1. "Battlefield 2142 is already on the Apple Store, along with all the other games EA has released "

maybe on your side of the pond, this is the 21st century and its taking ages in uk.

Posted at 8:18AM on Oct 12th 2007 by bob

2. Umm, why are you angry at them for buying BioWare? Does not that make the chances of Mass Effect, Kotor III, etc coming to Macintosh much higher? Admittedly EA can suck at times, but it sounds like their relationship with BioWare isn't going to involve them messing up the development side of things, more of an "exclusive publisher" type thing.

Posted at 9:03AM on Oct 12th 2007 by DaiMac79

3. I hope it plays/performs A LOT better than BF2142.

BF2142.....what a waste of $39.95.

Posted at 10:02AM on Oct 12th 2007 by JC

4. @bob: I agree! I've been waiting for these games to arrive in the UK for a while.

We shouldn't get too excited though, I can't imagine they'd release BF3 as an actual OS X app, it'll just be Cider-wrapped again :( Better than nothing, but still not good.

It's a shame, more game studios should follow Blizzard's example. The OS X WoW client has some features the Windows client doesn't have.

Posted at 10:21AM on Oct 12th 2007 by PistolPeet

5. "i have windows xp on my work machine, but i boot into my mac for gaming"

Posted at 1:12PM on Oct 12th 2007 by tim

6. I too think BF2142 is a big ol' waste of cash. The Cider crap stinks. Just build a real OS X binary. It's not that hard.

I'm also very disappointed with BF2142's focus on online gameplay. I just don't dig it; trying to find a server that isn't full of Red Bulled-up teenagers who will spank me repeatedly when all I want to do is have some fun in the evening, being booted from servers for no reason at all, the ever-present lag, etc. Just give me a FPS that I can play by myself. I don't know how many times I went completely through BF1942 and still get a kick out of it.

Posted at 1:21PM on Oct 12th 2007 by sjmills

7. BF2142 is a major disappointment. But a friend of a friend is playing a ciderized BF2 and it plays great. Only the occasional crash (weekly, rather than hourly with BF2142). No network play with the illicit version, but single-player is real stable. Now if only EA would start selling a ciderized version of BF2 I'd buy it (and hope that they don't break it like they did 2142)

Posted at 2:46PM on Oct 12th 2007 by cwaldrip

8. It's nice to see a large gaming company like EA work towards bringing more native titles to Apple Computers. Hopefully other bigger brands will follow suit and finally admit that OS X is just as much a gaming platform as any version of Windows, if not infinitely better.

Posted at 3:08PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Philometalist

9. I haven't been impressed with any of the Battlefield games. Weird bugs, sketchy graphics, rampant cheating...meh.

Personally I'm excited for Unreal Tournament 3. Too bad my iMac's X1600 graphics chip will probably be too wimpy to run it, as are the weak graphics chips in the brand new iMacs. Shame...

Posted at 3:36PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Quix

10. Fucking sweet! This would be so awesome.

And TUAW's back in its groove! Lots of great content today :D THANK YOU!! :)

Posted at 4:06PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Jt Hollister

11. Bleh, itll be a shit port using cider... Nothing new here folks, move along

Posted at 6:02PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Mike

12. Alright guys, you have to understand: this is a lot more important than just YOU being able to play the game on your Mac. This is about the fact that a huge game developer is releasing for the Mac, and that means others will follow. This is a step towards an era when games are developed for the Mac and the Windows versions are just shitty ports.

Posted at 9:18PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Jt Hollister