FH Dune Interview

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Another interview with Frank Herbert's Dune Managing Director Olivier Masclef was posted today by eUniverseGames. It covers a variety of topics take a look at two of them below:

I understand that Dune's plot revolves around Frank Herbert's popular sci-fi series. Could you elaborate on this?

Yes, in fact our game will be based on a specific timeframe of the storyline:

The game will start when Paul and Jessica crash the ornidopter in the desert. They will soon meet the Fremen and start fighting the Harkonnens and the spice smugglers. It will end when Paul, who is recognised as the messiah, raises the armies of faydakins to regain the control on Arakeen and overthrows the Harkonnens...

What weapons can we expect? What about inventory items?

The weapons are going to be very varied, including the famous Kriss, the fremen knife made with a sandworm tooth, to the maula pistol and the laser... and the shield... remember what happens when you shoot with a laser on a shield???

Regarding the inventory: we intend to make it very user friendly as we don't like games relying on extensive use of the inventory. In fact, although you will be able to use many items, those will be handeled efficiently by the game, so that you won't have to search in the inventory in order to use them...

Unless they have changed the name that should have been Crysknife not Kriss. Other then that the game looks promising and should be out around Christmas according to this interview.