
there is bound to be trouble sooner or later and that is where you come
in.
You play the role of Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and it is your job to convince the locals called Fremen to help you mine the spice. You can visit their homes called sietches by flying there in an ornithopter and most Fremen will be happy to help because the Harkonnen have treated them badly and many believe that Paul is the one from the prophecies that will free the Fremen people from the desert life.
These adventureing parts of the game are played from a first person view and you can easily navigate the places by using the directional controls at the bottom of the screen.
On your journey you will have the help from many old friends and teachers like Gurney Hallack and Duncan Idaho. The most important part at the start of the game will be to mine spice so you can ship enough to the emperor to keep him happy but later on it will become necessary to train the Fremen in combat so that they can help you defeat the Harkonnen. The part where you train troops and give commands to the Fremen is seen from an overhead map where all the sietches known to you are shown. Later on as Paul has more contact with the spice he will gain psychic powers and you will be able to contact the fremen from a distance which greatly decreased the time you need to fly around.
Dune is an excellent game that incorperates adventuring and strategic element
is a way that neither of them is a letdown. The strategic part is quite
involving and you will have to control spice production, train troops and
finally to try and take the Harkonnen palace on dune. The graphics are very
well done and the different music tracks that the game plays fit the game
well. Cryo were often accused of making games that looked very good but
offered little in gameplay. Altough I like many of their games this simply
can't be said of this game because of the vast strategic part in the game
and it will take you plenty of time to complete the game even if you have
played it before. Dune should be in every gamers collection and I consider
it a classic so I suggest you check it out if you haven't done so already..
Overal rating: 9/10
Erde Kaiser
Dune was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| Amiga |
Released
in 1992.
Game has been tested but not completed with winUAE v0.9.91.
The flying sequences have less detailed graphics but the game is just as enjoyable as the other versions. The game doesn't recognise more than two disk drives so you'll have to swap some but not a lot. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1992.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC.
This version plays without problems on faster systems and windows systems as well. There was also a cd-rom version released that had a movie intro and full speech for the entire game and somewhat more detailed graphics. The one available here is the disk version. |
| Sega
CD |
Released
in 1993.
Game has been tested but not completed with WGens v2.11.
This is about the same as the PC cd-rom version with speech, an intro and
nice rendered sanddunes but otherwise plays mostly the same. The speech
does add a lot of atmosphere to the game though so worth checking out. |
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Date added |
Jan-18-2005 19:42 |
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Dune |
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Developer |
Cryo
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Publisher |
Virgin
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First released |
1992 |
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Genre |
Adventure
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Download |
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 2306 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 1723 Kb
Sega CD, filesize: 205371 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual for Dune
, filesize: 10572 Kb
Zip contains the scanned manual from the Sega CD version. |
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
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