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You don't want to avoid it..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you guys like RTS and especially for Westwood, this is the game that will overwhelm you until when the next generation, C&C Generals arrives. It has certainly unprecedented 3D graphics in RTS history. I just don't know why the hell that many magazines and web sites consider this as a failure. It has incredible well-balanced three factions with replayability in Online. High requirements hold you down? Well, don't worry about it. It even gives you the option of adjusting graphics depending on your system. There's absolutely no flaws in this great game. Interface is surely confortable for even novice players. Furthermore, its cinematics are just awesome since it was the trademark and traditon of Westwood Studios. However, it just looks mush better in this Emperor Battle for Dune. Get this game if you are a RTS fan or you'll regret it.

Emperor: Battle For Dune

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What a great update to Dune 2000. The sounds and graphics are great and it works fine on my Windows XP Pro Laptop. No freeze ups and the only minor quirks that I noticed is that sometimes the rendering of a unit (most often the harvestor) shows "cloaked" when it's not really cloaked. Also, telling the harvestors to mine spice in a certain area sometimes doesn't "stick" to the orders given. This game has given me many hours (days/weeks) worth of single player real time strategy fun without getting into the complication like Age of Mythology. I only wish we could team up the computer AI to fight against you as the computer AIs will fight one another and you if you select more than one player in the skirmish battle. I haven't played the game online (who knows if people play this game anymore with Age Of Mythology and Age of Empires out there). This is a cult classic that is very enjoyable. If you liked DUNE 2000 then get Emperor: Battle For Dune. You won't regret it.

Better than the original.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics, sound and story line are all great. Looks realisitc and always keeps you guessing as to what will happen next. Great game and a great buy. Strategy is a must for this game.

Emperor: Battle for Dune

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yet another great game from Westwood Studios. Awsome 3D graphics with great support for many graphics cards. Simple camera contols, unlike other 3D RTS games. Great live action mission breifings, Intelligent AI, and Free online gaming.

I recommend a scroll mouse, makes zooming easier.

Sorely disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For a start, the game is incredibly demanding on hardware, even if you turn down all the graphics settings. My computer's about a year old, and has good sound/video cards as well as up-to-date drivers, but the game keeps freezing whenever it gets busy.

Secondly, with the 3D graphics it's really hard to tell the units apart, unless you zoom right in.

Thirdly, your own units are incredibly stupid: They're magnetically attracted to the enemy's guns, even when you specifically select a safer route.

And finally, everything happens so fast that you never get a chance to defend - either you've put up enough defences in the first place, or when the enemy attacks, it's all over in a few seconds.

a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very good. it may be impossibble to beat though. You have to capture all the territories of a mjority of the planet and capture the planet. It is like commmand and conquer but you must make you own alliances,(and lose them)defend territories,make sure you don't retreat or forfeit to much or you will be executed. It is slightly corny that some of the charecters from the movie/book are in this with different names. overall this is a very good 3-d strategy game

Great idea gone bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has some awesome things about it. The graphics, for example. Graphics are just amazing, as many people have probably pointed out. Also the general tactics are awesome. You get to choose where to attack, what races to get on your side, what to defend, where to move your reserves. I have rarely seen anything of this sort before.

Yet the battle tactics are awful. The first few missions are won by pumping out infantry. The next few, when enemy gets infantry-crushing units, light tanks go into battle. Towards the end, you basically build 2-3 spice factories with 3 ramps each, and pump out heavy units, sided with a bunch of lighter tanks for support.

Whichever house you're fighting, in order for Sardaukar or Fremen to efficiently work, you need hundreds of them, because otherwise fire tanks and any other regular machine can just run over them in a second.

This game definitely lacks balance and tactic depth as in, say, WarCraft III. Thus it gets very boring in a few weeks. Nevertheless, if you got the money to buy this, go ahead, it's pretty fun to check out. A fremen riding a worm is a sight worth it already =p

Th Sequel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Same as the dune 2000 only much tougher on the CPU. (Recommend over 700mmxspeed to play OK )

Unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The manual does not provide enough information on unit costs, strengths, and weaknesses. The UI is badly designed and does not allow you to build, deploy units, and manage operations at the pace required by the game. The units move and act stupidly; when I order a group to move to an area of the map they seem to take random circuitous routes, and when they encounter enemies they will not shoot unless specifically ordered to do so, even if they are fired upon. Stay away from this one.

RTS redefined

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game that started it all is reinvented in Emperor. Even though the name and general play of the game is fairly identical to the classic Dune, the houses hand plot have both advanced to their own level. Each house has its distinct advantages and disadvantages. Units are balanced well so that many different stratiges may arise. The rush strategy, which pretty much killed any real stragety in Starcraft, is completley useless in Dune. I've seen wave upon wave of units die at my defenses and only those that are cunning enough actually make it through.

An Excellent game with an excellent story backed up by great gameplay and graphics and a strategy that works. Westwood even managed to take some of the cheese out of its movies. Very good.

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