Funcom announces open world game Dune: Awakening and shows trailer – Gaming – News


Writer Funcom has launched a cinematic trailer for Dune: Awakening, formally asserting this sport. It’s an open world MMO with survival parts set within the Dune universe of sci-fi author Frank Herbert.

The announcement throughout the Gamescom honest did not say a lot in regards to the gameplay and nothing will be seen within the trailer. funcom says that the sport is impressed by Herbert’s masterpiece and the latest Hollywood movie by Denis Villeneuve. The signature big sandworms will definitely be current.

There’ll in all probability even be some improvements within the sport; Funcom talks about ‘exploring thrilling new potentialities within the franchise’. A minimum of in Dune: Awakening, gamers could have the prospect to discover a ‘huge and seamless’ Arrakis ‘like by no means earlier than’.

In line with the writer, the sport combines ‘the grittiness and creativity of survival video games with the social interactivity of large-scale, sustained multiplayer video games to create a singular and impressive open-world survival MMO.” Gamers can go to uncharted sectors and uncover secrets and techniques and riches earlier than storms change the panorama.

Escape from sandworms may also grow to be a gameplay factor, as will constructing a hideout right into a full-fledged base. As well as, gamers can transfer round within the signature automobiles from the Dune universe.

Trying to find spicedeploying a harvester and defending these operations can also be essential. The latter implies that there may also be a whole lot of combating, with gamers ‘seamless’ transitioning from armored automobiles to battles within the flying Ornithopters. There may also be an in depth crafting system within the sport and gamers can even purchase new abilities by way of spice.

There may also be a transparent political factor within the sport: Funcom talks in regards to the potentialities for gamers to chart their option to energy and construct their affect within the Landsraad. Intrigue will play a not insignificant position on this.

Dune: Awakening is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence consoles. events can already join a beta on the official website. The writer says it can share extra details about the sport within the coming months. No launch date has been introduced in the intervening time.

This sport is Funcom’s second Dune sport. The corporate introduced in 2019 that it had signed a cope with Legendary Studios to make not less than three video games in Frank Herbert’s universe. The primary sport to be introduced is Dune: Spice Wars and Dune: Awakening is the second sport introduced now.