The great Dune II on Mega Drive, the first true console RTS. Controls adapted to the pad, depth fully preserved : a monument of real-time strategy.
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Real-Time Strategy1 player12+
Description
The player commands one of three Dune houses to control Arrakis spice in this European Westwood RTS. Published by Electronic Arts, released in Europe in 1993. Genre-founding real-time strategy with spice collection, base building and varied armies.
Dune II - The Battle for Arrakis review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Westwood renders Arrakis as a planet of ochre sand where every house flies its colours: Atreides blue, Harkonnen red, Ordos green. Buildings assemble on a grid, sandworms burst up through the dune, and briefings pass through fixed portraits with heavy stares. A graphic identity that set the codes of the genre.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
Dune II The Battle for Arrakis PAL is the European edition of the Westwood Studios/Virgin game, released in a modest print run on Megadrive. Its collector value comes from the fact that it is the only Westwood RTS ported to a 16-bit Sega console in Europe and that the PAL version remains scarce complete in box since production ended.
Is Dune II - The Battle for Arrakis 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.
