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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. Re:OS X 10.3.6 by adzoox · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually it's been final seeded to developers (about a week ago) - it is inevitable that it will be out before February.

    Aspyr is saying this because Apple is completely rewriting the video drivers in this next point release.

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  2. Re:I'm gonna go out on a limb here... by grag · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the system requirements are preliminary. We usually guess higher, and then readjust the requirements the closer we get to Final Candidate. I believe this happened to RTCW for Mac, but I would have to ask someone who was the project lead for RTCW for Mac.

    This is done to prevent customers making a preorder for the game, only to find out that the requirements have been raised at the last minute.