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- From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Dune
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Date: 11 May 1993 17:15:34 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: game, strategy, commercial
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- PRODUCT NAME
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- Dune
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- BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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- A unique strategy game with great graphics and sound.
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- AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
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- Name: CRYO. Distributed by Virgin Games.
- Address: Virgin Games
- 18061 Fitch Ave.
- Irvine, CA 92714
- USA
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- SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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- Reportedly runs under AmigaDOS 1.3 and up.
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- People with only 512K Chip RAM will either have to boot from floppy,
- or they will have to USE the boot menu to disable the startup-sequence and
- then run the program from the CLI. Otherwise, the game will have no sound.
- Anyone with at least ROMS 2.04 has a boot menu. Just hold down both mouse
- buttons when you reboot or power up. Keep them held down until the boot menu
- pops up.
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- COPY PROTECTION
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- "Look up in the manual" copy protection. Installs on hard drive.
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- MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
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- The systems that this has been tested on is an A500 with 2.04 ROMs,
- 512K chip, 2.5 Megs fast. The system also has a GVP HD8+ 50Meg Hard drive
- and a second floppy drive from Roctec. 1 Meg Agnus chip (only 512K enabled
- so far), EHB Denise.
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- A friend of mine says it works just fine on an A1200.
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- MINI REVIEW
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- I'm surprised that hardly anybody on this net ever mentioned the
- game called Dune. This game is absolutely superb. You need OS 2.04 or
- greater to run it. (Probably because they needed OS 2.04 in order to do what
- looks like 3-4 Megs of graphics and special effects that you would only see
- in euro-demos previously and fit it in 3-disks with no compression).
-
- I could easily give a 9.5 for graphics and sound on this one. There
- are reasons though. The original artist did the Amiga graphics, and he used
- color cycling and what looks like copperlists really well. The game runs
- fast with or without acceleration. The only time where I could see the game
- slow down a bit from the otherwise speedy motion is at only one part in the
- game. (I wont tell you what it is... it'll spoil the fun).
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- Don't let the really nice graphics and sound make you think this game
- has no playability. Dune has tons of playability and, unlike any other game,
- the playability enhances as you progress in the game. I can not compare this
- game to anything else; it uses a unique playing system that alters for the
- better when you get better. Technically, this is a strategy game, but of a
- kind that some people who don't like strategy would gladly get into. It's
- weird: you play it saying, "What kind of game is this?" The game then
- surprises you every few minutes, and you're hooked.
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- The music in the game is done really well: lots of nice quality
- samples which I would love to get my hands on. The music suggests our modern
- style of popular tunes, but with some interstellar twists and some pretty
- interesting new groupings of instruments. The instruments they choose make
- for the uniqueness of the style. The write-up in the book about the composer
- seems to tell the truth in every way. I could give you a long analysis on
- the music style, but I won't :). The music is also available on CD. All I
- can say is, think of our modern popular music (American), mix it with a bit
- of Latin rhythm, think of the Alien soundtrack for a couple of the
- instruments, add a bit of the style from Endor (Ewok instrumentation and
- rhythm from Star Wars), mix them together, and that's as close as I could
- come to a picture of what it may sound like. It's a very nice buy. I'm
- already looking forward for the release of Dune II even though I haven't
- nearly come close to finishing this game.
-
- --- Mike Bromery.
- Email: davereed@wam.umd.edu
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