Top games for mac osx

Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, definitely.

If you've got a high-end Macintosh, get Doom 3 when it comes out.

Keep in mind that to get the best experience from these games, you need quite a bit of RAM and a good video card, like an ATi Radeon or NVidia card. You also need a PowerMac that has a relatively high clock speed, like a B/W G3 @ 450MHz or a G4.

I run a G4/400 PCI machine with an ATi Radeon 7000 card, and Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament run fine. I'm guessing, from what I've read around the internet, that Doom 3 ain't gonna look so great for me.
 
No Mac user should be without these games:

1. Exile (Myst III)
2. Tropico
3. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
4. Deus Ex


Wolfenstein especially puts the Mac on a map in terms of 3d walk-through games.

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When I get my new iMac (I'm counting the days ... about 58 :( ) the second piece of software I'm going to buy (only after MS Office) is Castle Wolfenstein. I played it on my brother's PC and it's freaking fun!

BTW, has anyone else play Wolfenstein on an iMac? I'm wondering how good it runs, since it was impossible when I tried the demo on my iBook 500 (I know, I know).
 
I run Wolfenstein on my G3 466 Mhz iBook (128 Rage ATI) and it runs just fine...with all the graphic settings set for the lowest. :(

But still, Return to Castle Wolfenstein would be your best buy ever! If you have a G4 with a Radeon it runs awsome and multiplayer is even cooler!

So, there's my 2 cents.
 
I'm a big Civ III fan...that game can really waste A LOT of your time...LOL

There was also a time when I spent hours on end on Battle.net with Diablo II...another addicting game...
 
Originally posted by Erix


Did anyone said Civ3? :rolleyes:

Erix.
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I'm glad there's another Civ player around...you can definitely attest to how addicting it is then. LOL Every single stinking game lasts a couple hours...its insane...

And Matrix Agent hit it right on the head with Starcraft...I remember endless games in undergrad...
 
Definitely Civ3...

I would add Tropico to the list, if it's actually playable under OS X. It's amazingly jerky and slow under OS x... I am very disappointed with the Carbon port. :(
 
Originally posted by Izzy

I'm glad there's another Civ player around...you can definitely attest to how addicting it is then.
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I sometimes forget to eat something while playing Civ3. And sometimes I see myself building "Sun Tzu's Art of War", going into wars with enemies while sleeping.
Not a good game for human health.

Erix.
 
Originally posted by Erix


I sometimes forget to eat something while playing Civ3. And sometimes I see myself building "Sun Tzu's Art of War", going into wars with enemies while sleeping.
Not a good game for human health.

Erix.
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LOL...I've done that as well...it's hard to stay awake and alert when it's almost 4 am and you've been playing civ3 since 9 pm. ;) That game should come with a warning label telling you it's gonna steal all of your free time and take all of your most productive hours to boot
 
Originally posted by Matrix Agent


1. Starcraft:D
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Speaking of which:

StarCraft won more awards than any game to port to the Macintosh thus far! So if you guys have a 'game list' and don't have at least BroodWar or StarCraft, then you call that a game list? Pft...
 
TRANQUILITY!!!!!!! BEST OSX GAME BESIDES FOR RTCW

and my second favorite game is watching the itunes visulizer..... lol

others are civ3(great)
starcraft(bnet forever!)
diablo2(osx version is buggy)
 
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