Games 4 U
Today's been a pretty good day to be a Mac gamer. Aspyr announced Zoo Tycoon, and MacSoft announced Tropico: Mucho Macho edition. I'm totally stoked about both of these. (ObDisclosure: Mark Krenek of Westlake did the Zoo Tycoon port, so I'm not without bias there.)
This style of game is perhaps my favorite: strategy sim games that have a lot of meat to them, but aren't so complex that you get lost in the details. I've long wished for the Tropico expansion. I loved Railroad Tycoon 2, also by PopTop. I hope that with this version, PopTop has fixed a lot of the performance and stability problems that plagued the initial Tropico Mac release. In their defense, Tropico was one of the first OSX-native games, and we all know that 10.0 was not a very solid release, as it required a lot of hacks to get stuff, including games, working properly. At $20, it's a steal. (I sound like a pimping tool, but whatever.)
Now if only we had more World War II first-person shooters for the Mac...there's a genre that's been neglected!
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You know, Brad, not a day goes by when I don't ask myself "WHEN will SOMEONE make a military-style first person shooter that allows you to kill either terrorists or nazis???" And it's gotta be playable online as well, that's the other thing. Maybe someone could make one with the Quake III engine. Do they license that?
Posted by: Corey | May 20, 2003 11:13 PM