Games for Mac's

[Paulie92]

For my uni course (Audio Engineering) I decided to get a Mac. Unfortunately there aren't all that many games availiable for Macs

At the moment I have: Deus Ex (1), Starcraft, Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3 (on wishlist I'm ordering the computer today)

It's a Macbook Pro so it might struggle a little bit with really modern releases, but otherwise if you could lend your thoughts to recommending me a few more titles I would be grateful. Cheers

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Portal, perhaps?

It might still be free on steam. Possibly.

 

[Korten12]

playing on a Mac!?

jk, um, Valve released a bunch of their games for MAC's, and if you can play Starcraft 2, I assume you can play them. and don't worry about buying a bad game from them, all of their games are good.

Go the Mac section on Steam also for more games.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I suggest getting Steam. It has support for Mac, and a whole section of games for the Mac that you can buy.

 

[Eicha]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpn3L3bSJQ&feature=search

'nuff said.

 

[Aidinthel]

Half-life 2 is on Mac, and so is Team Fortress 2. If you like Penny Arcade you could get their games.

 

[Paulie92]

Oh sweet! Christ you guys are quick

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Steam is now available for Macs so there's a vast selection available there.

 

[The Shade]

I use a Macbook Pro as well, and I currently have:

Warcraft III and Starcraft (+expansions)
Civilization IV (+expansions)
The Orange Box

And I have ambitious plans to expand onto Age of Empires III as soon as I get the chance.

Also, it may be incredibly hard to find, but I never rest on my eternal search for the first two Fallout games for my Mac.

 

[blankedboy]

I suggest Sauerbraten, it's a free open-source deathmatch FPS. Best thing about it is that it literally has NO LAG.

 

[skystryke]

I'd suggest Escape Velocity Nova or pretty much any other game already in this thread.

 

[migo]

playing on a Mac!?

jk, um, Valve released a bunch of their games for MAC's, and if you can play Starcraft 2, I assume you can play them. and don't worry about buying a bad game from them, all of their games are good.

Go the Mac section on Steam also for more games.

I'd say it's more like 80% are good, there are still a few bad apples in the Mac game selection.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Steam. There's been a lot of games getting the Mac treatment on there.

 

[Korten12]

playing on a Mac!?

jk, um, Valve released a bunch of their games for MAC's, and if you can play Starcraft 2, I assume you can play them. and don't worry about buying a bad game from them, all of their games are good.

Go the Mac section on Steam also for more games.

I'd say it's more like 80% are good, there are still a few bad apples in the Mac game selection.

well I was talking about the Valve games all being good.

 

[0p3rati0n]

There is Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare for the mac. CoD2 is still a lively community and I would thing CoD4 is the same. Also High-five for getting a Mac!!!

 

[s001911]

Install Windows as dual boot. Problem. Solved.

 

[Paulie92]

Install Windows as dual boot. Problem. Solved.

Seeing as it's a Laptop that'll kill the battery about three times as fast and take up a helluva lot of hardrive space that I need for my music (70gb and climbing)

There is Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare for the mac. CoD2 is still a lively community and I would thing CoD4 is the same. Also High-five for getting a Mac!!!

I never really liked Call of Duty 2, Modern Warfare 2 was fun though *returns high five

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Install Windows as dual boot. Problem. Solved.

Seeing as it's a Laptop that'll kill the battery about three times as fast and take up a helluva lot of hardrive space that I need for my music (70gb and climbing)

If you are getting a new one they have HDD's over 200GB, a partitioned HDD can be as little as 12GB and you only really need as much enough to hold a couple of games at a time, alternatively you could use a program such as Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products. It's basically a virtual machine if you are familiar with those and works well.

Otherwise there are tons of games on Steam for Mac these days.

EDIT: Just to be clear I have my 4 year old Macbook Pro HDD is like 80GB and I have a partion with XP using bootcamp (though they do support Windows 7 now) and it works fine for older games like Oblivion.

 

[0p3rati0n]

There is Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare for the mac. CoD2 is still a lively community and I would thing CoD4 is the same. Also High-five for getting a Mac!!!

I never really liked Call of Duty 2, Modern Warfare 2 was fun though *returns high five

In my opinion CoD2 is the best CoD there is. Great gameplay, Captures WW2 very well, and the multiplayer isn't shitty. No perks, no killstreak rewards, no weapon customization and *drum roll* it has dedicated servers. Just the way it's suppose to be! Amazingly the community has a ton of players still there unlike the 360 version.

I don't have either CoDs that I suggested for my Mac seeing how I had CoD2 in the past for Windows. I also have a virtual machine running Windows 7. So why buy it again?! (damn the forum doesn't recognize an interrobang) Plus I have CoD4 for my 360. Once again why pay for something again when you already have it?

Spoiler: nerdy Mac stuph

MacBook Pro 13" with a 550 GB HDD (this baby is going to last me all the way through college and I'm a sophomore in High School! )

 

[Paulie92]

EDIT: Just to be clear I have my 4 year old Macbook Pro HDD is like 80GB and I have a partion with XP using bootcamp (though they do support Windows 7 now) and it works fine for older games like Oblivion.

ah yeah, it's about 500gb (just went and ordered it now)