This is My Dune
Publisher Funcom and developer Shiro Games have offered up thefirst gameplay videofor their incoming strategy titleDune: Spice Wars, an adaptation of the legendary sci-fi universe devised by author Frank Herbert. The game is currently in development forPC and consoles.
As we reported in December, whenDune: Spice Warswas first announced, the new title will return the real-time-strategy roots ofWestwood’s classic Amiga and PC releases of the early 1990s. Players will be afforded the opportunity to select from a number of houses set within theDuneuniverse, before attempting to build a thriving mining community within the planet’s lucrative spice-mine market.
The new trailer, which appears to be narrated by the dulcet tone of a Lady Jessica-type, demonstrates how players will be responsible for the building and maintaining of communities, factories, silos, and machinery, carving out a piece of the all-important spice pie while steadying the scales of democracy, subterfuge, and war with rival houses, local communities, and cut-throat bandits.
Bargaining, espionage, resourcefulness, peacekeeping, and brute force will be the tools necessary to ensure that your time on Arrakis is a successful one, lest you and your people find yourselves face down in the sand. These are very early days, but if Shiro Games is able to capture even half the atmosphere and compelling gameplay of the Westwood titles, thenDune: Spice Worldcould prove to be a real gem.
