![]() ![]() Westwood’s new 3D engine really deserves all the accolades: it’s beating the likes of Dark Reign 2, Operation Moon, or Z: Steel Soldier – the most beautiful real-time strategy game so far is Emperor’s rendering. “Usul, we have a wormhole that even God has not seen!”īut before we get into that, let’s first look at the changes to the graphics. However, the test of the most appetising pudding is in the eating: let’s see if Westwood has managed to create something in terms of gameplay that should ‘wake up’ gamers tired of traditional RTSs. While the fundamentals of real-time strategy haven’t changed much since the genre-setting Dune 2, the company is debuting its brand new, rotatable, zoomable 3D engine in this game, which boasts effects worthy of the still spectacular 1984 film. With the just-released Emperor: Battle for Dune, Westwood is keen to prove that they are still the most worthy to adapt the most popular work of science fiction literature. Also in the pipeline are Cryo-like, online-only Dune Generations and the action-adventure Dune. Frank Herbert’s original novel and the David Lynch film based on it have served as the basis for Cryo’s strategy once and Westwood’s four times. After Star Wars and Star Trek, Dune is slowly growing into one of the most popular universes in computer gaming.
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