A500 Dune - Intro

One of the most influencial games in my life. By the time (now defunct) Cryo released this piece of videogaming perfection, I had seen David Lynch's Dune movie, wich had a very important part in me actually understanding what was going on.

Yet, the game follows the books much more closely then it's movie counterpart, so before I even realised it, I was hooked in much more then the game, I was hooked on Frank Herbert's Dune universe.

I must highlight the amazing performance by Stephane Picq and Philip Ulrich in the many versions of the OSt for the game, of wich this Amiga version is my favorite. Simply amazing what he did with MOD files. If you don't have it already, make sure you check the link bellow for "Spice Opera", a remastered edition of the OST simply one of the greatest audio CDs ever made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Opera

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• Cryo
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• Stéphane
• Stephane
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• Shiryu

[boudoir83]

Is it a French or Canadian game ? Names of developers in credits sound French.

[ShiryuGL]

@boudoir83 Cryo was a French developer. =)

[skyeez83]

loved it! *______*

[NindeArnatuyle]

Chani is beautiful.

[SamusDrake]

I was blessed to have the PC-CDROM version, and its nothing less than beautiful.

Thanks to the art and design, this game has hardly showing its years. Stunning.

[DarthRushy]

@SamJestesPatafian How do I do the vegetation experiment? Jessica is in the Atreides castle?

[ShiryuGL]

@DarthRushy That's why you're being wiped out. You have yet to drink the Water of Life, right? Check out gamefaqs dot com for the walkthrough, it would be tricky for me to explain all you need before engaging Harkonnen outposts.

[DarthRushy]

@ShiryuGL How do I become a worm-rider? And how do I know the difference, between my troops fighting Harkonnens and my troops being vanished?

[SamJestesPatafian]

@SamJestesPatafian Sorry, I meant put Gurney in the sietch with fremen you train in military skills, not Duncan.

[SamJestesPatafian]

@DarthRushy ... Pay attention to how namy troops are in the squad. There can be 500 or 2500 in one unit so there is a big diffrence. Put Duncan in the sietch you train fremen in army skills. Not forget to start vegetation experiments. It is best to do it near the Atredies castle as by then whole spice will be depleted there. It will motivate troops. Don't launch major attacks until Jessica is released (she will be in a first fortress you capture).

[SamJestesPatafian]

@DarthRushy It's best to read the walktrough. I was able to complete the whole game in approx. 8ght hours. Just move best spice troops to where most spice is to get full stocks. If you send first troops to do espionage they will vanish as they must be expert in army. Buy them krys, weirding modules an laser guns and they will report back to you instead of getting imprisoned by harkonens. .

[ShiryuGL]

@DarthRushy That's weird. Upon sending well trained and armed troops to take on Harkonnen garrisons, they usually take some time to fight them, they don't usually vanish (defeated or captured) right away. By riding a worm into a battle, you also heavily increase Fremen moral in a battle. 

[DarthRushy]

@SamJestesPatafian Yeah, I'm a bit of a Dune expert(besides the Encyclopedia) and I know full well. But still, all Leto mentioned was that he has to go and may not be coming back. That was all. He just vanished. I still think he committed suicide. For one sietch. Other than that, PLZ tell me how to get my troops to fight Harkonnens(I know how to train them and all, but if I send warriors to attack Harkonnen, they just vanish). So that's why currently, Dune 2 is my fav. A little more story, only.

[SamJestesPatafian]

@DarthRushy He is killed (by a traitor, dr. Yue - he does't appear in the game though). The whole point of Emperor sending house Atredies to Dune is to kill Leto who grew stronger and could threaten Emperor's throne.