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In recent months Mac gaming has taken a turn for the better with developers offering big name titles ported to the Mac. Feral Interactive, known for porting Tomb Raider Anniversary and Fable, provides rally-racing enthusiasts with the frantic drift-fest that is Colin McRae Rally Mac.
Colin McRae Rally Mac is a game based around the challenging sport of Rally racing. The main object in Rally racing is to complete stages under time trial conditions with the fastest overall time winning the Stage or Rally.
This game features over 30 cars and many famous scenic spots from the sport. While the game is a port of Colin McRae Rally 2005 on the PC, the game holds up well to age, with its rapid frame rate, and solid game mechanics. Despite Colin's comparably modest system requirements, which allows play on high-end PowerBook G4 or PowerMac G5 machines, it does not support the Intel integrated graphics chipsets, leaving Mac Mini and MacBook gamers out in the cold.
The game runs exceedingly well on my 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, easily reaching past a constant 40 to 60 frames per second. From what I have seen, I think Colin scales well on less powerful gaming rigs.
The Play Colin has a very slick duo-tone menu screen, offering a choice between a number of different tracks, located in Germany, the UK, Japan, the US, Sweden, Greece, Spain, Finland, and Australia. You can choose from several cars, including the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII, Austin Mini Cooper, or Volkswagen Beetle RSi. You can change the car performance to suit a particular driving style, through tweaking the ride height, spring density, roll bar durability, and more. Once you choose from a variety of career, single play, or online gaming options, as well as a car and track, play begins. For those unfamiliar with rally style racing, the heats are done one racer at a time, due to the dangerous driving conditions and supreme concentration required by both a driver and navigator. As such, it is not as approachable as a common arcade-style racer, and even requires a different set of skills than those found in the more complex simulation games.
Colin McCrae Rally Mac Set Up Screen Of the pair, you assume the role of the driver, while the navigator gives jargoned directions, in the place of a standard miniature map found in most racing games. The trick to Colin McCrae Rally Mac is understanding the directions. For example, a 'six left, and six right over crest, 30 long tight left' indicates you should go in sixth gear or as fast as possible while turning a slight left, then right as you drive over a hill, and that after 30 meters, there is a gradual left turn that suddenly steepens. The game displays a visual representation of the navigator's directions as a road sign, but takes some time to perfect.
After a while, it becomes more instinctive than mentally intensive. Players do get an overview map at the beginning of the race, with track conditions, but must rely on directions once inside the car.
On The Road and Navigation As I mentioned, Colin is not a new game. While this usually means a dated look and feel, when you consider advancements in the audio-visual field, physics emulation, and other areas, Colin retains a polished appearance and play style that lasts. The frame rate is smooth - even with all the graphic options enabled - and there is a lot of attention to detail, with spectators, weather, and excellent surroundings, not to mention well modeled cars that use a rather realistic damage engine. Visually Entertaining The cars have hanging bumpers, broken windows, and shattered lights as they hit trees, bridges, fences, or other obstacles, which prevents players from hugging the sides of the road to get through races. Some of the areas include spontaneous forests or a bridge across a small creek, which the player must expertly navigate, lest they lose time or render their car useless.
Colin's scenery is very clean and impressive, and includes some interesting visual effects. For example, when a driver slams into an obstacle at a certain velocity, their vision blurs, making it a little trickier to navigate. These elements train the player to better operate the vehicle to achieve as efficient a time as possible. Hazards On the Road I was able to efficiently control my favorite car, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII, with either the keyboard or the Mad Catz game controller. Keyboard control is both responsive and subtle, without being touchy or lacking.
Audio The game's audio repertoire is rather simple, because the most common sounds are cheering, engine revving, gear shifting noises, and the cryptic instructions from the navigator. Since Colin McRae Rally Mac is ideally for car enthusiasts, this is an excellent approach, since concentration is key. Online Play For those too impatient to play through the game, or who wish to play with a more experienced friend online, Colin allows players to unlock various cheats, such as access to the limited edition cars or track variations. Once everything is unlocked, and all of the single player achievements are complete, the online play is an attractive feature.
If players don't personally know any other Colin aficionados, they can connect with others around the world through Gameranger. Rather than force players to sit through up to eight other players' heats before competing, Colin puts a spin on the single-car concept and allow other players to compete simultaneously as ghost cars. Everyone is immune to collisions, but can still impact the environment.
