Finally, two years after the original release of BioShock, Mac owners get a chance to see what all of the fuss has been about. Andrew Ryan opens the doors of Rapture again on October 7, inviting Mac gamers (yes, they exist ... somewhere) to spend $49.99's worth of ADAM (£34.99 in the UK, €39.95 throughout Europe) for entry into the aquatic kingdom full of genetic abominations and pipe-powered electronics. With a description like that, who could say no?
The port is being handled by London-based dev Feral Interactive. We spoke with Brad Gibson, director of Marketing/PR at Feral, who told us the port "does not use Cider," the current go-to portability technology to get Windows games running on Intel-based Macs. We've put some more questions in to Feral to see if BioShock is the first native Unreal Engine 3 game on the Mac platform.
Reader Comments (49)
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:09PM PlatinumSkeet said
Well for it's only $50 for 320 gig HDD...
Space is nothing...
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Space is nothing...
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 8:02PM AnderFREAK said
That better be one beefy mac... Unless you've got a top quality macbook pro or a desktop, you won't be able to play it. This is the folly of "mac gaming". Virtually no one who owns a mac will be able to play this unless they spent $2,500+ on the system. You can build a PC that will run games from the distant future for half that price. I can tell my macbook (non-pro) brothers right now to not waste their time even asking if this will run on the plastic wonder.
That said it's not that big of a deal to build a PC with intel x86 hardware and download kalyway OS X for a hackintosh (cheap PC hardware that can run a hacked version of OS X) with bootcamp.
I'll never buy a mac from the apple store again.
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That said it's not that big of a deal to build a PC with intel x86 hardware and download kalyway OS X for a hackintosh (cheap PC hardware that can run a hacked version of OS X) with bootcamp.
I'll never buy a mac from the apple store again.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 5:35PM (Unverified) said
Well, that's good and all, but you can get Bioshock for five dollars for Windows...I don't see the market here. Anyone who's interested in a game like Bioshock and owns a Mac probably already has it for Xbox or runs bootcamp.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 3:38AM sigma8 said
Yeah, the price thing is ridiculous. I think the Apple Store still sells Civ4 for like $49.99. It's really ridiculous. The money you'd save by buying 10 year-old PC games versus their undiscounted Mac Ports would be enough to throw together a system that could run them better than the mac could.
I'm saying this, and I'm a big mac user. Multiple macs at work, multiple macs at home.. I almost never turn on my PC.......except when I want to play a computer game. Because sadly, this is just the way it is.
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I'm saying this, and I'm a big mac user. Multiple macs at work, multiple macs at home.. I almost never turn on my PC.......except when I want to play a computer game. Because sadly, this is just the way it is.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 5:37PM Goaliegeek said
Great, but I boot camp'd my MBP and got Bioshock off of Steam when it was on sale for like $5.99.
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 5:38PM Special Agent Steve said
For a second I thought it was Bioshock 2. I almost shat a brick. A very large brick.
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 5:45PM (Unverified) said
Now thats just silly...
what i want to know is this:
If the devs can make it work for Mac, why not make it work for linux too? Cant be that hard seeing as Mac is based off BSD/Unix.. come on now? if you would just do this for me.. i would never have to use windows anymore :/
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what i want to know is this:
If the devs can make it work for Mac, why not make it work for linux too? Cant be that hard seeing as Mac is based off BSD/Unix.. come on now? if you would just do this for me.. i would never have to use windows anymore :/
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:22PM (Unverified) said
People who use Linux are less likely to pay for downloads, and are a really small market.
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:00PM RogueJedi86 said
Yeah, that's one thing the Mac commercials neglect to mention. That young hip 20-something guy portraying the Mac would likely be a gamer, which means he'd be using a PC since the Mac either doesn't get a given game at all, or gets it 2 or 3 years after PC. So much for those commercials being accurate of their stereotypical user.
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:19PM Special Agent Steve said
They have a better sense of humor than that?
