It's time to create a character and benchmark a sandworm in Dune: Awakening, assuming you're buying it in May

Strapline pun was going to beryllium fremen-to-play but it really costs $49.99

Sandworm-bothering MMO Dune: Awakening volition merchandise connected 20th May, developers Funcom person announced, and you tin commencement tailoring your precise ain Arrakish (I curse it's a canonical term) adventurer by means of the just-released quality creator. Any godforsaken delver you nutrient with said creator tin beryllium imported to the afloat crippled astatine launch.

Inspired by Monster Hunter's Hunting Horn, I've precocious gotten into the wont of making characters who look similar Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. I'm not definite Dune: Awakening has sufficiently puckish hairsbreadth to enactment this - not galore large frizzy gingers successful the Dune universe, successful my experience. But I'm consenting to springiness it a shot, for science. Anyway, here's a trailer.

And here's immoderate blurb astir that quality creator: "Fine-tune each facet of your looks, past take your location planet, caste, and mentor, beryllium it Swordmaster, Bene Gesserit, Mentat, oregon Trooper. The last prime determines your starting abilities, but you volition summation entree to each School eventually, and tin adjacent premix and lucifer abilities from immoderate of them."

The quality creator accompanies a benchmark mode, which "lets you cheque your hardware show and strategy compatibility portion being treated to immoderate epic scenes from the game, including soaring with an ornithopter and a melodramatic brushwood with a colossal sandworm."

In the afloat game, sandworms are a persistent menace that roam the satellite and are drawn to the dependable of players utilizing thumpers, mining spice melange oregon conscionable walking astir connected the bare sand. As I discussed in my preview past year, you tin lure the worm into attacking rival spice miners. I deliberation this is the portion of Dune: Awakening that astir has my interest. The thought of gathering different basal and levelling up doesn't truly grip me, arsenic overmuch arsenic I similar the setting.

Read much of Dune: Awakening connected Steam. Ah, steam. There isn't a batch of that connected Arrakis. Water is scanter present than redhead prog stone musicians.