Grand Theft Auto 3 Comes to the Mac App Store
Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas are now all available on the App Store for Mac OS X:
Today we are happy to announce Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are coming to the Mac App Store, each individually priced for $15.99. The titles will be made available for download throughout the month beginning as of now, with Grand Theft Auto III.Vice City is due to land later this month on August 25th, and San Andreas be available on September 1st. If you're an iTunes using Mac user, check out GTA3 now, and the pages for Vice City and San Andreas are also available. |
07:12am 20/08/11 Permalink
I wonder if they're just Wine ports. Any word on that?
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09:19am 20/08/11 Permalink
This is great news IMO. Pretty tempting.
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03:59pm 20/08/11 Permalink
Most tend to be Cider ports. Last time I checked, cider was worse than Wine even despite it's pay to play model. I used both, but games like WoW ran 2-3x better under wine using directx libraries than it did using opengl through cedega. |
12:09am 21/08/11 Permalink
Perhaps Rockstar thought cousin Roman's constant whinging to Niko on the phone meant that GTA:IV wasn't worth porting.
Also, what Tepid said. Steve Job's reality distortion field causing minor space-time warping side effects? |
12:38am 21/08/11 Permalink
Last time I checked, cider was worse than Wine even despite it's pay to play model. All of those commercial Wine forks are based on ancient Wine code. At this point the official Wine is faster and more compatible than them. |
07:36pm 21/08/11 Permalink
If you're an iTunes using Mac user, check out GTA3 now, and the pages for Vice City and San Andreas are also available. Just checked and the link doesn't load iTunes - it loads the App Store (despite having "itunes" in the url). ...but it appears locked at 640 x 480 resolution (the in-game video option is greyed out) :( I ran it in higher resolution a decade ago on my windows machine. How old is your mac?? That seems really odd to me. I have no probs running L4D2 at uber res... |
08:37am 22/08/11 Permalink
Well that only took how many years? 7?
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09:43am 23/08/11 Permalink
