Dune: Spice Wars
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6About Dune: Spice Wars
This is your desert, your Dune. Lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis. Spice is the most valuable resource in the universe. The spice extends life, expands consciousness, and makes interstellar travel possible. Found only on Arrakis, it is sought by the most influential forces in the Imperium… Scan the landscape for wormsign or risk losing your troops and spice harvesters to colossal sandworms who will burst through the dunes to devour them whole. Crush your opponents in combat, best them through political intrigue, and undermine them with your network of illusive spies. Experience the unique Dune universe, one of the most influential sci-fi settings ever created. Lead your faction to victory with iconic characters, such as Duke Leto Atreides, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, Esmar Tuek, and Liet Kynes. Stay alert as opposing factions seek to gain the upper hand and the planet itself threatens with vast deserts, huge storms, and the dreaded sandworms. 4X in real time. Balance open warfare, subterfuge, political influence, and economic supremacy to prevail and gain control over the most important
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- StrategyCo-opMultiplayer
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Better than expected
I stayed away from this for awhile based on the mediocre reviews, but within the first 20 minutes it was pretty obvious what the problem was...and it has nothing to do with the game. It was really mis-marketed, because well, there's really no way to market this game. They're selling it as an RTS, and people are expecting SC2 on Arrakis, but it is most definitely not that. It's best described as a very complex pausable real-time board game...and it was marketed wrong because it's difficult to market things that haven't existed before. "The mechanics suck" ...no, the mechanics are not what you expected, because you didn't bother to play the tutorials or read any guides. "The pacing is too slow and I can only speed up time 2x" ...yeah, unless you've got like 20+ hours under your belt, and understand every mechanic and every subtle minutiae of every individual territory on the map, you should be in pause mode most of the time. If you're thinking about build lists and clicks per minute, you are miles off from ever winning a match. This is a watershed game, and one of the very few truly fresh ideas I have seen in video gaming in decades. Don't sleep on this one, just understand it is NOT Starcraft on Arrakis.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.5
- Story3.5
- Value4.0
Exactly what I hoped for
TL,DR: Real good RTS game with focus on FFA mode. Dune Spice Wars is a slow paced RTS. Unlike classic RTS your main goal is not to annihilate the enemy. With focus on a "real" FFA game mode ("Free for all": no allied victory) you achieve victory by being opportunistic. Of course, you can still wipe the enemy base from the map. But you can also just eliminate the enemy leader, win by owning most spice shares, win by being elected the leader or by gathering the most hegemony points. In this regard, Dune feels far more like a real time Civilization than a Command & Conquer or Starcraft. Combat is very simplified. You rather have to prepare your assault correctly instead of pulling off some 300 apm micro skill set. Team games are possible, but I would say, they are not the core of the game. I see that the mixed reviews come from old school gamers, who expected more or less a sequel to the venerated Dune 2 from 1994. This game does not share anything but the setting with the Westwood games. Still, it is a great experience to play and it fills the RTS FFA niché like it intends to.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.5
- Story4.0
- Value3.5
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