Test:The Game Mac OS
Test:The Game Mac OS
8Bitdo SN30 Pro Wireless Bluetooth Controller with Joysticks Rumble Vibration USB-C Cable Gamepad for Windows, Mac OS, Android, Steam, Compatible with Nintendo Switch 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,301 $53.99. Even though Mac is not a hardcore gaming OS, there are some exciting games to play. Gaming Keyboards and Mouse are okay to deal with, but nothing can replace the comfort of playing with a Game Controller on your Mac. The additional comfort is that you can lay down cozily on your Couch while you enjoy the game.
It used to be that Mac users were a relatively small group, mostly composed of A/V nerds and graphic designers. And while these disciplines still account for a large portion of Mac people, Apple has gained quite a good deal more of the personal computer market share in recent years. Despite that, the world of non-console gaming doesn't quite reflect this change yet, as evidenced by the fact that the term 'PC gaming' is still generally the preferred nomenclature without actually applying to the OS X.
This is slowly changing. The days of attempting to play PC-only titles in a virtual machine are (thankfully) starting to be a thing of the past. Quite a few titles have been ported over to OS X in the past year or so, and it looks as though more and more developers are starting to realize that PC gamer should also include the Mac users. Heck, Steam got the right idea with porting over to the Mac, so have others. Here's a roundup of some of the most popular titles that are now available for OS X.
Torchlight
Like a prettier, smaller version of 'Diablo II', this action RPG manages to take most of the good aspects of overhead hack and slash games and add a few original touches which make it fairly addictive. Play as a member of one of three character classes who is tasked by Syl, a sage who has lost her mentor, Alric somewhere in a mine beneath the city of Torchlight. The mine is filled with Ember, a substance which is known to imbue both objects and people with magical abilities, but also corrupts the minds of any living creatures with whom it comes into contact for prolonged periods.
Further still beneath the mines are ruined palaces, hanging gardens and other stranger labyrinths filled with monsters and loot. The player is accompanied by a pet in the form of a cat or dog who can carry extra items, aid in fights, heal, and sell off unwanted treasure without the player having to port back into town. While it's not the most nuanced plot of all time, this game is more than an adequate substitute for those who can no longer hold their breath waiting for Blizzard to release 'Diablo III'.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Few games can reduce a grown man to whimpers and tears. This game is one of them.
At the start of the game, the main character awakens in what appears to be the entryway of a castle with no clue as to his identity. He soon finds a note from himself, which reveals that his name is Daniel and that he has forced himself to forget the circumstances under which he arrived at the castle. The note also warns him that he is being hunted by a 'shadow'. Thus begins Daniel's descent into the castle (and- dun dun DUN- The Darkness), where he must discover, via a series of flashbacks, just what the hell is going on, and how to stop it. 'Amnesia' is all from the first person perspective, though to call it a 'shooter' would be misleading, since Daniel cannot actually fight anything. He must stay within areas of light in order to remain sane, and can collect tinderboxes and oil for his lantern. However, he can't stay in the light all the time, or else he will be seen. And if he is seen, he will be attacked. Even if he can't see what's attacking him.
Diablo 3
Whether you love it or hate it, Diablo 3 is arguably one of the best action RPGs ever made. Superior to any of its predecessors, Diablo 3 offers a host of new features, gameplay changes, and, of course, another adventure in the dark world of Sanctuary.
Additions like the new crafting and skill rune systems should expand the experience without straying too far from franchise roots, while alterations to the core gameplay should help to streamline things considerably.
Instead, they've helped eliminate the minor nuisances you had to deal with in the prior games. No more manually picking up each last pile of gold. No more tedious inventory management. This is a smarter, faster version of the Diablo we all know and love, and that's definitely something to be excited about.
Unfortunately, the inclusion of the in-game auction house may hamper some of the enjoyment players may have with the game, but it isn't a deal breaker. Beneath its problems, the game is still a solid action RPG.
