What few people know about Halo developer Bungie is that it started out and made it big as a mac game developer. While this post doesn’t have to do with Bungie or Halo, the genere of first person shooters and the Mac plateform are in the news however. A hit FPS is headed to the mac this May and some say it tops the former mac developer bungie’s latest console and pc creations.
The hit Activision title Call of Duty 4 (CoD4), will be released this may for the asking price of 49.95.
There are only two questions you need ask yourself.
1. Do you have a good enough graphics card to run the game
2. Will this be native or merely a port to the mac ?
Ports at least in my opinion are a few guys redoing code to fit another platform which ends up being less steller then its original counterpart. With games made natively for a platform from the ground up, I know that it will run smoother and perfrom better since its made to work specifically with the hardware and software. Basically ports tend to be half ass after thoughts meant to score some additional sales while native ports are treated as though the game was launching for the first time (the only difference being the os or hardware).
Although since you can run bootcamp or parallels to make vista or xp available on your mac alongside your mac os x, why bother with ports or platform specific native builds at all ?
Before rushing out to buy COD4 or any mac game for that matter, you should make sure it will run. To this end Aspyr has released Game Agentwhich can check to see what games will or will not run on your mac based on your hardware. I remember with great displeasure finding out that my little macbook that could, could in fact not run Civ4.
Hopefully you'll have better luck.
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