Sep 14
EA games for the Mac: beware
I have two of the new releases for the Mac. And let me add only for the uber-scale Macs as the ole’ iMac and Macbooks won’t run them. I have Need for Speed Carbon and Battlefield 2142; ordered them the day they went on sale. I needn’t have bothered. They both are serious let-downs.
First of NFS: Carbon is unstable and has the habit of randomly crashing during races. This is especially annoying if you are in the lead or accomplishing something important. It got so bad that I had to reinstall the whole game. Not how you want to spend your time.
Then we come to Battlefield which has a learning curve which is vertical. The game has no tutorial and even at the bots easiest setting is too damn hard. To be playing a game for 15 minutes and being on the winning side but get no points is pretty lame. This game only suits FPS players who are very patient and don’t mind spending a lot of time getting no where.
I have not heard any reports on CoCIII for the Mac yet. I do hope its a better game that either of the ones above. If you are interested in the EA games for Mac I would wait a while for the early adopters to work out the kinks. EA games always used to be full of bugs when they were on Macs all those years ago. It seems old habits die hard.
