Frank Herbert’s sci-fi world of huge sand worms and magical spacedrugs and political intrigue and swordfights and Kyle MacLachlan with a pet spacepug and Sting posing in his pants is being digitised once more. Funcom, the Norwegian crew behind Conan Exiles and The Secret World, in the present day introduced that they’re planning to make a number of video games primarily based on Dune. We greatest know Dune spherical these components for Dune II, Westwood’s seminal 1992 real-time technique game which set the blueprint for Command & Conquer and Warcraft and so forth. Funcom’s first Dune game is because of be some form of “open world multiplayer” game, so maybe one other sandbox survival sorta factor?
Dune, proper, is an infinite saga centred on Arrakis, a barren and inhospitable planet which is the one recognized supply of a magical drug, the spice melange. This is the important thing to area journey, it may well help magic powers, it extends life… magic. So it’s no shock that every one kinds of spacefolk are scheming, jostling, and preventing to regulate Arrakis. Oh, and this magic spacedrug is produced by huge sandworms, beasties a whole bunch of metres lengthy that make transferring away from strong rock lethal. Basically it’s just like the film Tremors besides with fewer witches and Kevin Bacon as a substitute of Kyle MacLachlan.
If you don’t know yer classic RTSs, you might know Dune from David Lynch’s pleasant 1984 film adaptation. Or maybe you realize it from Jodorowsky’s Dune, the acclaimed documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky’s try and make a correct bizarre Dune movie. You may need heard in regards to the legendary 1997 film sequel which was swiftly rebranded and recast after a licensing deal fell by, Spice World. Maybe you’ve even learn the e-book, you swot you, or its seven thousand sequels and prequels by Herbert’s son and his pal. Or, y’know, you heard that the beardy fella out Fishman goes to be in a brand new Dune movie made by Legendary Entertainment.
Funcom are obscure about what they’re as much as with Dune. They say they’re planning to launch “at least three” games over six years for PC and console. The solely style we all know for any is the obscure “open world multiplayer” description for the Dune game Funcom’s Oslo studio are as a consequence of enter pre-production on later this yr. I assume that’ll be a bit like Conan Exiles. Beyond that…
“Funcom has a strong history of working with beloved sci-fi/fantasy intellectual properties including our bestsellers Age of Conan and Conan Exiles,” Funcom CEO Rui Casais mentioned within the announcement. Uh huh. Yes.
“So many of us at Funcom, myself included, are huge fans of Frank Herbert’s work and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with Legendary to bring the iconic Dune universe to life for gamers all over the globe.”
Unhelpful. Just inform me: will I get to experience an enormous sandworm? And can my very own title be a killing phrase?
