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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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Gaurav Patel

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).

January 10 2008 at 2:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
German.

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.

January 05 2008 at 6:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff

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.

January 03 2008 at 9:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

Open Arena. I run it on my Core Solo macbook and it runs perfectly. No lagging. At all. It's crashed once

January 03 2008 at 2:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ben

My vote's in for BZFlag...great multiplayer game.

January 02 2008 at 11:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
krye

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)

January 02 2008 at 9:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aspro

The only game I play on my Macbook is Europa Universalis III. Runs a treat and is a extremely solid strategy game.

January 02 2008 at 3:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bassie

I have to second boatofcar. Warcraft III is and runs great on a MacBook.

January 02 2008 at 2:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
boatofcar

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.

January 02 2008 at 1:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric

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 ).

January 01 2008 at 10:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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