Frank Herbert's Dune

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PC Gamer (1-year)

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Worst Game Ever - Less fun than eating you feet [Posted on 2002-11-22]
Firstly can I say that I played this game on PS2 for some reason they don't have that version of it here on Amazon.com. Still regardless of the format this game is so astoundingly bad that it still deserves a savaging. Even on a Playstation Controller the controls for this game are still awkward and clumsy. You chop and change camera with a confusing speed, which is especially annoying, when you attempting to sneak up on some one shoot them from a distance. Paul also has an annoying habit of getting stuck to walls when he is being shot. Normally you can walk up to a wall and put your back to it to sneak past guards and staff but you need to actually pull yourself away from a wall in order to respond to a guards attack.

The gameplay is also the complete pants. It skips or fast forwards through large chunks of the Dune story and used so much of the jargon of the books without clear explanation that you would have to be a serious devotee of the books to follow the plot. Hell this is even worse than David Lynch's Dune movie! Important details like the codes you need to open locked doors are hidden in the smallest most hard to see places that you waste literally hours looking for them. Also for a 3rd person shooter / RPG the lack of ammo is an absolute joke. For example in the second level there are seven guards to kill, each guard takes 3 shots to kill provided you are a good shot and you only have 15 bullets!

You are a complete sucker if you buy this game. Trade it now before it ruins your life. If you are even contemplating renting it don't. Read the book (again) or hire the David Lynch movie of the TV mini series.

Huge dissapointment to Dune fans [Posted on 2002-11-28]
Story adaption is awful, gameplay is terrible, and user interface is very frustrating, to put it mildly. It appears they didnt do a lot of testing before releasing this opus barfo to the public.

a fun representation of dune [Posted on 2003-03-26]
The characters don't look like any of the people you have seen in the mini series or the original film but the gameplay is easy to learn but very dependant on patience and awareness. Most of all stealth is required, much like in the Metal Gear Solid games you have to suprise your enemies and if you can't then shoot them at range.

If your a dune fan give it a try but if you don't like to work in your games don't, this takes patience and control. Experience gamers only!

rated 4 instead of 5 cause the character work is poorly done

Terrible Gameplay - could have been so good. [Posted on 2003-06-23]
This game was one of the biggest dissappointments I've ever had in a game. Dreamcatcher has made some great games, but maybe action games just aren't their forte. This game has terrible controls, you have to use the directional keys for movement and can't use w,a,s,d, so if you are right handed, like most people, it is realy awkward. Every action like opening doors or changing weapons is terrible. If an enemy actually sees you there really isn't much you can do but stand there while they shoot you to death. The voice work was ok, and the look of the game wasn't that bad, but all the other mistakes far outweigh any positives. I have a decent graphics card and it still took me quite a while just to get the game to work. A sad release of what should have been such a great game. I know it looks like fun but really don't bother with this one.

Worst Dune game ever [Posted on 2005-09-29]
The graphic is awful, every character you talk to sonds like to have a rod right up in the @$$, ther's no savegame but when you are in the sietch (the Fremen base), the movement keys are the arrows of the keyboard AND you must use the mouse, a right-handed has a little difficult doing so... there's no difficult setting, it's fixed on impossible, enemies go down with 3-4 shots of the gun, but in the whole level there aren't spare shots fo HALF OF THEM, the targeting system doesn't think corners or boulders can stop your bullets to reach the target, so you'll waste lots of them for nothing, the kriss is utterly useless, you can use it only for sneak attacks to get the water for the enemies, in a direct attack Paul will do amazing, random moves that don't graze a sheet of paper, much less a Harkonnen soldier, if you are walking with the back on a wall and someone finds you, tou'll be shot down before you can get away from the wall, the camera changings will make you crush on a wall or stumble on an enemy you didn't see till the last moment. Don't buy this game, it's a waste of money and an insult to both Herbert's masterpiece and your intelligence.

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