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A remastered version of Age of Empires is being released for the game's 20th anniversary:
Microsoft is updating the game for 2017 with a modernized interface and gameplay refinements. In addition, said Isgreen, "We've re-orchestrated and re-recorded the entire soundtrack to the game" with a symphony. Multiplayer will be available via Xbox Live. Microsoft previously remastered 1999's Age of Empires 2 — that upgrade, Age of Empires 2 HD, was released in 2013 on Steam. Forgotten Empires, the studio that developed Age of Empires 2 HD, is also making the Definitive Edition of Age of Empires.
Also at VentureBeat and PC Gamer.
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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition adds 4K Resolution, Zoom Levels, Remastered Soundtrack
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After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access
cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 13 2017, @12:34PM (4 children)
See WarZone 2100 for a similiar era game that proves fully rotatable 3d could work, even in the same envelope as Age of Empires, with plenty of units on-screen and a good balance of scalable and rotatable views in the heat of combat.
Added bonus: They actually had veteran units that could carry over between games, and a 'veteran unit stack' so that when you decommissioned units their experience would remain available for the next unit built. Basically any unit you could keep alive in-game, even if it was a shitty older unit, could later become pivotal to your war strategy because it lent you a more experienced crew causing your next vehicle to better hit the enemy and sustain more damage before being lost.
Alas many of the good indie studies died out and the newer generations don't have nearly as many teams pushing the boundaries like they used to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 13 2017, @12:53PM (2 children)
Ha, thanks for the reminder! Warzone 2100 was one of my favorite games back then. Interestingly, seems it was open sourced, and is still being developed: http://wz2100.net/ [wz2100.net]
So I think I will download and see how good it is now :)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by KGIII on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:42AM (1 child)
Notably, it even has a Linux build, though you need to go to a different site for it. I'm not sure why they didn't put the build at SourceForge. I didn't look, but it seems likely that one can just build from source anyhow. Still a .deb is nice to have.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Wednesday June 14 2017, @10:25AM
They do have a deb. Also it is in the official repo's. I've been installing and playing it fine for years this way.
root@Phobos:~$ apt search warzone
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
warzone2100/stable 3.1.1-1 amd64
3D real time strategy game
warzone2100-data/stable 3.1.1-1 all
data files for warzone2100
warzone2100-dbg/stable 3.1.1-1 amd64
debug files for warzone2100
warzone2100-music/stable 3.1.1-1 all
official music for warzone2100
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday June 14 2017, @02:04AM
Another game that showed that 3d rotatable isometric games could work (really well!) was Bungie's Myth: The Fallen Lords [wikipedia.org].
Awesome game. Looks like it might still be available [myabandonware.com].