WARNING! TODAY ENTRY CONTAINS NO SPOILERS AT ALL! SO ENJOY.

Welcome again for the blog third entry! Let's get straight to the point shall we?

Dune 2000 released in September 1998 was a game that had to deal with big expectations. After all it was a sequel/remake of Dune II, one of first real time strategy games and the very one that given a genre it's current form and it gave it a large legacy to follow. Not only that, aside of gameplay it was also meant to unfold the atmosphere present in the novel series written by Frank Herbert , that the games were based on.

It was certainly an invidious task - after all the book series were known for giving difficult philosophical questions. From the religion to evolution, morality and civilization. Tackling that in the strategy game was doomed to failure. After Dune 2000 one more game in the series was resealed, and so far - 13 years later - the last one. But while the storyline may lost in creating the appropriate feeling,and series lays dormant, the music of the game succeeded and lives on.

Today piece - "Enter the Ordos" - is tune of one of three playable factions and it gives us a really creepy atmosphere, that at the same time leaves no doubt that it has a desert roots. Interestingly enough House Ordos never was mentioned in any of Herbert novels. They are listed in Dune Encyclopedia written by Willis Everett McNelly, but then again the Encyclopedia is considered non-cannon itself.

Todays theme as well as Dune 2000 entire soundtrack was created by Frank Klepacki , known mostly

for his work over Westwood Studio games. Westwood of course were also creators of the Dune game series as well as Command & Conquer games.

Game: Dune 2000

Score: Enter the Ordos

Composer: Frank Klepacki

Official Soundtrack: Yes - Dune 2000: Long Live The Fighters!

That would be all for the third entry of Music of the Day. Stay tuned for tomorrow when we will visit a city that has a rampart crime, but also a knight to watch over it.