John Rhys-Davies from the show Sliders and Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy offers a decent performance despite the CD-quality video. The characters speak directly to the camera to you as the military commander, and are a nice touch given the quality of the costumes. The stand-out feature of this game are the somewhat dated, but entertaining full motion video cut scenes. The colorful sprites and backgrounds allow for tons of enemies on screen. The mission tasks allow you to have different goals such as harvesting enough spice or the RTS staple mission 'destroy everything.' There are different difficulty levels that allow newcomers and veterans of the genre alike.

The gameplay lets you play as the three major factions of the first book. Westwood Studios created that game as well as the ever-popular Command and Conquer series.ĭune 2000 takes place in the ever-expansive Dune universe written by Frank Herbert and son Brian. This game is a reimagining of the seminal RTS Dune II. Dune 2000 is a real time strategy game developed by Intelligent Games and released by Westwood Studios in 1998.

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