GREAT game. The first excellent RTS, paved the way for a genre. If you never played this, you missed out. The game was actually much deeper and well done than this trailer lets on.

You can get a freeware, modded version of the game here (but I can't vouch for it):
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=1090

I can't believe how little really has changed between this game and the rather fantastic C&C3. Good gameplay never dies, I guess.

The first RTS game I ever had on my PC (286). Westwood Studios rocked (dang EA). The ending levels were hard! Someone should post the three endings.

Someone should post the three endings too.

This was really a gem.

The only missing feature of the game was the selection of multiple units, but it was loads of fun nevertheless.

I really wanna put this in vintage.
*Quality!
*animation *videogames

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>> ^gwiz665:

I really wanna put this in vintage.
Quality!
animation videogames


Dune 2 lovers, check out http://drackbolt.blogspot.com/ ... I haven't tried it, but it looks radical/rad.

this is definitely a classic. I loved this game. And this is one of the best cinematics ever done IMO. Westwood had in general really good cinematics.

>> ^EMPIRE:

this is definitely a classic. I loved this game. And this is one of the best cinematics ever done IMO. Westwood had in general really good cinematics.


Speaking of EMPIRE, did you play that version?

Yes I did actually

I liked Emperor. But nothing replaces the original. If nothing else, for that feeling of nostalgia you can never recreate.

>> ^EMPIRE:

Yes I did actually
I liked Emperor. But nothing replaces the original. If nothing else, for that feeling of nostalgia you can never recreate.


Ditto. I finished it too. Dune 2000 was OK too. I laugh at Dune 2 now because it is SO old. I love Command & Conquer (excluding Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 3, and C&C4) too. I miss Westwood Studios!

I really miss them too. I loved the Kyrandia games. I was REALLY into adventure games back then, and very recently I bought back a Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge copy I had sold

>> ^EMPIRE:

I really miss them too. I loved the Kyrandia games. I was REALLY into adventure games back then, and very recently I bought back a Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge copy I had sold


Ah, I couldn't get into those adventure games, text games, etc.

>> ^Wingoguy:

GREAT game. The first excellent RTS, paved the way for a genre. If you never played this, you missed out. The game was actually much deeper and well done than this trailer lets on.
You can get a freeware, modded version of the game here (but I can't vouch for it):
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=1090


BTW, your link is broken.

This was a really good game. Does the intro narrator have to speak so slowly though? It sounds like she has a nailgun nail in her frontal lobe.

@calvados I was surprised at the lack of quality in the speak. I mean, she speak the lines well and all, but just production values. At one point she even blows into the mic and it's really, really clear "woosh". I mean, couldn't they have done another take? Were they in a hurry to go the the strip club or wtf?

@ant @EMPIRE I loved dune 2000. I remember recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pBRHKv_Pqk from one computer to the other with a mini-jack to mini-jack from one sound card to another. Good times.

Emperor was a more bold game, which tried to do a lot of things. It was one of the first 3D RTS games, which pretty much killed it for me, not because it was ugly, but because it freaking killed my PC at the time. The story was much more true to the book in that one too, with different houses and factions.

Dune 2000 was a straight re-make of Dune 2, but with the lessons they'd learned from C&C and Red Alert, ie. it was great.
>> ^calvados:

This was a really good game. Does the intro narrator have to speak so slowly though? It sounds like she has a nailgun nail in her frontal lobe.

>> ^gwiz665:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/calvados" title="member since November 16th, 2006" class="profilelink">calvados I was surprised at the lack of quality in the speak. I mean, she speak the lines well and all, but just production values. At one point she even blows into the mic and it's really, really clear "woosh". I mean, couldn't they have done another take? Were they in a hurry to go the the strip club or wtf?
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">ant @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/EMPIRE" title="member since October 21st, 2006" class="profilelink">EMPIRE I loved dune 2000. I remember recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pBRHKv_Pqk from one computer to the other with a mini-jack to mini-jack from one sound card to another. Good times.
Emperor was a more bold game, which tried to do a lot of things. It was one of the first 3D RTS games, which pretty much killed it for me, not because it was ugly, but because it freaking killed my PC at the time. The story was much more true to the book in that one too, with different houses and factions.
Dune 2000 was a straight re-make of Dune 2, but with the lessons they'd learned from C&C and Red Alert, ie. it was great.
>> ^calvados:
This was a really good game. Does the intro narrator have to speak so slowly though? It sounds like she has a nailgun nail in her frontal lobe.



I didn't like Dune 2000 that much. It wasn't bad.

So old Dune2ers, did you try http://drackbolt.blogspot.com/ yet?

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Man.... those were my peak PC gaming days. I was into RPG, RTS, TBS and simulations (racing & flight) mostly for the long hours, SFII and FPS for the short plays.

Loved Dune II. It's one of a handful few RTS that I would replay more than once throughout the years. I like it over C&C/Warcraft, the storylines more mature. But Starcraft was the best for an RTS. But THE strategy game that I go back to most often is X-COM.

I tried to replay Dune 2 like a decade ago. Ugh, one unit at a time and soooooooooooooo limited. Haha.