

I’m drawn to play as house Atreides, not because they’re noble heroes who liberate the oppressed natives, but because I want to see John Rhys-Davies’ beard. The game begins with an introduction to the story by Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Elara-basically a bald witch with a detachable poisonous fingernail. The icing on the cake is it still includes all three sets of ludicrous full motion video sequences from each of the playable houses. It’s available to play in just moments, and at about four times its original resolution. Gruntmods has done a fantastic job of making it easy to set up. While Dune 2000 isn’t available through digital stores, you can download and play it for free courtesy of the legally murky Dune 2000: Gruntmods Edition. Back in 1998 Dune 2000 was little more than a revamp of Dune II, but to be able to easily revisit that universe today that’s exactly what I needed. How was it going to look on a 4K monitor? Would I be better off trying to play it on a calculator? Would I really get any satisfaction out of finishing a mission without a badly acted FMV sequence at the end? Could I even be arsed to try and get a 25-year-old game to work on a modern PC?ĭune 2000 was the solution. I’d forgotten how laborious the mechanics must have been-having to select each unit individually and manually select ‘move’ or ‘attack’. Sadly, after viewing a couple of YouTube videos I was instantly put off. I recently watched the movie again, which got me thinking I’d love to delve back into Dune’s strange universe and perhaps replay Dune II. Article taken from why is Dune 2000 worth playing today? Let’s find out. We don't mention the time Samsai rage-quit. We're big fans of it here, having run tournaments live on Twitch as we take each other and members of the community on and we can highly recommend it if you're a fan of strategy games.


This latest test release is a good one, here's some highlights: Thankfully, they were released for free by EA a few years ago so OpenRA simply downloads the free releases. To be clear on something, the OpenRA game engine is open source under the GPL, however, the actual games of course aren't. The latest test release is rather nice too. OpenRA is a fantastic game engine, which enables you to play Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux.
