As good (and real) as it gets
Review of Colin McRae Rally (Mac) by
blackpuddinonnabike
Advantages: The look; the gameplay; the cars
Disadvantages: Solo driving; needs a gamepad
...Colin McRae Rally has ruled the roost for so many years now, evolving from its early Playstation days into a byword for car race gaming. The latest evolution has now hit the Mac, and proves that the game can cross over platforms and continue to impress with its look, gameplay and sheer 'just one more go' stickability.
The basic background is this. You drive a car, very fast, against a clock, to try and beat the times of your opponents. Sounds simple, and many many other racing games run on the same basic premise. Where CM differs is that every little part of the package seems to add up.
The first thing you see is the menu, which makes it easy to skip through options forwards and backwards. You can choose the type of game you want, set the preferences for the game, set up controllers. The usual stuff you see really, but made...
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A great game at last for the Apple Mac.
Review of Age of Empires II: Gold Edition (Mac) by
scottishkat
Advantages: Great for using the mind!!!
Disadvantages: you tend to get caught up in the game.
...The Age Of Empires II Edition is a great game published by Macsoft for the Apple Macintosh. And if you are like me find it hard to find any games that are Mac compatable and this is truely a great game we bought ours at Currys for £39.99 but you are able to get it now for as little as £32.95 on certain web sites but am sure they are cheapier the more you surf the net.
I came across this game first on the playstaion 2 and found myself sitting for hours building my own village, Making building's, Armys, Castles, Land workers,Dock yard's even down to building a church with monks. That were able to colllect these relics( that would be planted somewhere on the map) and all depending on how many you were able to collect the speed of your gold would go up.
At the very begining of the game you were given five workers that could either cut...
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