New Interview!!

[Gobalopper]

Just learned that there is a new interview that covers a lot of things we didn't know before. It is at Psychogamer thanks goes out to Avarice for telling me about this.

Below are the main points of the interview.

• Players can select an 8-bit graphics mode with 256 colors for faster play or 16-bit graphics with 65000 colors for more realistic look.
• Harvestors will be like those found in the movie not like the original game.
• There will be 9 missions, 27 total. There will also be alternate missions available.
• Units will be specifically tweaked for each House. ie. Ordos will have fast but weak units and Harkonnens would have slow but powerful units.
• The worms will not be controllable and Fremen will be a Atreides only unit.
• Worms will also be more aggressive and protect the spice fields and have an imporved AI.
• Spice blooms will create new spice fields
• Engineers will be used to take over buildings not infantry like in the original.
• They will be implementing a sell command.
• Mentants will introduce and advise you at the beginning of every mission.
• The Sarduakar will be available only to the Harkonnen.
• The Feature list for the game should be available soon.
• Crates will be adapted into the game for multi-player games.
• The game will feature all new music.
• The new AI will be much smarter.
• All three Houses will be available in multi-player.
• Westwood Online will allow two-players head to head and the game will be exclusive to them.
• They will not release the game until they believe all the sides are balanced.
• A Skirmish mode should be implemented into the game.
• Maps will be 128X128 at the largest like Mega Maps from Aftermath.
• Beta Testing may occur but check at Westwood for more about it later.