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Quake 4

slow and freezes the mac book pro up

Written by JW

Jun 1, 2006

Maybe I have a freak mac, but my mac freezes alot with my mac book pro 2.16 gz 2 gig ram; and I have to restart all the time. The controls are delayed so everyone with a pc online kills you. If you wiggle the mouse back and forth you will find your going left when your moving right because of delay. Even in the intel update, maybe it needs another update? But it looks really cool! and I managed to beat the game even with delay.

17 of 33 people found this useful

Quake 4

Pass on this game...UT is better.

Written by CS from Pittsburgh

Sep 22, 2006

YALFPS - (Yet Another Lame First Person Shooter)
Download the demo and try it - yawn...zzzz

Spend your money on something more exciting,
like a large collection of paper clips!

If you must get a shoot-em up FPS,
get Unreal Tournament.

48 of 105 people found this useful

Quake 4

TERRIBLY CHOPPY, not a good game for Macs

Written by NW from Cambridge

Jun 13, 2007

I played this game on my brand new MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, 256MB nVidia Video RAM, with settings at medium resolution and no shadow, and the game was still very choppy. This is what it felt like playing the game: I-fe-lt-lik-e-I-was-wa-tc-hing-a-s-trea-m-i-n-g-v-id-e-o-w-ith-a-l-o-w-s-p-eed-in-t-e-r-ne-t-c-on-n-e-c-ti-o-n.

16 of 45 people found this useful

Quake 4

No sound

Written by RF from BALTIMORE

Nov 5, 2007

I bought this when I bought my IMAC 23 (April 07). It does not recognize the sound card and I get no sound. Graphics look great, but it missing something without sound. I guess I will have to box my MAC up and see a genious. I already tried this once before and didn't have much luck.

105 of 238 people found this useful

Quake 4

dumb "anti-piracy measure"

Written by DC from Toronto

Jul 21, 2008

In order to play this game, you must have the CD in the drive. I called Aspyr to ask why every time I wanted to play, the software asked me to insert the CD, and I was told it is a way to prevent piracy. This is one of the most useless things I have ever heard of. I would not have bought this game had I known I was chained to a CD in order to use it. Come on, would anyone accept having to insert the installer CD every time one needed to use Photoshop, InDesign or Quark Xpress? I am now stuck with a ridiculous game that defeats the purpose of having a "portable" laptop.

57 of 143 people found this useful

Quake 4

slow and laggy

Written by JW from Oakville

Oct 23, 2006

Runs poorly, and very chopy on my iMac G5 2.1 with a gig of ram. look for something else.

62 of 105 people found this useful

Quake 4

great game, sucky graphics and framerate

Written by LG from Davidson

Dec 23, 2006

on my imac G5this game runs perfectly smoothly... when you're looking at a wall. With the slightest action or movement the framerater drops to about .5 fps. DON'T GET THIS GAME FOR IMAC G5. GET IT FOR XBOX 360.

49 of 95 people found this useful

Quake 4

Not as good as Doom III on every level

Written by RG

Mar 16, 2007

I Like this game but the trouble is I had Doom 3 before hand and Doom 3 is better on game play, graphics on Doom 3 are loads better and weapons are loads better to every point Doom 3 is a better game. Doom 3 is tricky with multiplayer over the internet as its own server is not great but other than that buy Doom 3 over Quake 4.
happy gaming

21 of 59 people found this useful

Quake 4

Good, but better buy the windows version if you play multiplayer

Written by CB from austin

May 6, 2006

I got this game a few weeks ago. here's what I have to say.

Pros:
can run on osx. Its smooth enough.

Cons:
Multiplayer: It's hard to find people to play with online. The multiplayer mode is mac only, and the number of mac players out there are very few. When I search for games I never see more than 10 people on.
Graphics: it doesn't support wide screen. Instead, it only supports the windows standard resolutions.

If we can play with windows people online and run full screen at native resolution, this game would be awesome.

