Granted, but not as elegant as Starcraft 2. I played AoE2 this summer and it was playable but somewhat annoying compared to modern standards of RTS.

Again, I'm no Blizzard fanboy.

Why'd you play it then I for one just deleted it for good after seeding it for around a day, to satisfy my purpose.

What's the point of seeding it? It hasn't been cracked yet, to the best of my knowledge.

(I'd happily be corrected on that though, since that would be hilarious).

I wonder if it's like the cracked beta where it was just a single player skirmish against AI with randomized races.

If it is the full campaign and basically everything aside from Battle.Net matches, how does it save your progress & achievements? I thought those were battle.net only.

Assassin's Creed 2 had the option if you wanted to save on the server or locally. And AFAIK Starcraft 2 saves locally and uploads the saves to battle.net when you're connected.

Well I played and I guess it's good for people that liked the first one since it's almost the same. I'd say is more like a remake with a different campaign. I don't like that everything is still tile based (It's ok for buildings, but I hate it for unit movements). I find the UI still falls behind most moddern RTS games, I find it limited (I don't play many RTS's any more, but DoW 2, Battleforge and Sins of a Solar Empire, all these have some nice features that make micromanagement much nicer (specially better group management), which Starcraft 2 lacks). Oh, and shift+number still doesn't do what it should

The campaign is much better than the original, with varied missions and objectives. I didn't play that much, but I liked it so far.

Special mention I must put into the Spanish localization. Everything is translated, even things painted into the map, in signs, in the cinematics. It's not the first game that does it, but it's very unusual.

I'm not sure if getting it. The single player campaign looks very good, despite what I said about the AI. I haven't played it online, but I don't usually enjoy very much playing RTS's online. So I'd buy it mostly for the single player. I may wait for its price to drop, though, since 60€ seems too much.

I don't think unit movements are tile based. You can stop a unit anywhere. I'm probably misunderstanding what you mean.

Dustin, have you tried closing the downloader and then also ending the downloader process? Oddly, I found that if I do that and restart the downloader about twice, the patch then starts downloading faster.

Stealing it for single player is a dick move. If you want content, pay for it. If you really hated Blizzard and Starcraft 2 that much, you wouldn't even be playing it. You just want it for free because it's not worth the $60 to you.

First, I'm not decided to play it. Second, if I'd be, I wouldn't buy it for that price. I'd wait till it goes down. I've never said I would pirate that (though I must say I should have been clearer in the above post).

Still downloading it! I bought it a week ago.

It sounds like a good game, but I'm not in a hurry to buy it.

I figure I'll wait for the other campaigns to come out. I don't want to be forced to pay for all three (which would be the case if each campaign added new multiplayer features), and at the same time I'd be interested in getting a good price for all three in a bundle. Anyway, I'm undecided on if / when I'll buy it. For now I'll wait.

Nice, how about releasing all three campaigns in one game? Don't get me wrong, longer games are hardly to see these days. But releasing just one campaign is ridiculous. Not to mention the rumors that second Starcraft II (whether full game or just the expansion) will have incompatible multiplayer with this release.

In the end it's just getting more money for the same product with slightly different content. If I'm ever going to play this game, I'm gonna wait some time till the price goes down.

It didn't even have an instruction manual, oddly.

I recall months ago they said the online multiplayer would be the fully functioning version and that you wouldnt need expansions to unlock anything more. I now hear rumours of the opposite. I would be really pissed off it they were true.