1: Sims 2, The
Take The Sims to the next level in Sims 2 for Mac. With the introduction of genetics in The Sims 2 for Mac, you can control your Sims over a lifetime and pass their Sims' DNA down from one generation to the next. The Sims 2 sims evolve by genetically passing on physical and personality traits. Create and play your own virtual sitcom by choosing one of five different aspirations - Popularity, Fortune, Family, Knowledge, and Romance. These aspirations in life cause your Sims to have wants and fears. Will you give them a long successful existence or leave their life in shambles?
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2: Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront lets you fight the greatest battles in the Star Wars Universe any way you want to. Star Wars Battlefront is an action/shooter game. Players can select one of a number of different soldier types, jump into any vehicle, man any turret on the battlefront and conquer the Star Wars galaxy planet-by-planet online or offline in a variety of single player modes. Star Wars Battlefront has single player modes which includes the story-based 'Historical Campaigns' mode that lets gamers experience all of the epic battles from Episodes I-VI, fighting from the perspective of each of the four factions within the game.
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3: X-Plane 8
X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. For loads more detail on this game click the title link above to go to the full product description.
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4: Tropico 2 Pirate Cove
Tropico 2 Pirate Cove for Mac allows you to rule a secret pirate island, full of despicable 17th century Sea Dogs! Fuel your economy by plundering wealthy merchant ships and taking prisoners back to the island as captive workers. Keep your scurvy buccaneers satisfied with rowdy gambling, jolly feasting, and barrels of rum! World powers fear you, brigands respect you, captives obey your every command, and don't forget about the wenching!
5: Rise of Nations Gold Edition
Historical fast-paced, real-time strategy game of epic scale. It allows city creation and infrastructure improvement. Win through military might using slingshots to cannons to stealth bombers, or corner the market on key commodities e.g. the wheel and deal with a wide variety of nations. Includes Thrones and Patriots expansion pack. Nominated in the Editors' Choice: Entertainment Category of the 2005 MacWorld Awards
6: Doom 3
In Doom 3 for Mac a massive demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Mars Research Facility. As one of only a few survivors, you face an epic clash against pure evil amidst the horror and chaos. Doom 3 is the most frightening and gripping 3D gaming experience.
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7: Railroad Tycoon 3
Latest incarnation of the magnificent loco sim! More than 55 different locomotives, 180 different buildings and 40 cargo types. Multiplayer options. Play against a backdrop of cut-throat financial competition or in sandbox mode and focus just on the trains! Check out version 2 if you have an older Mac. Read online preview
8: Sim City 4
One of the all-time great strategy games, it is the ultimate development of the original Sim City into the 21st century with this comprehensive update. Significantly improved graphics complement new terraforming and city management tools, plus the ability to import characters from The Sims to comment on your city!
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9: Sims Party Pack, The
Fantastic value compilation of The Sims, the first expansion set, The Sims Livin Large , Sims House Party and Sims Hot Date. For Macintosh only. Control the working and love lives and the homes of your very own sims. Warning this is very addictive!
10: Battlefield 1942 Deluxe
Battlefield 1942 puts players at the heart of World War II combat, allowing them to choose from 16 famous battle sites, including Omaha Beach, Stalingrad and Wake Island, from the four main theatres of World War II including the Pacific, Eastern and Western Europe and Northern Africa.
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11: Fallout 2
Fallout 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. Fallout 2 is set approximately 80 years since your ancestor, the 'Vault Dweller' trod across the wastelands. Improved combat AI for friends and foes alike. Bigger, smarter, nastier enemies - more mutants, super-mutants, droids and ghouls who may join the adventure.
12: Lord of the Rings Return of the King
2004 MacUser Game of the Year. Eight playable and secret characters including Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Sam & Frodo. Destroy the Ring! Explore the Paths of the Dead, defend Minas Tirith, and battle Sauron's forces at the Pelennor Fields before final confrontations at the Black Gate and the Crack of Doom.
13: Command and Conquer Zero Hour
Add-on for the real-time strategy game Command and Conquer Generals. With new units, structures, and upgrades, as well as the all-new Generals Challenge Mode, Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour delivers all the firepower players need in the quest to become the ultimate modern warfare General.