122 of 170 people found this useful

Quake 4

its ok

Written by NR from Cartersville

Jun 4, 2006

i got this and it ran decent on my 1.5GHz p book....
the minimal reqs said to use a 1.67Ghz so i guess its to be expected..
online play is iffy but that is not the mac, its alright i guess

18 of 31 people found this useful

Quake 4

Great.....until

Written by EK from Coronado

Oct 23, 2007

I bought this after reading all the great reviews. I am running it on my 2.4MBP. Graphics are amazing, game play is smooth and flawless.........until late in play it lockups for no aparent reason, and the only way to get anything to respond is to do a hard shutdown. I have used every setting possible with my MBP, extremely high, to extremely low. The game doesn't even give any signs of it performing poorly, I will be blasting strogs all over the place with every weapon available and then I will go around a corner where there is nothing but a wall.....and bam...locked up. Does it completely randomly, at different places and after different amounts of game play. Other wise this is a great game. Hopefully this is just a one case incident and not a production problem..........testers!!!!

52 of 114 people found this useful

Quake 4

Cant see the gun action

Written by SS from Saskatoon

Feb 19, 2007

Good game having fun but the gun fire quit, I can not see roket explotions nor bullet actions. Good game but????

27 of 68 people found this useful

Quake 4

Great Single Player, Lacking Multiplayer

Written by NK from Seattle

Jul 5, 2006

The graphics on this game are awesome. Upgrading from a 1Ghz G4 I had no idea how good games have become. The single player is immersive and fun. Although it can be dark at times, it is done well, not trying to scare you like in Doom 3. The voice actors are great and the animation is supurb.
My only problem is with the multiplayer. It is very much in the style of quake 3 or unreal tournement. If you like those games this will not disapoint. However, based on the single player gameplay I was assuming there would be more of a team based large scale realistic battle. Instead it is a very fast pased shooter with short life spans and no vehicles. An open map with the hover tanks and walkers from the single player campaign would have been very cool.

253 of 380 people found this useful

Quake 4

Quake 4 rocks on my Macbook Pro!

Written by PM from Toronto

Aug 24, 2006

Initially I was hesitant to buy Quake 4 for my Macbook Pro not knowing how well the dual-core processors would perform. However after installing the patch program I found the gameplay experience to be awesome! There is a bit of a lag while your progress is being saved, but other than that, I would highly recommend Quake 4 to avid and beginner mac gamers alike. Happy fragging!

218 of 364 people found this useful

Quake 4

Great FPS game!!

Written by AT from Los Angeles

Jun 13, 2006

Really fun game, even though the action can tend to get a bit repetitive. The SP campaign was fun... the multi-palyer, well, it could be better, if we could be able to play against people on PCs, lets face it, there are a lot more PC gamers than on the Mac =(, and thats too bad since MP seems like it could lots of fun.. just can't find people to play with really. The graphics are beautiful, once you get the SMP patch you'll see a large improvement in perfomance if you have a dual processor. The sound is good, but the music is kinda non-existant, but the voice-acting is superb. This is a must have for any Mac gamer, so buy it!

38 of 45 people found this useful

Quake 4

Great game minus a few flaws

Written by MP from Dahlgren

Jul 4, 2006

The game is great, graphics are awesome, game play and store are great as well. The only problem i have is on my 17" 2.16ghz 2G ram Macbook Pro, it crashes at least once a level to where i have to restart the computer. I don't know why it does this but its quite irritating sometimes, other than the crashes the game runs great on the highest graphics settings!

42 of 54 people found this useful

Quake 4

Quake 4 on my duel 1.8 G5 into my Sony HD TV via DVI with Radeon 800xt !!!!

Written by LM from Piermont

Aug 29, 2006

This game runs great on my duel 1.8 g5 tower and I have it going into my Sony 50 inch HD TV using my Radeon 800xt video card dvi out into the dvi of the tv. The game with the latest update and Tiger provides HD tv resolutions of 1080i and 720p. Playing online has never been easier even with a wireless setup via airport which I could never get to work with unreal tournament. The surround sound has yet to work for me but I have fake surround via the digital audio out of the mac into my surround amp. It is the best fragging experience yet!!!!!!!!

93 of 160 people found this useful

Quake 4

Quake 4 great gameplay

Written by RV

Apr 24, 2006

While Doom 3 is virtualy not playable on my Powermac dual 1.8G, this game, based on the same engine, really rocks!
Only downside is the realatively long loading times.
Of course, when you put the optiones to the higher levels, it starts to get slow aswell but you get the feeling that the people of ID software also wanted to keep the people on 'older' systems playing.

25 of 30 people found this useful