Macgamefiles.com is hosting a Mac demo of Pixar’s latest blockbuster “Cars.”
Driven to succeed, Lightning McQueen the hotshot rookie race-car is headed across country to take on the Piston Cup Championship. But along the way, McQueen gets sidetracked in the sleepy town of Radiator Springs—where he gets to know some of the most offbeat characters around. And where they help him realize there are more important things than trophies and fame.
So fasten your seat belt and get ready for wildly fast and funny adventures with all your favorite characters from the Disney/Pixar blockbuster “Cars.”
• Burn rubber in more than 30 races and mini-games
• Explore the open world of Radiator Springs
• Speed to the finish line with more than 10 playable characters
• Make your friends eat your dust in multiplayer mode
• Enjoy the voices of Paul Newman, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, Larry the Cable Guy and more
Requirements:
• Mac OS X v10.3 or later
• 1.2GHz G4 or higher processor
• 256MB RAM
• 500MB free hard-disk space
• 32MB VRAM
• NVidia Gforce2 or ATI 7500 or higher
• 8x CD-ROM drive
Editor’s Note: This demo did not run on an Intel Mac when tested.
More info and download link here.
A PowerPC-only new game release? Wow, these guys don’t have their heads up their butts at all.
It looks like they designed it to run on G4 iBooks – I wonder if the MacBook’s integrated graphics will be adequate, once they make a universal binary…
‘NVidia Gforce2 or ATI 7500 or higher’
So MacBook/Mini owners are SOL?
“So MacBook/Mini owners are SOL?”
Hey, stop whining! Remember that these MacBooks and minis weren’t designed for playing games. They’re just for accessing the web, email, etc.
That’s what everybody said when I bitched about the crappy graphics…
“Remember that these MacBooks and minis weren’t designed for playing games. They’re just for accessing the web, email, etc.”
…But the MacBook replaces both the iBook G4 and the 12″ PowerBook, both which had dedicated graphics and both which are officially supported by this new game.
I also noticed that although Apple used to state that the Intel integrated graphics of the mini is great for playing the latest games, they’ve quietly deleted that part of the page. LOL
Ive just finished playing the demo now on my iMac G5. Its not too bad for a bit of fun, but for serious racing, id prefer something like the Need for Speed series of games.
I’ve played the Nintendo DS version of Cars aswell.. and its the most crappy car game ive ever played. I went back to the store and got a refund.
The game hasn’t even got a proper racing track to race in it. Its nothing like the PC version.
I want to drive the Apple car
http://www.freemacblog.com/apple-sponsors-in-the-piston-cup-circuit/
Apparently there will be a universal binary patch released in the next week or two.
It will fun to compare performance between an iBook G4 and a MacBook. Maybe http://www.barefeats.com will be up to the task…
I just bought a Nintendo DS Lite man this is the coolest handheld I have ever owned. It was between this and the PSP. Didn’t take me long to chose once I played with the DS Lite a little. It sits very nicely next to my ipod and powerbook.
Apparently you are all talking out your ass. This game runs as expected, very well, on my 20″ Core Dou iMac.
Never take something at face value without first verifing those reporting. Trust but verify
Tried to download the demo for my three year old son. It does not work on a brand new Mac Book Pro. Yes I used the patch. The patch causes it to ask me to insert the original game disk. It does work on my G4 Mini but skips the instructions page so fast that I can’t read it. Somebody did ZERO QA for this thing.