They can ferry players to other planets in massive cylindrical-shaped ships called Heighliners. Most of 100 missions and 33 maps will be carried out in campaigns on the desert planet of Arrakis. Here players will have more to worry about than just their enemies. Underneath the planets sandy surface swim three different sizes of worms. The large worms are capable of swallowing an entire unit.
Players can send Thumpers out to call the worms while smaller worms can be ridden into enemy camps.
There will be more than an hour of video clips threaded throughout the game to keep a cohesive story line during the game. Kucan and editor Curt Weintraub refer to the two terminals while they talk about what it takes to edit nearly 24-hours of videotape for the game. The shoot, which took two weeks, called for elaborate alien costumes and some amazing make-up jobs. Kucan and his crew worked around the clock to breath life into the 75-page script. Which, when edited, will be the FMV sequences that push the game s story along.