Dune 2's success sparks 'hype' for Awakening's arrival

It has been a long time since releasing a film in theaters and automatically putting a video game on sale was history since things are now handled very calmly. Here you have the examples of Avatar Borders of Pandorawhich was released in stores a year after the release of the second part or this one The awakening of the dunes, which is now starting to heat up after the success of Denis Villeneuve’s second film.

Dune Part 2, which premiered last Friday, March 1, is a real box office phenomenon and, in its first weekend alone, it managed to reach almost $200 million in revenue worldwide. This, added to the extraordinary reviews he receives, makes this universe created by the writer Frank Herbert

be on everyone’s lips. Which includes us altruists. players of PCs and consoles.

First trailer for Dune Awakening

This box office success of the second part of Dune sparked interest in Dune Awakening has skyrocketed, more than anything because fans now want to shop Arrakis and survive with a kind of Paul Atreides in a plot that, as you know, has a lot of Game of Thrones (wars, noble houses, etc.). This comparison will surely offend some, but as the work of Frank Herbert He is older and was surely one of those who inspired George RR Martin in one way or another.

It is Dune Awakening is developing it Funcomwho alre ady has experience in MMOs like this since Conan exiled

it’s his. In this case the game is a mix of multiplayer RPG with survival, the genre that is currently in fashion and which leads us to have to collect all kinds of materials to build bases, tools, weapons and be able to face dangers, in this case, from the desert planet.

The video you have just above is an example of this. leitmotif This is what drives the game, where our main mission is to survive no matter what. And as they warned him to Funcom“Dune Awakening “It combines the power and creativity of survival games with the interaction of large, persistent multiplayer games to create a unique and highly ambitious open-world survival MMO.” Of course, at the moment there is no release date.

Based on the books or films?

Dune Awakening It is obvious that he will want to enforce the license obtained and that is why many players wonder if the game has more to do with the books or the films. And the answer is that it contains elements of both. It is obviously about recounting events published in literary works but because they were taken into account for Denis Villeneuve’s films. We therefore draw on both worlds to focus everything on the game.

In any case, many will find it more faithful to the cinema because Dune Awakening It takes on the appearance of the characters, settings and other objects that can be seen in cinemas, which is why many will surely identify it with the Legendary Films production. Looks good, doesn’t it? Warm up the chart…