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After watching Dune: Part Two, go play this Xbox Game Pass title
06.03.2024 - 19:24 / digitaltrends.com / Sid Meier / Tomas Franzese
Dune: Part Two has taken theaters by storm after a relatively quiet start to the 2024 box office. It’s getting even more people into this franchise, which is the grandfather of a lot of modern sci-fi stories. Dune also has a more storied history with video games than you may think. If you’re in the mood to return to Arrakis and experience more entertainment set within the Dune universe, you don’t have to wait for Dune: Awakening.
There’s a Dune strategy game available right now on Xbox Game Pass across PC, consoles, and cloud called Dune: Spice Wars. If you’ve ever sunk time into strategy games or are most intrigued by the political machinations that happen in the background of Dune’s narrative, then I recommend you try out Dune: Spice Wars after watching Dune: Part Two.
Spice is life
Developed by Shiro Games and published by Funcom, Dune: Spice Wars is a 4X strategy game. For the uninitiated, 4X is an abbreviation of “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate,” and those kinds of strategy games allow players to do those four things on a massive scale. The most mainstream 4X strategy game series is Sid Meier’s Civilization, and Dune: Spice Wars shares a lot of elements with that game. Of course, it’s set on Arrakis instead of Earth.
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In Dune: Spice Wars, players choose a faction — each of which has their own unique strengths and weaknesses — and fight to maintain the most political power, wealth, and Spice within their faction. In the early game, the biggest worry is ensuring that you are collecting enough water and spice for your campaign to keep going. Ornithopters can scout out the desert, expanding your house’s reach and protecting your Spice Harvesters from Sandworms.
Eventually, you go head-to-head against the other houses to control Arrakis. All players will have to deal with the other factions at the Landsraad, the governmental body that makes decisions that can apply to any of the playable houses. Players have to work to secure enough votes to pass the initiatives they want, adding another layer of strategy to account for. Dune is a critique of government and religion’s constant need to explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate, so it makes sense that a video game adaptation of Dune would make for such a fitting 4X game given its fair share of political intrigue.
If you’re embracing your inner Harkonnen and prefer to annihilate your enemies, you can also do so in combat against both independent villages and other Houses. Unlike some of its 4X peers, Dune: Spice Wars
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