While 1989's Herzog Zwei is arguably the first real-time strategy game ever and one of the most impressive game to ever bless the Genesis library, Dune set the standard for what would later become the entirety of the RTS landscape: Age of Empire, Command and Conquer, Starcraft, Warcraft all came from this 1992 masterpiece. It is impossible to fathom that a game like Dune 2 could make from the MS-DOS computer to the Mega Drive, with its massive map and simultaneous action requiring what would seem like a massive amount of processing power. The graphics and sounds don't compromise, being the same as the computer version, with digitized voice for every character actions. All 3 campaigns are available, totalling at over 20 hours of playtime. Dune II is undoubteably the most impressive Genesis port to ever fly under gamer's radar.

Reviewed on Jan 29, 2022


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