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Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, later retitled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis for the European release and the Mega Drive/Genesis port, was released in December 1992 from Westwood Studios/Virgin Interactive. [9] [10] Often considered to be the first "mainstream modern real-time strategy game", Dune II established many conventions of the genre. [9]
[198] [199] Dune II is considered to be among the most influential video games of all time. [200] Dune 2000 (1998) is a remake of Dune II from Intelligent Games. [201] Its sequel was the 3D video game Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001) by Intelligent Games/Westwood Studios/Electronic Arts.
Dune was commercially successful, with sales of 20,000 units in its first week alone. By 1997, it had sold 300,000 units. [13] Cryo Interactive's Philippe Ulrich later noted that the company had "bet a lot on the explosion of the PC and the CD-ROM" with Dune, and that the game's hit status was heavily responsible for Cryo's quick growth. [14]
But the best adaptation of the novel may actually have been a groundbreaking 1992 PC game, writes Ed Power Sand and deliver: How a revolutionary video game rescued Frank Herbert’s Dune from ...
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (titled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and Dune: The Battle for Arrakis in North America for the Mega Drive/Genesis port, respectively) is a 1992 real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games.
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Arrakis (/ ə ˈ r ɑː k ɪ s /) [1] —informally known as Dune and later called Rakis—is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert.Herbert's first novel in the series, 1965's Dune, is considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, [2] and it is sometimes cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.
Dune 2000 is a real-time strategy video game, developed by Intelligent Games and published by Westwood Studios in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. It was later ported to the PlayStation in 1999. [ 4 ] It is a partial remake of Dune II , which is loosely based on Frank Herbert 's Dune universe . [ 5 ]