![]() With the exception of an expansion pack for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Westwood never made another RTS before owners EA tragically closed the studio down in 2003 - although the ill-juged FPS-RTS mash-up C&C Renegade was the smoking gun there.īut it was a new Dune game, and Westwood's first Dune game, 1992's Dune II, was the first game I had ever really, truly, absolutely loved. It was a bit of a clunker, and killed its developer Westwood's long-running real-time strategy hot streak (albeit already harmed by its 1998 predecessor Dune 2000). Not because of Emperor itself, you understand. Just a couple of months in, Emperor: Battle For Dune code landed on my desk, and, in an instant, I reverted back from someone who liked PC games and into someone who adored them. Somehow I wound up working on a computing and games magazine in 2001, and very quickly had to learn PC games again. I was a big PC gamer in the early-to-mid 90s, but took something of a sabbatical in the last years of the decade, as life + no money got in the way (some cause and effect there, yes). ![]() ![]() One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.Ģ001's Battle For Dune was the first time I remember being consciously nostalgic about games. ![]() Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. ![]()
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