Three Moves Ahead 558: Dune: Spice Wars Early Access

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Len, Fraser, and Jon take a look at Shiro Games' Dune: Spice Wars, which just launched into early access. Is this the modern Dune RTS we've been waiting decades for? As it so happens, it ends up igniting an entirely different kind of war in our own ranks.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead.
0:03.4	I am Len.
0:04.3	I'm your host for this week.
0:06.1	And with me, our very good friends, Fraser Brown.
0:10.1	Hello.
0:11.5	And John Bolding.
0:13.8	Howdy.
0:14.9	And we are finally getting to talk about Dune Spice Wars, the first Dune RTS since 2001, actually, which,
0:27.7	believe it or not, I was told was in development well before the recent movie was announced.
0:33.6	So it wasn't, it's not just an effort to to capitalize on, on Timothy Shalame.
0:40.1	I mean, you can tell, right?
0:41.5	Because they've got like no similarities, really.
0:45.7	It was, yeah, because Funcom was trying to figure out what they, like, how to get a game out of the Dune IP, I think, for like a decade now, right?
0:55.7	It changed hands to the people who own it now.
0:59.3	Yeah, yeah, and it's Shiro Games, makers of North Guard, which I think we all are pretty
1:05.3	positive on.
1:06.2	Yeah, definitely.
1:06.8	I think I upset a bunch of people when I said it was so much better than age of empires.
1:13.8	I mean, it is. It is. It's just facts, right? Just facts. Yeah. I want to see more RTSs that have that kind of worker placement model.
1:28.2	So if it isn't a, if it isn't just another movie tie-in game,
1:32.6	Fraser, what is Dune Spice Wars?
1:34.9	It's like North Guard, but not as good.
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