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[IMG News]

Inside Mac Games has posted the latest article in Justin Ancheta's continuing series of guides. The articles offer detailed instructions for running Windows versions of game titles which either never made it to Macs, or have Mac versions incompatible with recent OS releases. This week Justin turned his attention to the first three Tomb Raider titles.

Here's an excerpt:

Few game characters have generated as much controversy and discussion as Lara Croft. With all of the talk surrounding what she represents for both women and men in gaming and the popular media, Lara is one of the few characters in video games that arguably entered the mainstream consciousness almost purely on the strength of the controversy that she generated. Compared to characters like Mario, Sonic, or Link, Lara's fame arose not because of who she was, but because of what others thought of her, or perhaps, what others projected on to her. Beneath the surface image of a globe-trotting young female treasure hunter was almost an empty vessel, into to which the player could pour whatever notion of her personality that he or she carried going into the game.

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[Janichsan]

Well, for Tomb Raider II, you could of course also get the official, Mac OS X compatible version from Aspyr...

[Thain Esh Kelch]

And TR1 you can get through the anniversary edition..

[rampancy]

Janichsan, on 14 August 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

Well, for Tomb Raider II, you could of course also get the official, Mac OS X compatible version from Aspyr...

The official version of TR2 from Aspyr doesn't come DRM-free (AFAIK; I don't know about the OS X port of TR1 offered with Anniversary). Also, GOG's bundle has Tomb Raider 1, 2, and 3 for $9.99 (cheaper than either Anniversary or Aspyr's port of TR2). But over and beyond that, all three games run very well on the GMA 950; for reasons I can't quite fathom, Aspyr doesn't support older Macs with the GMA 950 with their new version of TR2.

That being said, I do plan on getting Anniversary, as I've recently gotten interested again in Tomb Raider. Also that game does run on GMA 950, and I always try to support Feral, as right now they're the best thing going out there for native ports of Mac games.