And yes, the Deviator of the Ordos wreaked havoc with his great Toxic “WOLOLO”. Although this, far from being a fulfilled dream, prevented him from having the same quality as the rest of Westwood Studios’ works by being quite respectful of the limited units of the original, which continued to report few varieties between each house. That is why Intelligent Games (no, Westwood Studios was not behind) had it easy when it came to retaking the Dune saga more than five years later through Dune 2000, where the great classic of 1992 was remade and reinterpreted.Īs if Red Alert transformed into Dune, roughly. If I had to pick a game to be remastered, Emperor would be it.Yes Dune II: Battle for Arrakis was the pioneer, both the Command & Conquer saga and WarCraft were the ones who took the baton and perfected it, with a third party in contention (Age of Empires) who joined the party to be another reference. Relatively modern, has the big sandworm, sub-factions, lore, cheesy FMV, etc. Still, it was the best Dune-themed RTS imo. I’ve tried running it in a VirtualBox running XP, and still can’t manage to get it to work without errors. It will also likely not run on Win10 either, unless you try something hacky with wrappers like dgVoodoo. The license to use Dune IP didn’t transfer to EA, so no sequels or remakes or remastered versions of any sort are likely to surface.Įmperor was also well-known for technical problems, simply not running, performance issues, etc. The caveat with Emperor: Battle for Dune is that, I think the game was released during the transitional period when Westwood was being gobbled up by EA to become EA Los Angeles, and the latter studio was also shut down by EA, so the game wasn’t really maintained. I also don’t much care for old titles like Dune 2 or Dune 2000 either, having been too spoiled by the polished modern RTS experiences offered by the likes of StarCraft 2. I think? But again, not RTS.Įmperor: Battle for Dune probably fits the bill for the most modern iteration of an RTS set in Dune universe.
Considering that these people tend to be a bit sue-happy, I’m guessing mod community isn’t too eager to give it a crack.
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