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Doom 3 Announced for Mac

Posted by samzenpus on from the shooting-apples dept.

thelemmings writes "Aspyr today announced that it will (finally) publish Doom 3 for the Macintosh. The game is scheduled for release Q1 2005 and the system requirements indicate that a G5 processor will be required, which seems quite surprising as it will leave iBooks and Powerbooks owners on the side of the road. Too bad iD Software didn't release a free OSX client like they previously did for linux version of the game."

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  1. BS by xnot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Frankly, I'm pissed about this. id made a HUGE deal out of the fact that you would not need the latest hardware on the PC side to run D3 acceptably. Reviews came out, and PC people marveled over the fact that id was true to their word. D3 plays pretty well on most PCs with decent processors and graphics cards.

    Now that the mac version comes out, and we all suddenly need a G5 to play it. That's a bunch of crap. Either ID screwed up the mac version, or what we've cringed over so long is finally comming to pass: top gaming companies are abandoning their resources for the mac. When Quake 3 and Warcraft 3 came out of the mac, I thought things MIGHT turn around. But if you need a G5 for the D3 mac version, it's hardly going to sell at all.

    This is not good news. Oh well. Time to buy a cheap PC for games. I'm sick of mac ports working at half the speed of the PC version.