Age of Empires II - HD Edition

[Syt]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/?l=english

http://www.ageofempires.com/age2.html

Age of Empires II: HD Edition

In Age of Empires II: HD Edition, fans of the original game and new players alike will fall in love with the classic Age of Empires II experience. Explore all the original single player campaigns from both Age of Kings and The Conquerors expansion, choose from 18 civilizations spanning over a thousand years of history, and head online to challenge other Steam players in your quest for world domination throughout the ages. Originally developed by Ensemble Studios and re imagined in high definition by Hidden Path Entertainment, Microsoft Studios is proud to bring Age of Empires II: HD Edition to Steam!

Key Highlights:
- Re-mastered for high resolution displays 1080p+.
- Enhanced visual engine with improved terrain textures, water, fire and ambient lighting effects.
- New Steamworks features: Achievements, Leaderboards, Matchmaking and Cloud support.
- Share user created content with Steam Workshop support.

Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 Pro
Steam
900x600 minimum display resolution
Direct X 9.0c+ GPU
1.2GHz CPU
1GB RAM
2GB HDD

I'm very pleased by this. AoE2 with its expansion was the only "traditional" RTS I ever got into and played extensively; and the stuff you could do with scripted missions was pretty amazing for its time (there was a fan made retelling of Seven Samurai that was amazingly well done, among others). I sold my CDs long ago, and have been looking for a legit download version ever since.

Even though the price of 17.99 (pre-purchase) is a bit high.

[crazy canuck]

I still have the original CD.  It still gets a spin every now and then.

[Seen]

 

I still got the original CD. Its still in storage for years.

But I still enjoy the game, looking forward to this. As syt said its a lot of euros so I hope I can stomach to wait it out till a sale.

[DontSayBanana]

I'll wait out a sale as well, and then jump at it like I just jumped at Tropico 4.