Mac Gaming

 

As some of you may know I own a imac, I primarily use it for video and photo editing for uni where I use specialist programs. Although I use my mac mostly media I use it occasionally for gaming, I started with games from the humble indie bundle, as almost all these games work with mac. Games such as braid and penumbra work very well and look great on the imac's high res screen, I really enjoyed penumbra and decided to purchase the 2 sequel's, the penumbra games are first person adventure games so no skill is involves just puzzle solving.

More recently I downloaded TF2 for my mac, the main reason was to see how it ran compared to my aging PC that was getting around 10fps when there was any kind of action. TF2 on my mac run reasonably well with me getting around 30fps in heavy action and about 60fps out of action.
 
The issue I have with playing TF2 on my mac is the fact that I have only the standard keyboard and and the dreaded magic mouse, the the mouse is definitely not built with gaming in mind with the mouse being one large surface that detects both both mouse click and stroll wheel, technically impressive but very hard to game with.

In short mac is getting more and more games released for it and is more than capable of handling them although at the moment PC's and consoles are better platforms for gaming.