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Boy am I glad I did.
The Uplay complaint is moot. You have to sign in one time and then you play from a resident spot on your hard drive. The game runs seamlessly for me in Windows 10, except for one burp in my first play but none since.
It's just as I remember, in many ways more fun than the redundant iterations later. The graphics, rather than feeling crude, give a warm nostalgic glow. And there's still plenty enough to play with in the game that all the extraneous character customizing of today's games doesn't really feel like much of a loss.
My only quibble is that I can't change the difficulty level of the campaigns. It's been many years since I played this puppy and to have it built-in at 130% seems a bit punitive. It's lost in time in my memory if it was always like this.
Still, same great game, same great fun and new great memories. And it runs harmlessly on Windows 10. Color me happy!