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:18PM Special Agent Steve said
"I guess you'd expect PS3 games to work on a 360 then..."
Right... because Microsoft is always toting how you can use the PS3 firmwares on their systems.
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Right... because Microsoft is always toting how you can use the PS3 firmwares on their systems.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:42PM (Unverified) said
What exactly is the point of cheap shots against Mac? I use mine to do work at home and a minor amount of gaming. We generally game on consoles otherwise.
When we had a PC? We generally gamed on consoles. Who. Cares.
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When we had a PC? We generally gamed on consoles. Who. Cares.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 6:56PM WiredKnight said
Macintosh does nothing but take cheap shots at the PC industry. We like to push back whenever we get the opportunity.
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 9:56PM gatotsu911 said
I thought this was awesome (I've been having trouble running Boot Camp lately) until I saw that they were charging full price for it. What the fuck??
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Posted: Sep 24th 2009 10:46PM Ranus Studios said
Oh wait, just read the minimum requirements. Oh well. Got it on every other platform anyhoo.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 12:48AM trigonalmayhem said
well you can play bioshock on macs now, but not on windows 7. Awesome. I never finished it before I made the move from xp to 7, and now it won't play. Boo!
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 3:09AM (Unverified) said
You can get it for $5 on D2D on PC during their anniversary sale.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 7:55AM (Unverified) said
I thought about getting this, but I'm downloading it on Xbox Live instead. >.< Anyways, I like how this is going. I really hope that cider and ports of the engines change Mac gaming.
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 9:56AM (Unverified) said
fucking macs, i hate fucking macs, im forced to use them at uni and its like going back in time, the OS sux, one button mouse wtf! 'but macs are fantastic, theyre the industry standard for music and film making' woteva, they cant even play games ffs, all shine and no content, id rather have a horrid looking PC they can actually get the job done! and for half the price
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Posted: Sep 25th 2009 3:55PM (Unverified) said
I agree. My parents bought a Mac in 1986, before we bought our first IBM compatible, and I loathed it. I still hate them, and their pretentious users.
Oh, and I also agree about the Mac vs. PC commercials being totally hypocritical.... Go back and look at some of Apple's old promotional videos - it screams YUPPIE SCUM. And now they THINK that cool teens want one, and PC's are the yuppies.. Really? I don't see any PC's in my office (except for my laptop) - just Mac's as far as the eye can see. Any gamer with a hint of credibility wouldn't be caught dead, with a Mac.
Go look at the promo video for the Apple Lisa, if you need a good laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35vpsPIwlU
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Oh, and I also agree about the Mac vs. PC commercials being totally hypocritical.... Go back and look at some of Apple's old promotional videos - it screams YUPPIE SCUM. And now they THINK that cool teens want one, and PC's are the yuppies.. Really? I don't see any PC's in my office (except for my laptop) - just Mac's as far as the eye can see. Any gamer with a hint of credibility wouldn't be caught dead, with a Mac.
Go look at the promo video for the Apple Lisa, if you need a good laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35vpsPIwlU
Posted: Sep 25th 2009 1:41PM (Unverified) said
I'm a member of the intended market, but that price is absurd. You could buy Windows 7 student edition and Bioshock for windows and you'd save 15 dollars.
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Posted: Sep 26th 2009 5:24PM trigonalmayhem said
yeah but again, bioshock has all sorts of problems and doesn't even run on windows 7. I don't know what it's bloody problem is, 99.9% of software runs excellently on w7. It's like they just don't care about supporting their magnum opus game anymore on the operating system everyone's going to be using soon.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:30AM (Unverified) said
Yeh but after reinstalling windows XP2 about 10 times with various drivers trying to get the Steam Bioshock to stop blue screening on my brand new 2009 macbook pro 17" every 5 minutes I'm buying it just on the hope that it will work finally. It really is a spectacular game but it is just too frustrating to play under bootcamp with it crashing all the time. All of my other Steam games and every other windows program works just fine. Anyone else have this problem?
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