[CaptainHaddock]

Unless you have a quad and über graphics card, anyway. On the lowest possible graphics settings, on a small map with only a few AIs, it's so slow and jerky as to be unplayable on a G5 iMac (last revision before Intel iMacs). From reports I've read elsewhere, it's hardly any better on a brand new Macbook Pro, Apple's best hardware aside from the Quad.

Oh yeah, sound and most animations also don't work.

Want to try turning up the graphics and play on a huge map with lots of enemies? Good luck, there's no Mac out yet that'll handle it.

It's one step backwards for Mac gaming.

[Timetheus]

I've found it playable on a 1.83 MBP with the 128 Vid Card. It gets choppy on "Huge" maps with enemies (like the Earth 1000 AD map), but still playable. It's definitly a BEAST of a game, but that's why the requirements are so high, right?

[CaptainHaddock]

that's why the requirements are so high, right?

Since the game apparently runs fairly well on slower PCs, I'd say there's an optimization issue as well.

[Yose]

I'm running on a 2x2Ghz G5 wih 3.5 GB of ram - I've got my graphics set at medium and on a regular sized world it's quite playable. I'm not running into nearly the same amount of bigs as people have been reporting. (OSX 10.4.7)

BTW, the best thing about the game so far is the openingmenu soundtrack. It just makes happy!

[Timetheus]

Second that about the menu music.

The game is fairly buggy. I've heard it had performance issues on PCs too, though it does seem to be be less optimized then the Windows version (I've also noticed PC game makers are more optimistic about requirements - SimCity 4 supposedly runs a 500 Mhz PIII with a 32Mb Vid Card ... good luck, my Dad's 2 Ghz Dell was nearly brought to it's knees with large cities).