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14: Medal of Honor Allied Assault WarChest
Compilation of Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Expansion and Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Expansion Sets. Includes more than 50 single player scenarios, 29 multiplayer levels and 48 authentic WWII weapons. You should click on the product title to check technical requirements before ordering as this compilation, unlike the individual games, is Mac OS X only. This is a DVDROM; single games (available separately) are on CDROM.
15: Call of Duty United Offensive
Expansion pack for Call of Duty. Includes 13 new single-player missions and 11 new multi-player maps. There's also support for vehicles and new multiplayer modes plus new weapons, characters and a collection of single-player puzzles. Read online preview | Download Patch
16: Extreme Fun
This incredibly cool compilation includes 5 of your all time favourite Mac games! It includes Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and it's explosive expansion pack Clone Campaigns. Also included, the classic Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, 4 x 4 Evolution 2 for some off-road racing, and iPuppet where you can enjoy card games such as Hearts, Spades, Euchre and much more!
17: Star Trek Elite Force 2
Sequel to Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, now set in the Star Trek Next Generation universe rather than the Voyager one used in the first game. Powered by the Quake 3 engine.
18: X-Plane 8
X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. For loads more detail on this game click the title link above to go to the full product description.
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19: Close Combat First to Fight
Authentic, team-based 1st person shooter set in a modern mid-eastern urban battleground where players lead a 4-man Marine fireteam through the perils of modern urban combat. Publisher created Close Combat First to Fight as a training simulation for use by the U S Marine Corps!
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20: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. As the last hope of the Jedi, you must lead a band of freedom fighters in an epic struggle to save the galaxy. Read online review | Download a demo
21: No One Lives Forever Game of the Year Edition
Spy themed first person shooter, critically acclaimed on other platforms. Take deadly arch enemies with an impressive arsenal of weapons and spy gadgetry. 15 missions over 60 levels.
22: Championship Manager 4
World's top football management game at budget price. Enhanced game engine. For the first time, it includes 2D graphics engine so you can see your tactics in action.
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23: Championship Manager 00/01
Updated for 00/01 season. Includes downloadable editor, 24 leagues, 50,000 players and coaches, more tactics, player feedback, press interviews. MacFormat score 9/10.
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24: Space Colony
Save the Colony! Your staff is brawling, the Harvester Robot is chain sawing its way through the oxygen supply and small furry aliens have taken over the disco. This is home!
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25: Tropico
Graphically stunning strategy game flavoured with Latin American political intrigue. Uses the excellent Railroad Tycoon II, 3rd person, 45 degree rotated perspective landscape engine. With so many game options, the replayability value is tremendous; no two games will be alike. Over 85 unique structures. Keep the populace, the capitalists, the church, the military, the Americans and the Russians happy... oh and stay alive! Also part of the Big Red Box (v2) compilation.
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26: Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb
Players take on the role of Indiana Jones in his latest adventure (Third Person). It's 1935 and this time you must prevent a powerful Chinese artifact from falling into evil hands. This globe-spanning adventure pits you against evil Nazis and the Asian underworld with a mysterious and alluring partner, Mei Ying.
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27: Tron 2.0
20 years ago, an artificial intelligence known as the Master Control Program (MCP) threatened to take over an unsuspecting world. Only Kevin Flynn, a computer genius, stood between the MCP and rest of humanity. Flynn was digitized into a parallel universe inside the computer, where the MCP pitted programs against each other in gladiatorial combat on the arena known as the Game Grid.
28: Medal of Honor Allied Assault Deluxe
Value for money double pack. Includes the original Allied Assault game and Spearhead Expansion pack on DVD-ROM.
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29: Icewind Dale
In the northernmost reaches of the 'Forgotten Realms' lies the frozen region known as Icewind Dale. Journey deep into the Spine of the World mountains, a harsh and unforgiving territory teeming with fearsome and merciless beasts. There you must confront an ancient evil that threatens to unleash an unspeakable horror upon the face of Faerun.
30: Celtic Kings - Rage of War
Celtic Kings is a real time game that blends strategy, role-playing and adventure elements. There are two modes; adventure or strategic. Launch large-scale military campaigns against your foes to bring them to their knees in traditional RTS gameplay. In adventure mode, you control a party of heroes and explore the world as the struggle between Caesar and the Gaul chieftain Vercingetorix evolves.
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