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Built using id Software’s revolutionary MegaTexture rendering technology, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars features strategic team play, persistent character promotions, and the universe’s most powerful weapons and vehicles in heroic objective-based battles as the Global Defense Force faces off against the alien Strogg invasion. Battles rage on stunning battlefields inspired by tropical, arctic, temperate, urban and desert locations both online and offline against lethal… More >>
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
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For someone who keeps hoping gaming will take off for the macintosh this game is yet another disappointing port from Aspyr. This is the second time they’ve jammed the mac gaming community with a shoddy product that I know of, the first fiasco being Civilization 4 and Civ 4 Warlords. Don’t waste your time buying any Aspyr products, spend your money on other developers for mac. And if you really need to play this game, get a PC.
The exact problem I’ve got with this game is that it starts and then immediately exits when using the new NVIDIA 8800 GT graphics cards on the Mac Pro. Gee, its not like Nvidia uses a universal driver for all their cards or anything, so I can’t see what the problem could possibly be except for some extremely shortsighted error checking on Asypr’s part.
However this type of problem is endemic for Aspyr as a company, just look around the web a bit for fan sites on some of their other ported games, such as Civ 4. Its a miracle they’re still in business.
Rating: 1 / 5
For you folks using a Mac, this review is for you…
I am using a Mac Pro that has twin, 2.8 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors. 10GB total RAM.
and a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT video card. (ATI Radeon HD 2600 chipset) VRAM (Total) 256mb.
And this game is putty in it’s capable hands. Video, sound, online, everything works wonderfully on the highest settings with all the bells and whistles. I bought the game used (Which I suggest, for around $17.00 from a vendor here on Amazon) I have been having big fun learning how everything works, and all the maps, it’s massive and a lot of fun. Please take into account that you are reading the review of a 49 year old man, who still loves first person shooters. I am an original Doom & Quake fan, and have played them all. You must have a machine that can muscle through all of the code that ID can through at it, but in return you will be highly satisfied, when you pop an opponent from 200 yards out. (Ziiiip!) Or come crashing in weapons blazing wiping out anything in your path. If this is not your style of game, and you would rather watch cute critters or bouncing balls, or waste away hours in a puzzles, this ain’t for you. In this version of the Quake Saga, you will need to be a team player. But that’s what makes this so much more then a blind shoot whatever comes into your path, ‘First Person Shooter’. You need your pals, and they need you. Whether your more of a sniper, tough ass, wrench, medic, this game has a place for you to try your hand at strategy in a fast paced, killer game. Smokin Hot! Great Fun!
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t play a lot of games and I am a new Mac user as well. This plays great on my new MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, 512 video RAM, 200 Gb 7200 rpm drive, 17 -inch glossy screen Hi-Res. Smooth video and action. No problems what so ever. I’m very pleased.
Rating: 4 / 5
This game is a blast to play and the work that went into porting it is clearly visible, optimizing it for the Mac OS X operating system in order to make sure it runs on Apple’s sometimes limited software. This game runs great on my 2007 entry level iMac at HD resolutions with nearly all settings maxed out by default. Aspyr just updated it to once again align with the pc version, so although it is sometimes frustrating waiting for games, the quality that Aspyr puts into their ports makes it *almost* worth the wait!
Rating: 4 / 5
You can read up on whether this game is one that you will enjoy without worrying about if you’re reading up on the Mac version of this game.
This review is here to tell you that the port to the Mac was done well, as far as I can tell with my 2008 Mac Pro and ATI 2600 video card. The game is smooth at 2560×1600 on the 2600, though once or twice I have noticed jerkiness with the action gets really intense. I have been on the fence about upgrading to the Nvidia 8800, but I don’t game THAT much so it’s probably not worth it for my use. The 2600 + Mac experience is definitely better than the XP version was on my ATI 1650 Pro at 1920×1200, though of course the 1650 Pro is an older card.
One worry I have as a multi-monitor user is whether launching a game is going to screw up all my windows, or show up on some random monitor. This game does NOT interfere with other open windows, even when running it at a different resolution. It also launches properly onto my main screen. It would be nice if it provided a choice of which screen to run on, but this behavior is OK for me. It also properly blanks out the other screens.
The only surprise for me is that the game requires the DVD to be present in the drive. Sure, a lot of games do this, but I don’t recall other id titles requiring this. Kind of annoying, but not the end of the world.
Rating: 5 / 5