The rub was, however, that there Acre heaps upon heaps of baddies out there, who were up to the same thing as you.ĭune 2 scored a particular hit (with me at least) in that it wasn't 'turn based'. You couldn't see diddly, essentially, until you sent wouts out to have a little looksie.

The unexplored areas around you, as with Civilization, were initially 'blacked out'. The more you managed to build up your base, the more goodies you could make - such as soldiers, tanks, rocket launchers and so forth. I'm not explaining Civilization as well - we'd be here all hay), and added to it an element of Sim City, whereby you had to set up a 'war base' in the middle of an unknown territory.

So here's a quick prequel update for the uninitiated.ĭune 2 took the viewpoint and exploratory factors from CiVilizat-Iplease. And this can be forgiven, seeing as it did come out over a year ago. Rhe only reason for not being up to speed at this early point in the view has to denote a severe unfamiliarity with Dune 2. (If it was set on Arrakis, of course, which it isn't - but you know what I mean). The only extra information you may require is that immand & Conquer has been produced by the same am who wrote the twice aforementioned Dune 2, and could, very very easily, be called Dune 3. Make it look more mathematical, how about this: C&C=(D2+CF)'5.

Ready? Command 6 Conquer equals Dune2 plus Cannon Fodder, times five. Now before we begin, here's the entire review summed up in a handy, bite-sized algebraic equation.

Command and conquer 64 bit