Games with apples: how and what to play on Mac

With games makovodov have not been lucky: developers are in no hurry to communicate with the first not very popular platform, then Apple itself as if mocking his technique supplied a minimum of memory and video card models of production Intel.

Boot Camp

The easiest way to play on the Mac - to put it Windows. In Boot Camp, of course. Despite the "otedennye" section of Windows gigabytes, and the need to reboot required splurge on a copy of Windows (standing, by the way, many times more expensive OS X), this approach has undeniable dignity. First and foremost is the ability to play games that are under Mac unlikely to appear in the foreseeable future. Do not forget about the speed we like it or not, FPS in Windows versions will obviously higher, which is very well illustrated by the Valve updates.

Virtualization

Despite all the assurances of manufacturers' virtual ok "about the game with the help of another creation Parallels or VMWare you can safely forget. Performance and virtual machine capabilities will be enough for Fallout, the ten-year-old shooter or casual arcade games, but attempts to play in something newer likely to turn into a slide show, or hanging system.

In a separate category of distortions can be identified CrossOver Games. With the latter you can play Windows games without spending money on Windows itself. That's the theory. In practice, it will be able to run in a relatively small number of titles, and after dancing with a tambourine. A significant part of the game, regardless of the size of the diamond will fail or simply refuse to work.

Steam

It is finished. This year Steam at last I came on the Mac. And with it the popular games Valve, including the series Half-Life, the two "portal" and the second part of Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead. At the moment, the Mac-section game is quite impressive and includes both fairly well-known titles level Counter Strike, as well as numerous small things indie EDGE level or Revenge of the Titans. And thanks to reasonable licensing policy (one copy you can buy and play on PC and Mac) a significant part of the players hits, before to use the "stim" do not have to buy again. Among the shortcomings can be noted Steam client rather monstrous and the relatively poor performance of games running] under Mac: Boot Camp are they are moving much faster.

Mac App Store

With a native Apple store situation is slightly worse: despite the availability of large number of games, the prices it does not differ humanity, and what's new, and things are amiss. On the other hand, it is possible for the first part ponastalgirovat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare or GTA 3At worst brighten everyday game of Angry Birds. However, at the moment App Store - one of the best ways to purchase games on the Mac, the more that a large part of them is not on Steam.

A quick note: apparently, a considerable part of the game "ported" in an emulator, with all the potential problems.

Indie

A lot of interesting games can be purchased directly from the developer. So Frozen Synapse Online games are sold on a "bought odnnu copy - get two", but still with the ability to connect it to Steam, which sounds more than tempting. From time to time, developers are combined into bundles, the most famous of which is probably Humble Indie BundleThe last time allows you to buy as many as a dozen different games on a "pay as you want."

It is impossible not to remember the "good" word and Pangea SoftwareStill trying to sell junk covered with mothballs titles on the rather odd prices (Nanosaur 2 for $ 20, in 2011; Guys, are you serious?).

You want to play on your Mac in the modern game? Buy Xbox Put Boot Camp, and use the hardware capabilities to the maximum. If your Mac is relatively new, you can try to Steam for Mac, as many "kazualki" it is quite possible to buy in the App Store.