The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    free games?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by stealthsniper96, Jul 20, 2007.

  1. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

    Reputations:
    207
    Messages:
    1,398
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    forgive if there have been threads on this already, but my friend search bar took me to threads with games that i gotta pay for. and i was wondering what kind of free games (americas army??) would run decently on the macbook?
     
    stealthsniper96, Jul 20, 2007
    #1
  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    3,661
    Messages:
    9,249
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Sam, Jul 20, 2007
    #2
  3. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

    Reputations:
    3,047
    Messages:
    8,636
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    206
    i would recommend older games from about 2002 and back
     
    masterchef341, Jul 20, 2007
    #3
  4. xenon2050

    xenon2050 Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    88
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Macs have games? ;) JK, I've played Battle for Wesnoth and WoW on my wife's laptop... But in all reality if you like gaming you'll need windows. You could do bootcamp and run Windows natively... Pick up a cheap copy of XP or something.
     
    xenon2050, Oct 4, 2007
    #4
  5. arikol

    arikol Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    20
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Haven't tried americas army, but for commercial games I enjoyed Call of Duty2.

    Haven't really found many free games that I enjoyed. There was one (more of a short intro) Battlestar galactica type game (non-licensed so it differed enough from the tv show) called Beyond the red line. It uses the freespace engine and is relatively fun, if that's your cup of tea :)
     
    arikol, Oct 4, 2007
    #5
  6. system_159

    system_159 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    363
    Messages:
    794
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Nexuiz is actually pretty fun, and it's free.
     
    system_159, Oct 4, 2007
    #6
  7. taelrak

    taelrak Lost

    Reputations:
    860
    Messages:
    2,979
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Hrm, Freespace 2 SCP is a nice game. I don't know if it would run on the MB though. There are a few stability issues still, but on the whole I found it enjoyable on my MBP.
     
    taelrak, Oct 4, 2007
    #7
  8. arikol

    arikol Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    20
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I was wrong about Beyond the red line. It IS a Battlestar Galactica game (freespace engine) just fan created, so Universal don't get mad....
     
    arikol, Oct 4, 2007
    #8