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.