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Works perfectly on my 2008 iMac at a fairly high resolution. The game is super fun in single player, and especially fun on multiplayer. If you want a first person shooter game for your iMac, this one is a must-have.
This game is great, totally fantastic. I really should not have bought it, i haven't done school work in weeks. Still great game.
When I installed it on my Mac side it lagged with settings all the way down, aside from resolution. I have three gigs of ram and 256mbs on my video card. I would first like to say that I love this game; the game itself is amazing. I have an xp partition on my Macbook Pro that I created with Boot Camp for the express purpose of playing games.
It should have been fine. Anyway, I pirated the game first to see if it was worth re buying for the Mac and it isn't. It runs much faster on windows. The reason I am writing this review is so people, like myself, don't buy the game for Mac.
The developers decided it would be better to port the game over instead of develop it for the mac platform so.it sucks. So be forewarned.
The weapon modeling is fun and accurate enough to make weapon choices important. I have run the COD4 on both nVidia 7300 and 8800 GT graphics cards.Running with the stock nVidia 7300 card the game was quite playable at the lower resolutions with many of the effects turned off. The ability of higher power weapons to shoot through walls is a welcome realistic addition. The multiplayer version has an elaborate system of perks that allow you to upgrade weapons and other talents the more you play.GraphicsCOD4 has some of the most realistic graphics yet.
Most of the missions are tightly scripted and linear. Although it has been in release on other platforms for about a year, if you are a Mac gamer you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. Cars will smoke and explode when riddled with bullets. Many objects take advantage of the game's physics engine, so you can shoot at paint cans, bottles, and tires, and they will react realistically.
When I did a complete server refresh, I got a list of more than 19,000 COD4 servers. Smoke, haze and shadows are well done, and effects like bullet strikes and explosions will make you think you are there in the firefight. Still, the game is quite enjoyable, although you might be at a frame rate disadvantage during multiplayer.Playing on the more advanced nVidia 8800GT GPU is a completely different experience. If you have this card, don't let this stop you from ordering COD4. Technical StuffFirst of all I am running COD4 on a MacPro Quad Xeon 2.0 GHz with 4 GB RAM w/ OS 10.5.5 (Leopard). You can quadruple the resolution and turn most of the effects on, yet the game play remains very fluid.
There are missions that take place on a ship, shooting from a vehicle, and at a missile silo - all of which have been done in previous COD releases.And if you are looking for non-linear gameplay, you will not find much here. Although you'll have to play at a lower resolution (800x600 or lower), the action remains fairly fluid except for some sequences that slow to a few frames per second.
Some of the scenes are so well rendered they look photo realistic. Note: there does seem to be a small rendering bug in the current 8800GT driver that renders the "heat distortion" effects rather bizarrely (as a distracting reversed mirror reflection), but it rarely affects gameplay.The Single Player GameThe gameplay is intense with lots of 360 degree action.
They are quite fun, but there is not a lot of freedom to pursue alternate courses of action during repeat game play.Still other missions are quite innovative, such as the Spectre Gunship mission, the excellent sniper stalk missions, and the unexpected "Mile High Club" mission in the epilogue where you combat terrorists on a plane.There is also an arcade mode that gives your points for every kill and a countdown timer to beat, perfect for a quick gaming "fix."MultiplayerWhile I have only just begun playing the game in multiplayer, the Mac version is supposedly fully compatible with PC servers. And there are lots of weapons to choose from, along with accessories such as night vision, claymores, flash bang grenades, and Javelin anti-tank missiles.However, the entire single player game is rather short compared to previous COD releases, and despite the focus on modern warfare weaponry, some of the new missions seem familiar.
I haven't done any frame rate tests, but I don't have any complaints. The "Safehouse" mission is very much like "The Silo" in COD2.
However, to really experience the game at its best, you'll want to have a graphics card that is up to the task.ConclusionWe Mac users usually have to wait a long time until we get the good game ports, and COD4 is no exception.
It only took me about 6 hours to play the entire game. It's true that there are slower-paced missions also and that with replay and if you have the reflexes of a 14 year olds, this may not be a problem. In fact it's often a little too intense for my taste. Infinity Ward opted for quality instead of quantity, and given the level of detail, i'm satisfied that I got my $50's worth.I would highly recommend this game if it weren't for one detail: IT DOES NOT RUN ON MY COMPUTER.
I tried installing the game on my wife's Macbook Pro. This glitch goes away when I hit "escape" to go back to the main menu, then return to the game. I contacted ASPYR and spent a lot of time deleting, reinstalling, verifying disk permissions, etc. The mission set is a little short. The games is fantastic, the graphics and the environments are stunningly realistic. I hope that ASPYR is working on a fix, though from previous experience with call of duty, product support is not a strength of theirs.
My Macbook pro fits within the stated requirements, but the single player mode does not run on it. The multiplayer works fine (Which leads me to believe that it's not a hardware issue). You just scramble to keep up with your team and shoot at anything that moves. I get a "quits unexpectedly" message every time, within seconds of launching the app. Unlike the limitless hardware configurations in the PC world, there are relatively few spec option on the MAC side. The gameplay is intense to say the least. but it still does not work.
There are a number of glitches, including the fact that as the game starts, the graphics are flipped horizontally and vertically (The top is at the bottom and the left side is on the right). It runs. The situations a so chaotic with foes popping up from everywhere, and bullets and RPG flying all over the place that it's hard to play strategically. Other than that and some lagging in the video intros, the games runs beautifully, and the frame rate is excellent. All the specs are identical, but it it runs an older OS 10.4 which is NOT supported according to ASPYR and guess what. Modeling and movements of the soldiers are very realistic and contribute greatly to a very immersive experience. Therefore there is no excuse for this - it's just bad testing by ASPYR.
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