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! Requires Steam Client to activate. System Requirements Minimum Specifications: OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 Pro+ P
Fantastic Game,
The one and two star reviews for this game are unfounded. They are related to a lack of understanding about digital distribution of PC games. So here are some bullet points to help people who read reviews but not product descriptions:
*You need an internet connection to download and install this game.
*You need to install Steam and register a Steam account to install this game. (Steam is regarded by many as one of, if not THE, best PC game digital distribution services available today.)
*After the above have been done, you CAN play this game offline by launching steam in OFFLINE MODE. (You can easily google how to do this if you need help.)
*If you have problems, please contact support from the APPROPRIATE COMPANY depending on your problem, and wait an appropriate amount of time until any problems have been resolved before giving this product a poor review purely because you don’t like the digital distribution service that has been made very very clear is required.
Thank you, and enjoy your purchase.
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|Great game, just as I remembered it!,
Here are the simple steps. I am on Windows 8.
– buy the game, you then download a small Amazon program which just puts 2 web pages on your desktop. 1 is the product key for Steam, other is for instruction to download Steam.
– follow the instruction to download Steam. Once Steam is installed, you will need to create an account.
– once in Steam, click “+Add a Game” in the lower left corner. Use the product key from Amazon. You then download AOEII, about 1.5gb.
– once the game is downloaded, click on the AOEII HD icon, Steam will launch again to run a first-time setup
– I first tried playing while on-line. I got a prompt to press some key combination if I wanted to jump into Steam Community
– I then exited and relaunched AOEII after unplugging the network cable. Worked fine, and I completed the first game. You can’t play multi-player mode while you are off-line.
The whole install took 10min while I did something else at the same time. If I focused on the install, it probably takes 5min. Didn’t experience any issue what so ever.
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|Brings back memories.,
So it works on windows 7. No problem, no CTD, as for lagging, I don’t notice. Worth it.
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