Update on Flash Site

[Mahdi]

If you look at the article below this one, you will see Gobalopper mentioning a new Flash site for Cryo's new Dune game.  As he said, it is in French, not English, but being the good canuck that I am, I'm bilingual (not fluently, but good enough), so I've read through the site and thought I'd tell you all whats in it.  If you're interested in just a particular part of the site, then scroll down.  Each part is in a separate paragraph.

It begins with a general description of what takes place at the start of Dune, with the Atreides going to Dune and being massacred by both the Harkonnens and the Emperor.  There are only two survivors, Jessica and Paul, and they are driven by vengeance.  Eventually they are reunited with the mysterious desert nomads, the Fremen.

Then you go to the navigation page, where you can select history, goodies, making of, press, and screenshots.

The history page holds general information on Cryo Dune, including the interesting tidbit that Dune was the first ever game to be put on a CD.  Then it says that they have the licence of the Dune miniseries.  After clicking continue you go to the Dune museum, which just has the info on the intro re-printed, and shows screenshots of the original Dune game.

The goodies section has a screen saver, and the miniseries trailer.

The press section once again begins with a little bit of history of the Dune licence (they are really making a big deal about it being the first game on CD) and then once again have the intro typed, and then finally has some new stuff.  Well, not really new, we already know it, but it's new to the site.  It says that you will be Paul as he spends two years with the Fremen and fights for the liberation of Dune, buys contraband weaponry, sabotages the Harkonnens, perfects his fighting style, exploits the spice, explores Dune, etc. The next part of the press section says that it is an action/adventure game with lots of finesse and intrigue. Then it talks about Wide Screen Games, and how the game is based on Frank Herberts cult, (their word, not mine), novel, (my word, they said world). Then it gives the release date:  October 2001 for both the PC and Playstation 2.  Earlier reports had set the release at September 2001. And thats it for the press section. (This is getting pretty big, I wonder if Gob's gonna delete it?)

Now we have the making of section.  Now this is divided up into more sections, people and vehicles.  If you chose vehicles, you have a choice of seeing a rendering of vehicle number 1 or 2.  1 looks like it may be a harvestor, and two reminds me of a trike.  As for people, you have 9 choices.  Most of the renderings are already in the Dune artwork part of Wide Screen Games site, although a few are new.  If you click agrandir, a pop-up window opens with an enlarged version of the rendering.

Finally, we have the screenshots section which scrolls from left to right accross your screen showing you the shots, if you want to enlarge one just click on it, there are very few.

And thats it. I hope I've been a little help to those of you who are interested in this game and can't read French.  If you want to see the site yourself, click here.  After reading this and going through the site, what are yur opinions on the game?  Are you looking forward to it?  Is it what you expected it to be?  Post your thuoghts in the comments section or the forum.