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Rhino222
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Sep 27, 2008, 11:11 PM
 
Just got me a new Intel Mac 10.5.4 What games should i get. I'm looking for first person shooters and third person action games. strategy games are also welcome. my specs are:

Memory: 4gb

Processor speed: 2.4 ghz

Graphics card: GeoForce 8600M GT

rather new at posting specs so if theres anything elsei should have posted. plz let me know. thx!
     
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Sep 28, 2008, 08:19 AM
 
You probably won't get many replies here as most of the gamers on this forum are console gamers.
As I have a PowerBook G4 my gaming choices are limited, but for FPS I enjoyed Halo, Jedi Outcast, Star Wars: Battlefront.

Your MacBook Pro will play Call Of Duty in OS X and really any PC game if you use Boot Camp and Windows XP. You might want to try out Counter Strike.

I haven't been impressed with many of the newer games that I've seen anyway and with almost all development going over to consoles, for a variety of reasons, gaming on PC/Mac is in a decline. Most if not all games are now developed for console, and if there is enough demand then those games will be ported to PC. The only games that I currently own that were developed for PC (and ported to Mac) are Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, and it's those games that I keep returning to and playing, weather base or mods.
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Sep 28, 2008, 10:26 AM
 
Anything on the Source engine... but you'll have to boot into Windows.
     
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Sep 28, 2008, 08:31 PM
 
COD4, Age of Empires III + expansion packs, Civ 4, Spore.

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Oct 1, 2008, 08:01 PM
 
TEAM FORTRESS 2!!! ...but you have to use bootcamp and run WindowsXP. http://orange.half-life2.com/tf2.html TF2 can be purchased on its own through valve for $19.99 and is downloadable. It looks like a cartoon on its surface but underneath is this complex, always challenging FPS involving 9 classes each with their unique skills.

Also, classic DOOM3 is a lot of fun. For some reason it's $50 for MAC (at Apple Store) but only $20 for PCs.
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