Colin McRae Rally Mac Reviews

Boot and Rally

Controls feel responsive and fun. Vast number of tracks and real-world cars. Single-Mac multiplayer splits screens or moderates turns. Universal binary.

Doesn't work with GMA graphics chip that shares memory with main system RAM. Online competition uses external (free) GameRanger service instead of in-game matching. Force-feedback doesn't work with a 10.4-Intel system.

. The incredible depth kept us playing. We often had to race stages again to post times good enough to progress, but we always felt close enough to have fun. Even in the disappointment of losing, we kept coming back for more.

Mac gaming continues to go from strength to strength and Feral's Colin McRae Rally Mac looks, sounds and plays like a dream. We take a closer look at what the latest game to hit the Mac has to offer.

Lots of vehicles, courses, and game modes to choose from, split-screen multiplayer mode

Unsatisfactory online mode, won't run on Macs using Intel graphics cards

Rally racing has been tried before on the Mac, mainly in shareware form, and while adequate, it's never looked, sounded or performed so well. If you've ever wanted to kick up mud and dirt as you throw a 300HP all-wheel-drive foreign coupe around hairpin c...

After a long development process fraught with hurdles, Colin McRae Rally finally arrives on the Mac. And it takes the rally racing genre to new heights, despite an unsatisfactory online mode.

Lots of vehicles, courses, and game modes to choose from; split-screen multiplayer mode.

Unsatisfactory online mode.

The development of this game has been fraught with problems. Apple's switch to Intel Macs, some behind-the-scenes changes at Feral and other issues conspired to keep this game from being released until fairly late into 2007, despite it being based on PC-g...