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Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars for the Mac Now Shipping

Mac users can at last join the struggle for Earth, as the Mac OS X flavor of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is now shipping in North America! The happy news comes straight from Mac publisher Aspyr, where you can also order your copy of the game. Welcome to the fight!

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AUSTIN, Texas (March 18, 2008) ­ Aspyr Media, Inc., announced today they have begun shipping id Software's Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars for Mac throughout North America. Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is licensed by Activision and was developed by Aspyr Studios for Mac.

Built using id Software's revolutionary MegaTexture rendering technology, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars features strategic team play, persistent character promotions, and the universe¹s most powerful weapons and vehicles in heroic objective-based battles as the Global Defense Force faces off against the alien Strogg invasion. Battles rage on stunning battlefields inspired by tropical, arctic, temperate, urban and desert locations both online and offline against lethal A.I. combatants. With unmatched graphics, physics, networking, and story-driven military missions, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars transports players to the front lines of the ultimate war for Earth.

As the invasion begins, players choose to battle as one of five unique classes in either the human Global Defense Force (GDF) or the barbaric Strogg armies, each augmented with specialist weapons and combat hardware. Troops utilize more than 40 conventional and futuristic vehicles, deployable structures, and defense systems like quad-bikes, tanks, and alien walkers for intense ground assaults; or helicopters and anti-gravity ships to lend firepower from the air. Throughout each battle, teams establish bases, deploy defense structures, artillery, radar, and advanced forward-command systems into enemy territory while constructing and demolishing obstacles to speed progress and gain a tactical advantage over the enemy.

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is available now through Aspyr's website, http://www.aspyr.com/product/info/78. For more information, fans can also visit the official site at www.enemyterritory.com.

Good news for Mac owners I guess

Cool! Now a grand total of five new players will be joining us!

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Originally Posted by 18X View Post
Cool! Now a grand total of five new players will be joining us!
Lots like me have already joined via BootCamp ...gave up on the Mac version several months ago. I will end up getting the Mac version for sure, but not till the price drops. Till then I'll be booting into friggin XP to play.

It will be interesting to see how future updates will be handled between the different versions. I'm assuming the Mac version is shipping at v1.4 ...hope to see the patches released within a day or so of eachother.

Finally! Now I can play ETQW from within my favorite OS rather than constantly dual booting. Lets hope Aspyr did a good job on the port....

Cool news, how many mac players do we have anyway?

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Originally Posted by R0GUE View Post
Finally! Now I can play ETQW from within my favorite OS rather than constantly dual booting. Lets hope Aspyr did a good job on the port....
the latest graphics update that was released alongside 10.5.2 is supposed to have significantly improved performance.

Good news!
No System requirements infos ?

It requires a new Intel machine with a 2.0ghz C2D proc and at least an ATI X1600 or Nvidia GeForce 7300 ...and Leopard

most important question: can owners of the Windows version download mac binaries to use with their data like the linux users can?

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most important question: can owners of the Windows version download mac binaries to use with their data like the linux users can?
Nope ...it's a stand-alone product
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