Machines at War: light RTS
I suspect like a lot of you I spent a lot of time visiting family this Christmas season, and while I love to see the folks sometimes you just need a little break from the togetherness. Unfortunately, however, my road machine is a MacBook with its anemic graphics, so I went looking around for a decent game that would run on limited hardware. And I found it. Machines at War is a light-weight 2D real time strategy game in the tradition of StarCraft.
While it's not the deepest RTS available it runs great on the MacBook. The graphics, while limited, are quite serviceable. It doesn't support multiplayer and the total number of units is limited, but it's prefect for whiling away an hour or two on the road. Recommended.
Machines at War is $19.95 from isotope244 and a demo is available.
Incidentally, Apple has suggestions for gaming on various hardware, including the MacBook. What games have you found to run well on limited hardware?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zach lutz said 9:50PM on 1-01-2008
World of Warcraft runs well on my MacBook.
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Timm said 6:33AM on 1-02-2008
I've bought M@W, and like to play it when I really have nothing to do. Plays nice on my intelMac, but not so on my PowerBook G4, but I guess that's expected.
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Dave said 10:16PM on 1-01-2008
A MacBook is limited hardware? How about my 17" 1.33 G4?
Or my Snow iMac G3?
Am I that far behind the times?
{{Chorus of Yes's}}
Got to love Apple Hardware - but it sure makes me want to build a Hackintosh.
Apple - are you listening? This long time user/evangelist/stock owner wants a mid-level tower he can upgrade!
- Dave S
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Pete Zich said 10:25PM on 1-01-2008
I'm with you about the tower, so annoying that there is so little that users can actually service in any machine but the Mac Pro.
Eric Warnke said 10:40PM on 1-01-2008
Funny since I just loaded up starcraft again on my MBP and it runs great. I could probably run it under darwine if I wanted to avoid rosetta. It requires so little true processing power it's not funny. Those on PPC hardware will not have that problem.
Either way it works 100% without issue and even works with some windows "spawn" for local LAN games once you upgrade them to 1.151 ( otherwise the windows clients can only do IPX ).
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boatofcar said 1:42AM on 1-02-2008
Warcraft III will run extremely well on any Intel Mac. Heck, it runs fine on my G4 iBook! No need to go RTS lite when you can have the real thing. Not to mention you can score the WCIII Battle Chest for under $30 nowadays.
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Bassie said 2:41AM on 1-02-2008
I have to second boatofcar. Warcraft III is and runs great on a MacBook.
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aspro said 3:07AM on 1-02-2008
The only game I play on my Macbook is Europa Universalis III. Runs a treat and is a extremely solid strategy game.
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Kevin Rye said 9:19AM on 1-02-2008
Macheist.com games from Mission 1 and 2: Runic and Enigmo are awesome and run great on a 2.0 Core Duo MacBook (original rev)
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ben said 11:37AM on 1-02-2008
My vote's in for BZFlag...great multiplayer game.
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adam said 3:22AM on 1-03-2008
Open Arena. I run it on my Core Solo macbook and it runs perfectly. No lagging. At all. It's crashed once
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Geoff Goins said 9:05PM on 1-03-2008
Second the Open Arena, works flawlessly and fast on my Core Duo not Core 2 Duo MacBook. Needs an update to work in the wide screen mode tho. Also, if you can find it, the original Halo is great. Neverball, Defcon, and Scetchfighter are all fun too. Actually, Defcon is just a little creepy.
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German. said 11:20AM on 1-05-2008
I love to play Call Of Duty, with the United Offensive expansion. It works great in any Macbook, and even on an iBook. We make LanParty with that game and it's great.
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Gaurav Patel said 5:48PM on 1-10-2008
Urban Terror runs great on my MacBook! Some maps do run a little slugglish but you can turn down the graphical settings (I run them on normal and at fullscreen).
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