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Smooth video and action. I don't play a lot of games and I am a new Mac user as well. This plays great on my new MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, 512 video RAM, 200 Gb 7200 rpm drive, 17 -inch glossy screen Hi-Res. No problems what so ever.
Fortunately, there's an expansion. C&C3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Generals in terms of gameplay, sound, and graphics. I haven't played it yet, but my guess is that it does for Tiberium Wars what Zero Hour did for Generals.Pros:-Great Graphics (if your processor can handle it, turn everything all the way up)-Great sound-I like the return to the older style C&C game management system. This is much more like the old red alert games than generals.-Challenging (beating a medium army in a skirmish is pretty tough. You'll rapidly find that each team only has 2 or 3 useful units, and your strategies won't vary much from game to game. Unfortunately, like the first installment of any C&C game, your options are a little limited. For this reason, the replay value on this is limited. Beating a hard army is nearly impossible)-Fun campaign (probably the saving grace of this first installment)Cons:-Limited production options, so it gets old fast.-Needs the expansion-If you prefer the two button interface, it's really annoying to play on a mac mouse.
Then Tiberium Wars came along. Anyway - it was a good challenge in parts and the skirmishes are pretty good - you can even pick the style of your opponent - turtle, rusher etc.The only down points are: - It's more expensive than the PC version (I saw the PC version for about £15) and whatever version you get Mac or PC - it is a native windows game - so if you have a windows PC - just get the windows version.- Because this is a windows game port - your mac will run a emulator in the background (its like wine for Linux). I did put some of the graphics levels up a bit - but game play was very slow.- There was enough cursing to be slightly annoying - but that is just me I guess.Apart from that - it is a very absorbing game and getting your mind around all the units of all of the sides will take a while. This is not a major issue - but it must look SO much better on a PC. It started with Dune on my 386 PC and then Red Alert on the 486 onwards. I found a heavy frying pan (copper base if available) or pot or oven tray works well. GDI are pretty tough to fight against.
The result is a boiling hot mac laptop on your lap. There are a few surprises in some of the missions which can be interesting. I had to pick the least amount of graphics details in most areas. Tiberian Sun was a favourite of mine (on a Pentium) - then came along Red Alert 2 - that was just great.
I purchased this game as I wanted a MAC game to fill in a little spare time and test out my new MAC.I have always been a PC user until recent times and have always loved this style of game - especially the Weswood games. I have a intel 1.83GHz MacBook Pro and I had to get some extra memory to run it (I got 2GB cheap from Crucial).The game is great. The only benefits I can think of for your real life are organisational skills and problem solving. I held off getting more of these games (generals - expansion packs etc) as they are too addictive. I actually found this very difficult in parts - I don't remember other games in the series being so hard. The alien missions are unlocked when you totally complete the GDI and NOD missions (that means taking on the aliens at the end). It is times like this you wish for water cooling.- As it is a windows port and is intensive on the mac - you are limited to the graphics options.
On top of that it is graphics intensive. The stories keep you hooked to the missions. It got so hot that I had to get some sort of heat sink device to calm my poor mac fans down. My only wish would be for friends to have the game who I could fight against - or that my wife would get good at it.Hours of intense battle fun.
Macbook users, check your video card in system profiler. This game will not function with the GMA 950 integrated card. It's surprising that it's in the fine print in the readme file.Complete waste of time and money.
Apple users count your blessings and do not miss on it.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Definitely NOT. YES (sometimes the only solution)- Is it GENERALS 2.5. Let me make it clear from the beginning: GREAT GRAPHICS.
I particularly liked the exhaust distortions, the dust of the passing mammoth tanks and the burning debris falling from destroyed flying units.And for graphics like that it does not require the moon an the stars hardware-wise. I had STALKER gathering dust waiting for my next PC - only, when it will eventually be playable, it will also be.obsolete.The story moves along, new units get unlocked, you gather, you built, you defend, you read the terrain, you amass your forces and you push forward hoping for the best. Physics and details are AMAZING. As much as one might expect from a COMMAND & CONQUER Game.- Can you still hog resources until you tank-rush the opposition. It has a clear C&C character.True, I could do without the wooden acting of Michael Ironside.
Mostly YES.- Does it require tactics. No try it again with the Bad guys.Where it misses the 5th star: one cannot hold a battle formation while moving as most major units move at different paces and (although the AI has improved) they keep bumping on each other. Even my 3year-old office system sporting a 3.2MHz P4 with 2GB of RAM and an nVidia 7600GT can manage the highest settings.Why is this important. May be the next C&C could have some TOTAL WAR infused into it, with battle formations options.- Is it balanced. (Gone are the days of Kari Wuhrer.Lock'n'Load).The Mac porting of this excellent game was long overdue.
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