He signed up for classes at Wild Samoan Training Center, a legendary Pennsylvania pro wrestling school. End of the day, he tells me to leave and that I’d never be a professional wrestler.”īautista took the rejection personally. We’re puking, my buddy’s nose starts bleeding. Just could not get rid of us fast enough. And the guy who was running the camp singled us out and literally ran us into the ground. Not only do we look the part, but we’re athletic. “My training partner and I walked in,” Bautista says, “and we’re twice as big as anybody in there. He wound up at an open tryout for World Championship Wrestling, where he figured his years of obsessive weightlifting would help him sail through and earn a contract. I gotta find something.’ I didn't know what the fuck to do. “I was so ashamed of myself that I said, ‘I can’t do this anymore. “I had to go to a guy I worked for at a club and ask him if I could borrow money,” he remembers. “That’s what I did for ten-plus years.”Īnd then, one fateful Christmas in the late ‘90s, Bautista discovered he couldn’t afford presents for his two daughters. “I bounced all night, I worked out, I went to sleep,” he says. But mostly, the gig allowed him to drift into a complacent routine. The job had its risks, of course-Bautista recalls shots being fired and bottles getting smashed over heads, and he was once arrested after a fistfight with two patrons. He’d been bouncing at clubs in D.C., where he grew up, ever since he dropped out of high school at 17. The first time Bautista did something uncomfortable that paid off enormously, he was 30 years old. I want to cover up and have some protection.” But if I put on glasses and a hat, that’s my security blanket. ![]() “Like this”-bare-faced, he means-“I feel exposed. His disarming baritone is soft enough that I self-consciously nudge my recorder a little closer to him. “This is my pacifier,” he says, pointing to his shades. Once we’re seated at a corner table in an empty adjoining room, away from any potential prying eyes, Bautista finally pulls off his newsboy cap and sunglasses and plops them on the table close by, as though he might need to yank them on again at a moment’s notice. (We are, after all, in Tampa-not LA, or even Miami.) At 53, he still possesses the physique of an adult grizzly bear with a CrossFit habit, but in public he seems to shrink himself a little, treading as unassumingly as possible. (“Surprised you’re not at the Maiden show tonight!” he tells Bautista after they shake hands.) It is not for lack of movie star style on Bautista’s part-he’s squeezed his hulking frame into a flattering rollneck sweater and faded red jeans-but perhaps a purposeful lack of movie star aura. Even the host at this establishment, where Bautista dines often, takes a beat to recognize his most famous client. Only, when the wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista does amble in, nobody really looks up from their plates. High resolution patch at the bottom of the page, as well as here. Build your units and collect the melange. For those on newer (XP or higher) systems an updated version is available as the Gruntmods Edition offers higher resolution gameplay as well as online or LAN play at. For those trying to boot a disc onto a system from Windows 95 through XP it is recommended that you download the ISO and use a burner to create a disc. Overall the game is great for fans of Dune and RTS games. The grunts and responses from infantry to the tank units provide reinforcement to the gameplay. The music provides a quality orchestral sound to the epic battles. John Rhys-Davies from the show Sliders and Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy offers a decent performance despite the CD-quality video. The characters speak directly to the camera to you as the military commander, and are a nice touch given the quality of the costumes. The stand-out feature of this game are the somewhat dated, but entertaining full motion video cut scenes. The colorful sprites and backgrounds allow for tons of enemies on screen. The mission tasks allow you to have different goals such as harvesting enough spice or the RTS staple mission 'destroy everything.' There are different difficulty levels that allow newcomers and veterans of the genre alike. The gameplay lets you play as the three major factions of the first book. ![]() Westwood Studios created that game as well as the ever-popular Command and Conquer series.ĭune 2000 takes place in the ever-expansive Dune universe written by Frank Herbert and son Brian. This game is a reimagining of the seminal RTS Dune II. Dune 2000 is a real time strategy game developed by Intelligent Games and released by Westwood Studios in 1998.
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