DO NOT BUY Dune Awakening

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So recently I've been playing the brand

new Dune Awakening, a video game based off

of the Dune movies.

And as an avid fan of Dune and survival

games in general, I knew I just had to

play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's been kind of

bland, boring, and extremely lacking in a

certain kind of luster.

So you start off the game by joining a

server and then making a character, and

you get to choose from all these different

races, which All basically look human

apart from some alien races, which is just

basically human but with different colors

of skin, like really pale skin.

So are they albino?

I don't know, I'd guess they're like a

human form of something.

And then you get to create your character.

So the graphics in the game are not

exactly that impressive.

They look okay for the price point of this

game.

This game's not exactly a AAA title, it's

not like an £80 game, it is a £40 game, so

It's not really gonna have the best

graphics in the industry, but they look

okay.

So you create your character and then

you've got some customization options

which are kind of lacking really.

So you've got a bunch of options to choose

from and it's kind of not really a great

character creation screen to be honest,

although some of the females in it look

okay, I guess I would bang.

So the gameplay is pretty boring to be

honest.

You basically just start off in this kind

of cave and then you've got to crawl

through it because you're wounded and then

basically the gameplay mechanic of this

game is basically just you collect stuff,

you pick up material, and then you craft

stuff.

There's a very extensive crafting system

in this game, and if you're into crafting,

maybe you'll like that.

If you're not, then you're not really

gonna like this game.

I find crafting to be extremely boring.

I don't like to craft.

I just want to get stuff and kill things.

So the combat system is very boring.

You basically just use this knife and then

you spam left mouse button for light

attacks, and you hold it down to do like a

heavy attack, or a slow attack, as they

call it in this game, because they got

this shield system in this game where it

only deflects high-moving attacks.

So if you do a slow-moving attack, it

doesn't deflect that.

Kind of a rubbish shield system if you ask

me.

So then you've got these plastic doors.

I don't know what they are.

They're like plastic film where you slice

through them.

Number one, what is the point of them?

They might as well not be there in the

first place.

Why do they even bother program these thin

pieces of fabric covering the doors.

I mean, I don't get it.

Like, what is the point of it?

Does it open?

Is it actually a door?

Is it supposed to prevent people from

going through it?

Because it doesn't really do a good job at

any of those things, so it's just really

pointless.

So you collect these herbs and then you

just make stuff, and the game is extremely

dull, and the whole environment is based

just sand and brown stuff, like brown and

yellow rocks and brown sand.

It's an extremely ugly looking planet, and

I guess that's the whole point of Dune, is

that you're on this planet of sand like

Tatooine.

But it just looks so ugly.

There's nothing cool about it.

It's just bland and boring and it's all

covered in sand and ugly.

So you just go through the tutorial and

then you got some climbing elements, kind

of like Zelda, where you can just— for

some reason you're able to stick to the

surface of a wall like Spider-Man.

Without actually grabbing onto anything.

I guess she's got claws, maybe.

And you climb out this cave

and you've got to harvest a bunch of plant

fiber,

and then you drink it.

It's all just rather dull.

And eventually you get outside, and then

you fight some people and use this laser

cutting thing.

And then there's like these big boulders

blocking the entrance of a ship, and And

you use the laser cutting thing to cut the

boulders, and there's like a little

minigame, I guess, where you scan the

boulder to look for the weak point, and

then you cut it by tracing along the blue

line.

All very tedious gameplay elements.

And then you talk to this guy,

and then you just keep pressing the

dialogue options until he shuts up and

lets you go on.

He just appears out of nowhere and then

disappears, tells you to go to the ship,

but he doesn't come and help you.

So I don't know where he goes.

So he gives you that little thing and then

you run down to the ship.

You're supposed to avoid heatstroke by

staying in the shadows.

Look, the world is just really ugly.

The only good thing about the world is the

sun looks kind of cool the way it shines,

but it's just all yellow and brown and

sandy.

So you got this crashed ship and then you

gotta get into the ship to find the

captain.

To get the key.

And then there's always dead people out

here.

This game is extremely boring, by the way.

It doesn't run smoothly.

The frame rate was terrible.

I couldn't even get 30 FPS, and I'm

running a pro gaming laptop with RTX 4050

with 16GB of RAM, so it should be capable

enough to play a game like this.

The game doesn't even look good, but it

doesn't run well.

So what is up with that?

I don't know.

And then you laser beam this rock And you

gotta trace the blue thing, but it took me

a while to figure that out because I was

so bored and I just couldn't be bothered

to pay attention to what it was actually

saying.

You know, constant menus keep popping up

telling you what to do.

It's kind of irritating.

Uh, finally I realized you gotta trace it

along the blue line.

It took me a while though.

And the animation for the rock exploding

looks so bad.

It almost looks like Minecraft.

The graphics are terrible.

I thought you had to crawl in this hole,

but then realized you had to actually

laser this rock as well.

I couldn't find where the blue line was,

and then you gotta scan it, and then blue

line's there.

Yeah, yeah, it's a very bland, boring,

dull game.

I'd give it a 2.10 out of 9.

Would not recommend it.

I don't know who enjoys this.

You'd have to be a hardcore Dune fan.