![]() ![]() Its obvious that Dune 2000 is at best a stopgap before Tiberian Sun appears at worst its an excuse to print money. ![]() Where the first game was ground-breaking, this is just another clone, albeit from the originators. The novelty of building a new base every mission has long worn away, and the flat, beige terrain soon makes you reach out for something altogether greener. In its favour, the missions played quite well, but there is absolutely nothing new here that isnt in 1001 other real-time strategy games. However, playing through the same missions with the same units does little to bring back the fervour with which the original was played in fact the experience rather soiled the memory. The resource was the spice melange, the setting was the desert planet Arrakis, and you had a choice of three sides to choose from: the Atreides were the good guys, the Harkonnen the bad, and the Ordos were mysterious, underhand and downright ugly.Īctually they were all pretty ugly, what with everyone sporting a pair of eyebrows even Dennis Healy would be ashamed to display.).Īll Westwood have done is meddle with the missions to make them more balanced, film some FMV and slapped it all into an updated Red Alert box.Ĭonsequently we have multiplayer options, hi-res graphics and the ability to group units, rather than having to direct them one at a time as you had to do in the original.Įven with these enhancements -and certainly next to TA - Dune 2000 looks a year out of date.Īgainst TA or Dark Reign, the limited number of units available make this game easy to get into. When they start calling them remakes, you know theres something fishy going on. The truth is, though, what games publishers call sequels, we call remakes. While remakes of films tend to be bigbudget money-rakers with nothing but special effects to sell them, its the new and improved effects that make games remakes better. Anyway, the thought of a sequel to Dune 2 sent saliva glands into overdrive - until we read later on that Dune 2000 wasnt really a sequel, but rather a Cremake of the original classic. ![]()
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