I have really good memories of this game, had it on my first PC and man, blew my mind. I remember Blizzard being smug about this game when the 3rd one came out, it didn't run well on new machines and someone asked the developer if they're re-release the game to run on modern hardware and the developers just acted like that was the dumbest thing they'd ever heard, just play the new games, it is so much better. Looks like thy're back-tracking a little bit. It is a good thing because this game is amazing and you really need to play it to understand how games were evolving. I'm going to wait to see if they release the expansion before I buy it, I had the expansion and can't remember what it added but I remember it adding hours onto the game play. I also hope they fixed the issues it had on modern hardware, it kept crashing for me in I believe windows 7. I'm a Linux user but installed 7 to play some games and this was one that wouldn't work.
Incredibly easy to install, and it runs on my fitpc3 with a slow AMD APU. If you use an Ubuntu spin(I use Mint) then the PPA from project Arx Libertatis (google it) has everything you need to install from the GOG exe. Even if you play it on Windows then you should look into the Arx Libertatis project, it is an update on the source and allows 1080p play and much much better frame rate with fewer glitches!