Machinarium
Diminutive robot protagonist Josef finds himself in what appears to be a junkyard. After a brief tutorial in which actions and abilities are demonstrated, it is made clear through a few cartoonish flashbacks that some bad robots wearing black hats kidnapped Josef's girlfriend, and strong-armed the little robot himself out of the robot city. Josef then proceeds to re-enter the robot city in pursuit of his lost girlfriend, only to discover that the Black Cap Brotherhood has planted a bomb in the robot city. Josef must then solve a series of extremely creative visual puzzles in order to free his lady, disarm the bomb, and save the city. The soundtrack is particularly amazing, the artwork is charming, but 'Machinarium' is the sort of experience that cannot really be described in any way that will do it proper justice. Just play the game.
Bioshock
Filled with dieselpunk eye candy and tough moral decisions, this eponymous first chapter of the 'Bioshock' series is basically a big middle finger in the collective face of Ayn Rand enthusiasts, proving to many doubters outside the gaming subculture that videogames could be more than just mindless gore-fests.
The player assumes the role of Jack, who has come upon the fallen underwater city of Rapture, built by uber-capitalist businessman Andrew Ryan. Due to an increasing discrepancy between the rich and the poor, and human dependence upon a substance known as ADAM, Rapture has suffered a catastrophic revolt. Jack has survived a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean only to find his way under the surface to Rapture, guided by a man named Atlas. Jack must then make his way through the city, encountering Little Sisters, the carriers of the ADAM, and Big Daddies, the guardians of the Little Sisters. Throughout a series of quests, the truth is slowly revealed to be even stranger than the initial setup.
BioShock Infinite will also soon be hitting the MAC Store in Summer 2013
Left 4 Dead series
Though both of these titles have been out for a few years now, they were only ported to OS X and made available through Steam just last fall, to the enjoyment of all. There are obviously a plethora of zombie-related games out there, and no one would blame a person for being sick and tired of all the lurching and shambling. However, both of the Left 4 Dead games are particularly intriguing in that the co-op mode doesn't just involve playing together, or helping each other out. In certain instances, a player actually needs his or her co-players, like when the player respawns in a locked closet, or needs healing but is not carrying any form of medicine. Teammates can bring one another back from the brink of death with a defibrillator or lure the infected away from other teammates with a pipe bomb. So basically, short of a space virus that actually causes the zombocalypse to happen, this is probably the most realistic simulations available in terms of the need for teamwork. Even though the likelihood of magically finding guns and defibrillators lying around in real life is kinda dubious.
Portal Series
Originally bundled in Valve's 2007 Orange Box for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, this first person puzzle-platformer was intended to be a small bonus game. However, it ended up being so wildly popular that it was ported to OS X and released in May of 2010 via Steam. In a series of jump, gravity and timing puzzles with teleportation as the main mechanic of gameplay, the player (who we eventually learn is a woman named Chell) must overcome increasingly difficult test chamber scenarios at an Aperture Science research facility. Chell is at first guided and then taunted by an AI named GLaDOS, who promises 'cake and grief counseling' should Chell complete the experiment satisfactorily.
Like its predecessor, Portal 2 is also very much worth playing. Set hundreds of years after the events of the first game, the Aperture Science labs are in a dilapidated state, and allow for you to discover what happened at the laboratory once and for all.
The clever gameplay mechanics from the first game return, and are bolstered by a host of all new puzzles involving various forms of liquid paint, lasers, and other physics-bending materials.
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
This sequel was a long time coming. Thankfully, it shipped for PC and OS X at the same time. The story picks up four years after the events of the original Starcraft, and follows an insurgent group attempting to make its way across the Terran Dominion. Non-linear gameplay with regard to the campaigns keeps the game interesting, and is a minor departure from the original. However, the order in which the campaigns are done will not interrupt the narrative.
Units remain largely the same, with some additional specialized units available only for campaign play and not in regular multi-player, such as the Terran Wraith, Vulture, and Diamondback. There is also a map editor, similar to the original StarEdit, which allows for customization of terrain and campaigns.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Firaxis's XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a true successor to the turn-based strategy game series by Microprose. XCOM: Enemy Unknown sees the invasion of our cities by an extraterrestrial force that seeks, it seems, to purge mankind from the face of the planet.
Players are tasked with controlling a squad of earth's finest soldiers to take on the alien menace head-on in turn-based combat in locations ranging from dense urban environments to labyrinthine alien structures.
Revived by the makers of Civilization, the new XCOM streamlines everything that made the original title a little annoying to play through and improves upon all of its best qualities for a modern, turn-based strategy game that's like no other.
