Aspyr Ships Call of Duty 2 for Macs

May 26, 2006 By Geoff Duncan

Aspyr Ships Call of Duty 2 for Macs

Aspyr has shipped Activision's World War II action game Call of Duty 2 for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs.

Mac gamers now have another reason to spend more time at the screen: Aspyr has shipped Activision‘s Call of Duty 2 for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macintosh systems.

Call of Duty 2 is an in-the-action shooter game based in World War II and places players in the role of typical soldiers in the conflicts most epic European theater battles. Call of Duty 2 adds more tanks, troops, onscreen explosions, and a much wider scope with bigger battles and a wider range of environments. And, of course, it wouldn’t be an action game without graphics improvements: Aspyr says its new COD2 engine offers stunning visuals and smoother gameplay than ever before. The game also includes a new battle chatter system, so members of your squad can alert you to changing battle conditions, and COD2 supports multiplayer online gaming.

Call of Duty 2 requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or later on a Mac with at least 512 MB of RAM, either a G5 or Intel processor running at 2 GHz or faster, and at least 64 MB of video memory on selected ATI and Nvidia graphics cards. The game is rated T for “Teen” by the ESRB; prices for the Mac version of COD2 should be around $50.

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Karl Viklund at 2:32am 28th May 2006 Yea. The thing is just that Call of Duty 2 have been out for PC a few months now and it's up in version 1.2 or higher I think. When it comes to gaming performance I think Windows is the choice right now but we might see the Mac becoming more gaming friendly now when it got some more Horse-power. Those Core-Duos are simply amazing. Aspyr have ported alot of games to Mac and they have been doing a great job so far.
Benji at 8:01pm 27th May 2006 I think the OS makes more of a difference than the CPU type when porting games. I could be wrong though. I am glad to see the popular games continue to hit the Mac.
Karl Viklund at 3:14pm 27th May 2006 Very nice. But it's kinda late. Lets hope the MAC gets more games faster now when they are running on Intel which makes games easier to port, I presume. They will be able to port more advanced games though now when the Mac actually got some more power under the hood. Dual Core, not many PCs to date got that kind of a processor. MACs have always been fast out with new technology.