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Remembering what IвЂ™ve learnt up until this point, I make sure IвЂ™ve got a good variety of vehicles to counter- act whatever the enemy AI might pull out of the bag. In a later mission I suffer a complete Sonic Tank fail whilst playing as house Atreides. In the spirit of the book, the Sonic Tank projects sound at enemy units devastating effect. Playing as house Atreides means I can build their unique unit now too-the Sonic Tank. It fires shells filled with mind-altering gas that temporarily changes any affected unitвЂ™s allegiance, much like YuriвЂ™s nonsense in Red Alert 2. House Ordos are the underhand sneaks, and their Deviator tank is based on illegal Ixian technology. ItвЂ™s like C&CвЂ™s Mammoth tank only bigger, and takes a battering before itвЂ™s finally destroyed. ThereвЂ™s a definite вЂholy shitвЂ™ moment the first time I see the brutal HarkonnenвЂ™s Devastator tank rumbling towards my base. Tanks alotД®ach house has one specialist unit that becomes available in the later missions and each unit either reflects its house or the original story. Enemy AI unforgivably fling wave upon wave of mixed unit attacks meaning that you need a good range of anti-infantry and anti-tank defence.

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YouвЂ™re often fighting against more than one house, plus mercenaries or Fremen. Playing through the game on вЂhardвЂ™ actually gets quite tough by the fourth or fifth mission. Much like Dune II and even Command & Conquer, around the fourth mission youвЂ™ll find your base strewn with your own badly damaged light vehicles-simply because itвЂ™s the last mission before youвЂ™re allowed to build a repair bay. TheyвЂ™re really just the same as your chaps but dressed in purple beekeeper outfits for added drama. Finally of course is the Emperor and his ruthless Sardukar warriors. The native Fremen warriors make a return too, living in caves amongst the rocky outcrops and ambushing enemies out of the blue.

Dune 2000 also introduces smugglers and mercenaries, some of which youвЂ™re allied with and who will abandon you mid-mission if they become overrun. Much like Dune II, thereвЂ™s a third house called Ordos, derived from the bookвЂ™s Spacing Guild, in addition to the Atreides and Harkonnen. Unlike anything in early Command & Conquer, the Starport works almost like a marketplace, where stock runs dry and where prices fluctuate.

Sadly thereвЂ™s no way to queue unit production as in Tiberian Sun, but once the tech tree lets you build a Starport you can receive dozens of units at a time, making this real tank-rush territory. You can select and move multiple groups of vehicles and assign numerical shortcuts to groups. In terms of mechanics, itвЂ™s pretty much identical to the original Command & Conquer.

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I notice early on that many of the vehicles such as harvesters and trikes take a form much more akin to the movie than in Dune II, and thatвЂ™s also true in the FMV sequences. My screen resolution for the first mission is so high that I find the corners of the map with a couple of infantry then realise the mission area is basically just a box in the middle of the screen. ItвЂ™s classic Command & Conquer movie territory, complete with a tiny set, about three extras and a terrible green screened desert backdrop.ДЄs the game begins the first thing I notice is that the unit animations arenвЂ™t quite as polished as C&C, and there are fewer frames when the units move. Playing the role of mentat to house Atreides, he delivers a brilliant piece of oratory during one of the early FMV sequences, proclaiming that вЂњHarkonnen would rather drink your blood than their own motherвЂ™s milkвЂќ.

IвЂ™m drawn to play as house Atreides, not because theyвЂ™re noble heroes who liberate the oppressed natives, but because I want to see John Rhys-DaviesвЂ™ 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.

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The icing on the cake is it still includes all three sets of ludicrous full motion video sequences from each of the playable houses.

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