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Dune 2: The Battle for Arrakis was released 31 years ago. An impressive milestone in the RTS genre
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Dune 2: The Battle for Arrakis was released 31 years ago. An impressive milestone in the RTS genre
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The legend, played it as a kid a lot, and a lot more, when i got sound blaster
The sonic tank was the best! Also the devastator.
Suddenly, i’m feeling so old….
Damn, I miss these. Would buy on GOG but apparently none are available.
Edit: Someone doesn’t like GOG
I played this so much in middleschool.
I love this game in middle school, but it was hard as hell. The spice ran out too soon and I was always running out of funds before finishing a map.
The hours I spent playing this. Memories.
An absolute trailblazer.
I remember loving this this when I was young….wait 31 years!
This seemed so shiny and new compared to the old skool greats. How time flies!
I first played the Genesis version.
That and Herzog Zwei got me into RTS games.
Thats nice and all but this game was EXTREMELY good on the Sega Genesis. Whatever year it was, Dune was way ahead of its time and a marvel for a console strategy game. (I actually had the good fortune to borrow it from a friend once upon a time)
The setup for each faction is done superbly with weaker units at the start and as the game progresses moving up to House specific stronger units eventually. Although I had never heard of the Dune story before, the campaign was interesting on its own and easy to follow.
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I think this title is an example of Westwood studios at their best. Even now I can still remember some stand out details about the gameplay like baiting the sand worm to kill the enemy harvester and how infantry can start to run away if their squad gets hit too much. And finally the game has nice sound design with well done effects and background tunes. Naturally Westwood studios would go on later to make Command and Conquer.
I spent 4th grade drawing bases during school for when I got home.
i remember i played this game for quite a while without realizing you could build without the concrete foundations and just have your building take damage
Thanks for posting! Fuck me I’m old…
Westwood ‘s Dune forever.
“…land of sand…
…home of the spice, Melange…”
I think it’s different games, Dune: The Battle for Arrakis was a complete overhaul of Dune 2: The Building of the Dynasty, which came a year earlier, iirc. The screenshot looks like Dune 2: The Building of a Dynasty.
I might be wrong though, it’s been a while.
That game was good but dune 2000 was my jam! Probably my most played game until I discovered Civilization series
“Milestone”?
Dune 2 deserves way more accolade than that.
It was the *original* for what we think of as the RTS genre—the first game with that type of semi-autonomous resource gathering, base building, unit handling, etc. That’s like calling Wolfenstein 3D a milestone in FPS because Battlezone was first.
Herzog Zwei and Modem Wars had far different gameplay. They were tactics/strategy games that were real time, but that’s different. It’s similar to how Action RPG really means Soulslike, ARPG means Diablolike, and neither means “an RPG with action.”
I played it a lot on my Amiga, but it wasn’t what I was expecting.
It was more than a milestone, it was pretty much the birth of the RTS genre.
Herzog Zwei kicked off the concept and this game revised it. Herzog Zwei is one of my all time favorite games I’d love to see a proper remake and not that AirMech mess that was released a few years ago.
I played that so damn much as a kid. My mom watched one of those “moral panic” news broadcasts in the 1990s and deleted it off the computer because she thought it was that terrible “Doom” game. Sigh…
Love this game, not only was it amazing for its time. It also introduced me to the Dune IP, fear is the mind killer 🙂
I remember playing it.
Is was so hard for me that I’ve never finished it despite numerous attempts.
Fuck I loved that game.
I love seeing gaming history like this here. Dune 2 doesn’t really hold up today but it’s fascinating to go back and see how things have changed since
I played alot dune 2000…