The German release of Dune II, identical at heart. The very first major console RTS, genre-defining, still well worth rediscovering today.
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Real-Time Strategy1 player12+
Description
The player controls the Dune II houses in this German Westwood RTS version for Mega Drive. Published by Electronic Arts, German version. Real-time strategy with Dune houses, spice harvesting, base building and tactical battles.
Dune II - Kampf um den Wuestenplaneten review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Everything is built for readability on a pad: a command strip always visible, radar in the corner, building icons sharp enough to be known at a glance. The desert itself works in shades of sand, with tank tracks that linger and craters that scar the ground. A remarkably clear graphic interface.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
Dune II Kampf um den Wuestenplaneten is the dedicated German edition of Dune II The Battle for Arrakis, released with a full German localization. Its collector value comes from this German specificity and from the rarity of the RTS segment localized in Germany on Megadrive, a configuration unique to the local market.
Is Dune II - Kampf um den Wuestenplaneten still worth playing in 2026?
A Mega Drive adaptation of the founding real time strategy by Westwood, Dune II offers the conquest of Arrakis with three houses to choose and a spice harvesting system that would define the RTS genre for decades to come. The Mega Drive version loses the mouse but adapts rather well to the pad. Visually dated by now, the title remains an absolutely essential historical milestone for understanding the evolution of real time strategy on console today still here truly indeed for any RTS fan now.
