I imagine that, if I did play it, what I would feel most strongly is that we don't really get RTSes like that any more. I'm sure it gave it some free passes because it had familiar vehicles and Sandworms, but I'm also sure I kicked it harder than it deserved because it wasn't exactly the same.
I'm curious to play Emperor again now, to see how it really feels now I am no longer quite so vulnerable to calculated nostalgia. I look at the sea of remakes and sequels we get now, and I feel so numb. There I was, 21, thinking a game sequel was a way to commune my childhood. Listless remake Dune 2000 was released during my PC gaming dark ages, and so Emperor was my first shot at returning to a universe and a style I'd so adored. 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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