In addition to being released on the console, the game is quite thankfully playable on both the PC and Mac.
Minecraft
Minecraft began as a PC-only game, but it's since been ported over to the Mac and Linux, where it has enjoyed regular updates consistent with the PC version of the game.
The game's popularity can be attributed to the fact that it plays like a sort of multiplayer game of Lego, in which players can craft castles and kingdoms to their hearts content, or explore the procedurally generated wilderness for adventures that are unlike anything they've ever encountered.
Played both offline and online, the game is fully compatible with its PC and Linux counterparts so friends and family can play the game with each other on servers regardless of whether they're running the game on Windows or the Mac's OS X.
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Borderlands 2: The framerate may not be the best for the Mac version of Borderlands 2, which is why we haven't thought to include it on this list. When Aspyr (they're handling the port) sharpens up the game' well consider it.
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Those really wanting to be on the safe side with their Mac OS X use protection software. The market offers freeware suites or paid programs that come with a bunch of good extras. AV-TEST tested 13 applications for their security and performance, yet only certified 10 of them.
Detection rates under Mac OS XOf the 13 tested security suites, eight detected all of the threats 100 percent, and three products failed.
Mac pros repeatedly declare that Mac OS X is built so securely that no additional protection software is needed. But every year, experts discover new waves of attacks on Macs or safety gaps. In June 2015, for example, security researcher Stefan Esser discovered that just a few shell commands are sufficient to gain access to root-level privileges under OS X 10.10. In September 2015, it became known that an infected version of the development environment, Xcode, had been pawned off on app developers. This version, or the malware resulting from it, was then named XcodeGhost. The produced apps, including XcodeGhost malware, subsequently ended up in the App Store. Apple didn't realize they were infected, however. Furthermore, at the beginning of October 2015, an expert discovered how to defeat the security tool Gatekeeper embedded in OS X, thus installing an app that subsequently unloads malware into the system.
Only four solutions slow down Mac OS X by 10 percent, from Sophos onward, it is already 20 percent, SentinelOne slows the system down 80 percent more and Avast 170 percent due to immediate scanning of downloads.
' tabindex='0'>13 Security Suites for Mac OS XOnly four solutions slow down Mac OS X by 10 percent, from Sophos onward, it is already 20 percent, SentinelOne slows the system down 80 percent more and Avast 170 percent due to immediate scanning of downloads.
This very compact solution detected all the threats, works quickly, but only offers surfing protection as an extra feature.
' tabindex='0'>Bitdefender Antivirus for MacThis very compact solution detected all the threats, works quickly, but only offers surfing protection as an extra feature.
This security solution works quickly, safely and even throws in a Firewall.
' tabindex='0'>Symantec Norton SecurityThis security solution works quickly, safely and even throws in a Firewall.
The freeware security package for Mac OS X systems does indicate the highest security in the test, yet it slows down the system somewhat.
' tabindex='0'>Sophos Anti-VirusThe freeware security package for Mac OS X systems does indicate the highest security in the test, yet it slows down the system somewhat.
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Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac
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Sophos Anti-Virus
A lower number of malware threats doesn't make Mac OS X safer
While the number of known malware threats for Windows has already surpassed the 450 million mark, the number for Mac OS X malware is only around a few thousand. But afflicted users know that even one malware specimen is enough to ruin your whole day. Attackers are currently focusing on infiltrating systems with infected apps. Naturally, they are aware of the general security barriers of Mac OS X. That's why the above-mentioned attacks are successful. With a good security suite, Mac OS X users can raise their system to the greatest possible level of security.
13 programs put to the test – 3 fail
In the lab at AV-TEST, 13 products were tested in terms of their protection function, false positives and speed. In their protection function, the applications were required to identify and liquidate new, still unknown malware threats. Compared to the last tests, such as in April 2015, more products have now achieved an excellent detection rate. The solutions from Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, ESET, Kaspersky, SentinelOne, Sophos and Symantec identified all the threats in the test 100 percent. Of particular interest is the result from SentinelOne. As a product of the latest generation, it works without a signature database to identify malware. For analysis, it only uses the technology of behavior-based detection.
