One last thing - you may find yourself cursing because you don't know how to save, load or exit the game. I give it a mark of 4 only because it can get a bit tedious at certain points throughout the game. As for the graphics, they are beautiful and very well done. The game is basically a fine blend between adventure and strategy, and both aspects are very well balanced.
Your goal is to beat the opposing evil house Harkonnen that is also after the spice. After successfully convincing everyone to join you, you will have to strategically position the troops around the planet. Some will join you instantly, and for others you will have to prove yourself worthy. Firstly you will have to make friends with all of the tribes and get their troops at your disposal.
The planet's natives are called Fremen and are dispersed around the planet in small tribes. As you probably already know, Dune is famous for being the only source of "spice melange" which is the most-wanted substance in the universe because it enables interstellar travel. The game starts in your base castle, located on planet Dune. You play the character of Paul Atreides (made to look like Kyle MacLachlan, who played him in the motion picture). For those, Fremen tribes can be assigned to military training with Gurney Halleck, but before doing such work Paul must have a certain reputation, gained by the control of Arrakis.Īs the game advances, the player will untap Paul's latent powers, as well as meeting other characters from the Dune universe, such as Duke Leto, Jessica, Thufir Hawat, Duncan Idaho, Harah, Chani, Stilgar and Liet Kynes, the mastermind behind the ecological plans on Dune - the ultimate goal. Soon after the initial batches are sent to the Empreror, the player will have to actively deal with the Harkonnen, who will try to take control of player Sietches. However, the spice doesn't last forever and new sietches must be prospected before having a mining crew assigned, but the player cannot run Southwards forever, as the Harkonnen enemy controls the North of the Planet, dangerously close to the Atreides Palace. To speed up the process of harvesting, the player can equip the tribes with harvesters to increase production and ornis to protect them from the gigantic protectors of the planet: Shai-Hulud - the sandworms. Harvesting is the most important part of the game, required to purchase equipment from the smugglers and appease the emperor. The player arrives in Arrakis with the mission of contacting and convincing the Fremen tribes residing in sietches (desert settlements) near the Atreides palace to harvest the spice. While everything indicates the offer is a trap orchestrated by their enemies the Harkonnen, the Atreides family agrees on moving, as he who controls the spice, controls the universe.
The Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV has given the Atreides House the rights to manage the extraction of the most precious substance in the entire universe - the Melange, commonly known as Spice in the desolate desert planet Arrakis (Dune), the only place in the universe capable of producing the substance. Based on the legendary Frank Herbert novel of the same name and visually inspired by the 1984 David Lynch movie, Dune is a strategy-adventure hybrid where the player takes the role of young Paul Atreides, the son of Duke Leto.
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