Dune: Awakening ‘The Vision of Paul Atreides’ cinematic trailer

A vision from Paul Atreides reveals a timeline in which he was never born.

Funcom has released a new story trailer for open-world survival massively multiplayer online game Dune: Awakening dubbed “The Vision of Paul Atreides.”

“It’s exciting and a bit of a relief to finally share the details of the alternative timeline in Dune: Awakening,” said Funcom creative director Joel Bylos in a press release. “It’s the pebble that starts a landslide, and it opens up a lot of really cool opportunities for players to explore when they arrive on Arrakis.”

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Fans of the Dune universe and the blockbuster film franchise from Legendary Entertainment know that its heroic central figure, Paul Atreides, has the ability to see all possible futures, which sets the stage for Funcom’s highly anticipated open-world survival MMO, Dune: Awakening. Following much community speculation and wishlists surging past one million on Steam, Funcom has premiered a new cinematic trailer this week at Summer Game Fest that reveals a mind-bending alternate timeline that promises to put the future of Arrakis in the hands of the player. The trailer is voiced by Paul Atreides, as he contemplates a spice vision of a world in which he was not born. A vision of Dune: Awakening.
While drawing visual inspiration from the award-winning cinematography created for Denis Villeneuve’s masterpiece film series, Dune: Awakening will take place in an alternate timeline to that of the books and movies. Players will be met with a game that stays true to the beloved world of Dune while creating an opportunity to surprise players with a narrative that hinges on one key decision that reimagines the future of Arrakis.
In Dune: Awakening, Jessica Atreides never gave birth to Paul, instead choosing to obey the orders of the Bene Gesserit to have a daughter. She names her Ariste Atreides, who is a character players will meet in the game. This key decision causes a chain reaction that fundamentally changes the situation on Arrakis, leading ultimately to the survival of Duke Leto Atreides and a War of Assassins between the Harkonnens and the Atreides.

This is the Arrakis that players are dropped into in Dune: Awakening; one torn by war between two Great Houses, the Fremen missing after being hunted down, and at the center of it all: the spice that must flow.