This has probably come up hundreds of times before. Today I learnt that Rex was supposed to be a Dune game, and that for what ever reason it never happened.

This actually depressed me, mostly because Dune is one of those things that I always go back to. I wish that FFG did get the license to Dune because I would love to see them make a Dune game. Argh, so upsetting. Who else wishes that they had made a Dune game?

They tried to remake the old Dune board game.  They WANTED to make it as Dune, but the Herbert estate was unwilling to agree to any reasonable offer for the license, so they remade it as Rex.

I too would have liked to see a reprint of the classic excellent DUNE boardgame. As a player of DUNE for over 30 years, I have found it more and more difficult to find others to pbem. Hopefully Rex will develop a devoted fan base as well.

Rex is a good game my group likes it, but it lacks the mythos of Dune.  With Dune people get into character and play the race the way it is in the books.  While FFG does a good job integrating Rex into the TI universe, it doesn't have the draw that Dune does.  So in gameplay I may prefer Rex by a bit, in color and fun factor I prefer Dune.

ok i wanted this game befor but finding out its basicly dune sold me on it.