Dune II
Released in 1992 on PC, strategy.
- Year: 1992
- Platform: PC
- Genre: Strategy
- Developer: Westwood Studios
Overview
Westwood distilled the spice war into mouse driven base building, harvesting and unit production lines: the real time strategy grammar in full. Warcraft and Command and Conquer copied it wholesale and the RTS boom followed.
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