Playing Dead Space with Boot Camp – Dead Space Game Play Video Part I – 22 Minutes

Playing Dead Space on Mac Boot Camp Mac

Dead Space is Electronic Arts‘ latest third-person/action game. It was released in October 20. The game was developed by EA Redwood Shores.

In this game, you will play the character of Isaac Clarke. He is an engineering and ship systems specialist. Unlike others, he wears a special suit with a light blue heath meter at the back. It’s no question that’s a unique suit that you will never see in other games.

Deep space mining is a lucrative business, they say in the game. The USG Ishimura (Ishimura is a Japanese last name meaning ‘stone village’) is a mining vessel, which has gone missing in the Aegis System. There is no communications transmission from the vessel.

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Dispatched to the Aegis System is a maintenance team aboard USG Kellion including Isaac Clarke, Kendra Daniels (computer specialist), Zach Hammond (the chief security officer) and others. Their mission is to locate USG Ishimura and find out the cause of communications blackout. As they explore the vessel, it’s empty, and there is no vital sign of life.  Continue reading

Crysis Warhead Game Play Video 02

Mac game Boot Camp EA Crysis Warhead

The following QuickTime movie is a game play video of Electronic Arts‘ latest game Crysis Warhead. The game was released in September 16. Crysis Warhead is a stand-alone sequel to 2007 Crysis, which was developed by Crytek Studios. So you need not have the original game to play this sequel.

Okay. I admit that I screwed up in the first game play video. There was no way I could destroy the machine gun vehicle parked at the top of the hill. In the second game video, I first go back to the last battleground to get additional weapons. I need a bazooka or something to destroy that vehicle, right? Or land mines?  Continue reading

Crysis Warhead Game Play Video 01

Mac game Boot Camp EA Crysis Warhead

The following QuickTime movie is a game play video of Electronic Arts‘ latest game Crysis Warhead. The game was released in September 16. Crysis Warhead is a stand-alone sequel to 2007 Crysis, which was developed by Crytek Studios. So you need not have the original game to play this sequel.

This game play video shows about 24 minutes of an entire game play including all non-cut cinematic scenes. There is no guarantee that Crysis Warhead is fully playable on the Windows partition. But so far we have encountered no problem playing this game on iMac 2.8 GHz with Windows XP SP3 through Boot Camp. Is it a fun game to play? We have no idea.  Continue reading

SPORE Game Play Video – Part 4: Civilization Stage

Mac PC game SPORE

The following QuickTime movie shows a game play video of Electronic Arts‘ latest PC / Mac game SPORE. This game play video mainly covers the Civilization Stage and up to the very beginning of the Space Stage.

The game developer says there are three strategies by which you can convert opponent’s city to your regime. In this game play video, we just play a simple elimination game. That is, we use a military strategy to conquer all cities in the map.  Continue reading

SPORE Game Play Video – Part 3: Tribal Stage

Mac PC game SPORE

The following QuickTime movie shows a game play video of Electronic Arts‘ latest PC / Mac game SPORE. This game play video mainly covers the Tribal Stage and up to the very beginning of the Civilization Stage. This stage can be somewhat fun to play if you let your creatures catch fish, send gifts to other tribes and put wild creatures in captivity. If you don’t, this stage can become quite boring.  Continue reading