The additional security suites delivered lower results. Coming in last were the solutions from ClamXav, Webroot and F-Secure with detection rates of only 76.2 to 88.1 percent. That is why these three solutions did not receive a security certificate from AV-TEST. All the others did.
No significant false positives
It's always annoying for the user when security products falsely detect benign files or block the launch of apps. But in this test segment, the lab has nothing but praise. Only ClamXav falsely flagged a clean file. All other system watchdogs exhibited error-free friend-or-foe detection. In the subsequent test, apps were also installed and launched. In this case, the suites did not sound a single false alarm.
Although the test for potentially unwanted applications ('PUA' for short) does not yet play any role in this certification, the laboratory still performed it behind the scenes. Avira, Bitdefender, ESET, Intego, Symantec and SentinelOne already did a good job. All the other products could still use some improvement in this area. Some manufacturers have a very differentiated view of what is a PUA and what is not, and offer a wide latitude in their approach. They allow some disputable applications to continue to run undisturbed, whereas other manufacturers block these programs.
Lots of applications slowing down the system
Users repeatedly complain that an installed suite slows down their system. The laboratory found out in its speed test whether this is really true or only imagined. To do so, 26.6 GB of data were copied onto a reference system, MD5 hash values were calculated for files and a set of files was downloaded. In total, these tests took 146 seconds on the reference system. Afterwards, the tests were repeated; naturally with each of the installed security suites. The best performers in this category were the products from ClamXav, Panda, Bitdefender and Symantec. They slow down the system by about 10 percent. A value that is not really noticeable in daily use. For Sophos, this value increases to 20 percent, Avira already jumps to 40 percent, SentinelOne to 80 percent, and for F-Secure, it is already over 120 percent.
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The application finishing last in this case is Avast, as it works differently for downloads: it already scans the downloaded file during the download. This may be secure, but it also takes a lot of time. The other products only scan the file once it has arrived and is executed.
Useful extras
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Some paid programs offer extra features such as an anti-spam function, safe browsing, a firewall, parental control routines or a backup function. The freeware system watchdogs generally do not offer any additional functions.
None of the commercial products delivers all the above functions in one package. Rather, all the solutions offer one, two or three extra features. The security packages from Intego, Kaspersky and Symantec throw in the most additional features. Some also even offer a system cleaning tool or functions for secure payment on the Internet.
Conclusion: There are many secure products, and many put the brakes on the system in daily use
A total of eight of the products examined detected all the malware threats in the test by 100 percent. These even include three freeware products in the mix. But if you are seeking a solution with the best security performance at the lowest system load, the field narrows considerably. The ones that remain are Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac and Symantec Norton Security with 100 percent detection with roughly 10 percent additional system load. Both are paid products.
Those looking for a freeware solution can turn to Sophos Anti-Virus. It also detected 100 percent of the threats in the test, but it slowed down the system by 20 percent. The other freeware products from Avira and Avast do detect everything error-free, but a system slowdown of 40 or 170 percent is not acceptable.
Our tip: Some versions of security software offered via the App Store differ from the version on the manufacturer's website. The version offered directly from the manufacturer often includes more additional Features.
Protection for Mac OS X: All just a case of Chicken Little?
Many users are of the opinion that security experts exaggerate when stating the risks and attacks on Mac OS X. The experts counter that Apple's marketing is quick to play down too many serious issues.
At international conferences on the topic of IT security and anti-virus software, the topic of attacks and security gaps in Mac OS X is an increasing subject on the agenda. It was also addressed at the security conference AVAR 2015 in Vietnam. At that conference, there was a recent expert article 'Threat Intelligence behind XcodeGhost' – on the routine of how the infected programming environment for Mac apps was distributed, and who the author is.
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Although the number of malware specimens for Mac OS X is only increasing slowly – it is growing continuously. The reports of detected security gaps in Mac OS X are also steadily growing. The Achilles heels are naturally not only found in the operating system. Most of the breaches in Mac OS X occur due to programs or drivers of other manufacturers. Already in 2014, OS X and iOS exhibited considerably more gaps than Linux or Windows systems. A brief look into the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) indicates a long list of entered CVEs – Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. The search for CVEs under 'Apple' indicates more CVEs in the three months of September to November 2015 than for the search term 'Windows'.
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The use of security software for Mac OS X should not fail due to false vanity.
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