Arrakis, Frank Herbert’s inhospitable planet and the setting for Dune: Spice Wars, is arguably the most famous celestial body in science fiction. It sprang tailor-made for strategy gaming with its murderous terrain, political intrigue, and markedly differentiated factions vying for control of a priceless natural resource: the spice. That the foundations of the modern RTS were laid in Westwood’s Dune 2 was hardly a surprise.
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