Cars represented in this manner are not visually distracting, so you can concentrate on the course. Casual gamers may shy away from Colin, due to its rather steep learning curve and unique racing concepts, but I feel is still worth a look for everyone.
Dedication to learning the basics provides you with an instinctive predictability of course directions, and play becomes fluid after this point. Rally enthusiasts need to look no further than Colin McRae Rally Mac, where you will find a solid, beautiful game with many play options. Edited by Ilene Hoffman, Reviews Editor. Cirrus creates Lightning-headphone dev kit Apple supplier Cirrus Logic has introduced a MFi-compliant new development kit for companies interested in using Cirrus' chips to create Lightning-based headphones, which - regardless of whether rumors about Apple dropping the analog headphone jack in its iPhone this fall - can offer advantages to music-loving iOS device users.
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Today we’ve gone flat out for #throwbackthursday today with the release of Colin McRae Rally, featuring classic retro rally gameplay, made all nice and shiny. This latest version of Colin McRae Rally is based on PlayStation One classic Colin McRae 2.0. It follows the release of Colin McRae Rally on the App Store last year, which became the number one rally game in many countries around the world, and calls from you guys to bring that classic Colingameplay back to more platforms. That process started with a release on Android and Blackberry earlier this year, and today we launch on! This version features handling and physics inspired by Colin McRae Rally 2.0 and is upgraded with re-mastered audio and definitively fancier 1080p graphics. You’ll find yourself tackling 30 classic rally stages with a combined distance of over 130km in four legendary cars: the Ford Focus, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI, Lancia Stratos and the Subaru Impreza.
Colin Mcrae Rally For Mac
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Colin McRae game without co-driver Nicky Grist at your side, and he’s on hand to read out the pace notes as you hurtle through the Australian outback, climb the mountains of Greece and barrel through the tight and twisty tarmac roads of Corsica. Out now, you can enjoy all the retro thrills of the original Colin McRae games on today’s machines for less than the price of a couple of pints, and racing is particularly great when using the d-pad, as it would have been played on the PlayStation back in the day. It’s pretty cheap, pretty fun and it really captures that original experience. We hope you enjoy it whether you were around for the first time and fancy a bit of nostalgic rally action or are curious to see where our DiRT games started out. Very nice Codies, although far from perfect.
Wish this was on the EGO engine not Unity, the control binding is a bit fiddly to get right, and the controls themselves (G27) are a bit wonky while driving. The menus are also terribly slow to navigate, having to wait for the whole animation to finish before it will register your next input. Finally being able to get driving properly, i noticed the cars bog down very easily, and changing gears seem to act in a strange and unrealistic manner. Nevertheless, its a fun little game for the price, if a little unrefined.
However, i plead everyone to buy this, to encourage Codie's to put all non-Steam titles on to Steam (or back on in some cases). That means the Toca games, and the other CMR games, aswell as DiRT 1+2! I spent some time last night playing this, and I really liked the driving itself. It was wonderful to have a go at this game again. Everything else was negative in my opinion. The content is really stripped down, and the little content there is, is locked until you complete certain championships.
So for me, eventually this re-release of CMR 2 is a disappointment. As the little content doesn't justify getting the game for me. I mean, why not take the full original game, make it compatible with modern hardware (graphics card, ram, CPU, controllers) and compatible with Windows 7 and 8.
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That in itself, even without any graphical improvements, would have been preferable to this stipped down release. And something I'd gladly spend some money on.Disclaimer: my comments are only my own musings, not 'stating opinions as facts' or 's peaking for others.' #NeverPreOrder. It's outrageous that consumers have to BEG game companies to make games that reliably function properly. Consumers do NOT buy video games to waste their recreational time doing the unpaid work of paid professional testers. It's nonsense to imply game companies have no obligation to deliver games of consistently reliable functional quality just because 'it's not easy & nothing is perfect & you can't please everybody.' Company decision-makers listen to consumer spending, not consumer feedback; they don't care if it works properly as long as it SELLS, and every purchase is a vote of approval that helps fund more of the same. Money talks louder than requests & complaints. Experimental lifetime evaluation for mac.
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