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Colin McRae Rally

June 3rd, 2010 by admin

300 stages of competition
20 event classes
Multiple challenges, supercups and championships
Variety of car classes
Online multiplayer up to 8 people

Product Description
Colin McRae Rally Mac is the most complete and rewarding racing experience for the Macintosh. Choose from a wide assortment of cars and prepare to be pummelled through a staggering 300+ race tracks featuring unparalleled detail and visual splendour. Incredible detail: An individual damage model for each car - right down to paintwork scratches and a dazed visual effect as you recover from a crash! Panels and components are deformable and can be removed in a realisti... More >>

Colin McRae Rally

5 Responses

K. Morrow writes:
June 3rd, 20107:47 pmat

Thought I would finally get a decent rally game on the Mac and was totally disappointed. While everything looks good the steering is absolutely unusable. The dead zone just does not set correctly so you have to throw the wheel back and forth to get any sort of response. This surprises me since the Ford Racing works so well.
I see from other reviews and chat forums that this is a common “feature”. Emailed support twice with no response.
Definitely would not recommend this until a patch is released. Then I am sure things will be as promised.
Rating: 1 / 5
fargo writes:
June 3rd, 20108:33 pmat

Beware! You cannot play this game on many (all?) MacBooks, MacMinis, and as I found out the hard way, on my iMac. Before you buy it, check your “graphics/displays” info in “about this Mac. ” If you have the Intel GMA 950 chipset model, you won’t be able to play the game. Very disappointing on Christmas day to watch my rally racing fans install it and be told: “You can’t play this game on this computer. ” Amazon should include a warning about this probem in the specs, and hopefully will in the future. Amazon should also include a “0″ in its rating system for purchases a customer simply can’t rate.
Rating: 1 / 5
Gary C. Blessing Jr. writes:
June 3rd, 20109:25 pmat

I just wanted to point the finger and laugh at the reviewer below. It’s a bit much to expect an integrated graphics solution to play 3D games. I am quite impressed this company has opted to make this game PowerPC compatible. Most of the new Mac games coming out are emulated in some fashion, and not a true port (EA I’m looking at you!).

Now I’m curious, I have a Sony Vaio CR220E, which uses the same processor and chipset as the last revision of the MacBook, and it plays the game just fine (CMR 2005, for windows). I wager that a current MacBook would play this game just fine. The replacement for the GMA965 includes the intel X3100 graphics card (what the vaio and macbook has). But this is a very good integrated graphics card, aimed at making integrated graphics less of a joke (and providing full DirectX 10 support for Win Vista).

To me it’s exciting that they’re even trying to get games on Mac. For so long they were just the butt of jokes amongst my PC enthusiast friends (I made fun of them too). And obviously it’s funny to see this title out 3 years late, considering it’s successor DiRT has been out for months. But this is exciting because for quite a while Macs have been shipping with very decent hardware, and no way to show its ability.
Rating: 4 / 5
P. Brooks writes:
June 3rd, 201011:07 pmat

The game overall is very good, crisp graphics and gameplay is very nice. The only problem I had with it is that career mode gets a little tedious but other than that I think the game is a must if you’re looking for a good game for your mac.
Rating: 4 / 5
Timothy Esse writes:
June 4th, 201012:55 amat

This is a pretty fun driving game.
Good graphics. Cars and conditions all vary.
Well worth buying.
Rating: 4 / 5