Westwood wasn’t the one Studio publishing Dune videogames again within the day. French studio Cryo Interactive developed an journey recreation merely referred to as Dune and launched it in 1992, then in 2001 launched a tie-in to the Sci Fi Channel miniseries referred to as Frank Herbert’s Dune developed by Widescreen Video games. The latter was a flop, and Cryo Interactive, already struggling because of the early 2000s recession, declared chapter.
That left Tender Brigade in hassle. The Hungarian studio was working with Cryo Interactive on an arcade flight-sim for the Sport Boy Advance referred to as Dune: Ornithopter Assault, by which you performed a Home Atreides pilot on Arrakis, defending spice harvesters from the Harkonnen. It was canceled—as was an internet RTS referred to as Dune Generations being developed internally by Cryo Networks—regardless of being nearly completed. A playable ROM was finally leaked on-line, however now Tender Brigade’s recreation lives on, due to crowdfunding.
After elevating $21,222 on Kickstarter (opens in new tab), the sport previously often known as Dune: Ornithopter Assault has lastly been accomplished. Absent the Dune license and renamed Elland: The Crystal Wars, it has been dropped at PC by Retro Room Video games, who specialise in recreation preservation.
As an alternative of Arrakis, it is set on Elland, a world the place the Brem-Nar crystals important for making galactic star cruisers are mined. As a raptor pilot for Elland Inc., it is your job to ship crystal gatherers to the crystal fields and forestall smugglers and brokers of the rival Trafford Corp from destroying them. There are 23 ranges, and a few trendy quality-of-life options like the power to save lots of wherever, controller help and management remapping, cloud saves, and picture scaling and smoothing choices.
Elland: The Crystal Wars is accessible on Steam (opens in new tab) as of October 3. As for official Dune videogames, 4x technique recreation Dune: Spice Wars is presently in early entry, and Funcom is engaged on three Dune video games, together with open world survival MMO Dune Awakening, which has but to announce a launch date.
