Mac Gaming

I’m always surprised, listening to gaming podcasts, how little love is shown to GameTap. For a monthly ($10 USD) or yearly ($60) fee, GameTap lets you play all of the games in its library, ranging from 80s & 90s arcade and console hits to PC games released within the last year. GameTap currently offers over a thousand games from almost every genre, from publishers such as Sega, Ubisoft, THQ, Eidos, Dreamcatcher — and the list goes on. While there are some regional restrictions (some games can’t be played if you’re outside of the US) and you don’t own the games, GameTap is a really great way to try games you might otherwise have passed over. For example: Titan Quest.

Titan Quest is an Action RPG similar (I’ve read) to the Diablo games but set in ancient Greece — a Greece brimming with mythical beasts of every imaginable kind, all hostile and ready to introduce themselves to the end of your spear or the blade of your sword. There’s not a lot of strategy to the game (from what I’ve played), but if you like loot — and lots of it — this game has it in spades. Below are the settings I’m using to run Titan Quest on my iMac.

My Settings

The Verdict

FRAPS was displaying 30-45fps most of the time, though you notice lower frame rates than that when entering/exiting caves or when there are a lot of light effects on the screen. Overall, though the game runs well, and if you’re new to the genre, Titan Quest is definitely worth checking out.

Metacritic.com User Score

8.5/10