With the year quickly coming to an end, Apple has released the list their favorite games and apps on the Mac App Store for 2011. The Mac App Store has blown up since its launch earlier this year and has made it easier than ever to purchase games and apps for Apple devices.
Among the games featured in the Best of Mac App Store 2011, Aspyr Media, Inc. and Feral Interactive led the pack with an array of strategy, puzzler and first-person shooter titles including the Mac App Game of the Year 2011 going to Aspyr Media’s empire-conquring Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Campaign Edition!
Aspyr Media is also the proud publisher of other games that made the list:
Call of Duty 4—Get your best killing streak while experiencing intense cinematic scenes of this well-loved game.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic—Play as your favorite Star Wars character as you lead a gang of rebel freedom fighters to save the galaxy from the dark side.
The Secret of Monkey Island—Re-mastered with new music and hand-drawn animations, this classic puzzle game takes you through the Caribbean to find the secrets of Monkey Island.
Not to go under the radar, Feral Interactive ranked an impressive number of titles on the Best of Mac App Store 2011 list, including the mutant-battling Bioshock, the role-playing shooter Borderlands, the off-road racing Colin McRae: Dirt 2 and the wizardly LEGO Harry Potter.
As the days barrel on into the New Year, Mac App Store is an easy way to finish your holiday shopping. With a wide selection of games, this year’s Best Mac App list is sure to have something for everyone. Head on over to the Mac App Store and check out the favorites today!
Just a quick note that Aspyr has dropped the price of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mac) to only $39.99. This price should be good across all outlets, including the GameAgent Store and the Mac App Store.
The wicked chill of a sub-zero Russian winter feels like it’s biting my bones, despite the heavy long coat I’m wearing. I arrived early in Stalingrad, one of the settings found in Call of Duty 2, so I could thumb through the (more…)
On one end of the timeline, the Caucasus Mountains saw Zeus chain Prometheus to a rock as punishment for giving fire to man. On the other end, some of these mountains near Sochi, Russia will host part of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Today, however, I bear witness to a (more…)
Call of Duty 2 is the definitive World War II shooter. It basically sets the bar for that particular genre. The single player campaigns are a full game experience that give you a really (more…)
Call of Duty 2 is one of the best team-based multiplayer games that I have played. It was quite evident during multiplayer games that everyone playing had a ton of comradery for each other. The cheering and whooping that went through each round could be (more…)
Eric Glocker and I have come together to bring you a special on depictions of the military at war. Eric is a US Marine who has recently returned to civilian life. He is a sometimes-college student and full time study-at-home warrior monk. He has two personal blogs, one on cooking, eating and drinking, and another that acts as a catch-all but includes a lot about video games.
Game footage from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
I’m not going to make any bones about it, I love first person shooters, especially historical FPSes. Of the last generation or so of modern “realistic FPS” games, my favorite has easily been Call of Duty: World at War, not just because it features Marines (though I confess to an intense bias), but because it was one of the first World War II games to shift its focus away from the western European front!
I have a lot of respect for the men who landed at the beaches of Normandy, who later drove all the way to Berlin. However, there are a plethora of stories game companies can explore even if they limit themselves to the Second World War. Why is Normandy their exclusive focus?? Think about the battles and content of WWII: you can switch to the Eastern Front, or jump down to the Mediterranean for the invasion of Italy, or the battles in the Sahara between the British and Irwin Rommel’s Africa Corps. Hell, if you do the Sahara, you can relive the first battles of the British Special Air Service, which were intense enough to sound like an action movie. I would think this authentic militaristic history would inspire game companies more than they do. (more…)
It’s always interesting for me to judge a first person shooter (FPS) based on its single player (SP) merits. Quite often, I feel doing so is a bad idea; I seem to find that FPS games don’t stand up as well in the single player mode, and I have to derive fun from them through multiplayer. I believe this is due to the fact that most FPS games are very similar to each other, especially in the “war” type games, specifically in the department of mechanics. Despite this, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare still managed to blow me away.
Not to knock on the multiplayer in the game, but it has never really been for me. I realize that CoD4’s multiplayer has been praised quite a bit for being a deep and rewarding experience, but I was never able to get into it as I have in other FPS games. Generally this is quite a bad omen due to my aforementioned general dislike of single player FPS experiences. On a related note, I think Halo is an excellent example of my feelings toward FPS: A very bland single player experience of trotting through boring corridors killing predictable and all-too-similar AI characters, yet being an awesome and tightly built multiplayer experience that’s especially a blast to play with friends. This makes my experiences with CoD4 all the more intriguing, due to it being a reversal of my usual experiences in the genre.
We just wanted to give a quick heads up that classic WWII shooter Call of Duty 2 has just been released on the Mac App Store.
The sequel to Call of Duty, the 2003 Game of the Year and winner of more than 80 awards, Call of Duty 2 offers more immense, more intense, more realistic battles than ever before, thanks to the stunning [2006] visuals of the Call of Duty 2 engine. Call of Duty 2 provides an amazing experience with all-new enhancements, ranging from stunningly realistic graphics to seamless gameplay, a new engine, groundbreaking AI, and choice-based innovations that allow players to experience the closest thing they’ll ever get to real warfare. Beautifully rendered snow, rain, fog and smoke, combined with dynamic lighting and shadows, make this the most intense WWII first person action title yet.
Click here to purchase the game now, or you can check out a Macworld review of the title here.
With the year quickly coming to an end, Apple has released the list their favorite games and apps on the Mac App Store for 2011. The Mac App Store has blown up since its launch earlier this year and has made it easier than ever to purchase games and apps for Apple devices.
Not to go under the radar, Feral Interactive ranked an impressive number of titles on the Best of Mac App Store 2011 list, including the mutant-battling Bioshock, the role-playing shooter Borderlands, the off-road racing Colin McRae: Dirt 2 and the wizardly LEGO Harry Potter.
