"complete rewrite" means the code was rewritten, not art/data assets
same thing with OpenRCT2 or GZDoom or anything like that, you need the game files
if they included everything you need to play the game for free with the original art assets, it would be illegal
There's tons of stuff like that. E.g. open source Doom ports that still require the .wad files of the game.
Recently stumbled upon a remake of Dark Forces, called The Force Engine. High resolution play enabled, save games, crosshair. These kinds of mods aim to make the games better but they cannot legally provide the assets for them.
it's less than $3 on GOG at the moment.
And it is easily available through other means.
I still fire up HOMM3 + HD + HOTA every now and then.
I mean, they can't really tell you "here is a torrent with the necessary assets."
They have to pretend they don't know what pirating is so that Ubisoft's lawyers can pretend that's not what's really happening for a huge chunk of the users.
So yeah, you can buy it (it's usually cheap on GOG) or you can pirate it if that's your thing.
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