Theres been no patch and EA is, unfortunately, something of a black hole for tech support.

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When Electronic Arts (EA) announced in mid-2007 plans to publish games for the Mac, it surprised many gamers by including one game series that hasnt raised its head on the Mac beforethe venerable Need for Speed series of street racing games.

That was in stark contrast to the other titles making up EAs revived Mac effortsnotably Madden NFL which had been on the platform before in one form or another.

So now that Need for Speed: Carbon is available on the Mac, how does it fare.

If youve played any of the recent Need for Speed games available for the PC or video game consoles, youll have a basic idea of what to expect.

If not, heres the executive summary: Youre a street racer whos returned to the city after an extended absence, only to discover that the town is now controlled by several rival gangs who have taken over different neighborhoods.

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The only way you can achieve your former gloryand control of the cityis to race against them in a variety of events and win, avoiding cops, other drivers and all manners of objects like telephone poles and concrete barriers in the process.

If youre looking for an actual racing simulator, youll be better off with something like Colin McRae Rally from Feral Interactive.

But if youre looking for a cinematic game that will make you feel like youre in a scene from The Fast and the Furious, Need for Speed: Carbon is really hard to top.

Events vary from canyon runs that will have you caroming down hairpin turns at top speed, threatening to go over the edge at every moment, to drifting (that is, sledding your car around tight curving courses, spinning the wheels and fishtailing as much as possible for points).

Each race you win will earn prestige, not only for you but for your little racing club and its control of territory.

Wins also net you cash, which you can turn over into seemingly endless varieties of car customization or new vehicles that youll be able to unlock as your influence and your list of winning races increases.

Youll be able to race everything from front wheel drive subcompacts to roaring 60s era muscle cars by the time youre done, with a few supercar exotics thrown in for good measure.

As you impress the locals, youll build your own racing gang or team; each additional character actually races along side you and can help you out in a pinch.

They each have different specialties: Blockers will keep a particularly pesky opponent from another team at bay, while scouters will go ahead of you and look for shortcuts.

Drafters will get in front of you and let you ride in their slipstream, which lets you reduce your throttle and accelerate like a slingshot at key times when it really matters.

Sound cues are used to good effect; you hear teammates over the radio barking out information and providing situation reports as you make your way around the circuit.

Actorsreal life-actors overlaid with some CGI effectsare decent for the most part, although a bit melodramatic and silly at times, and the music is the run-of-the-mill urban beathip-hop stuff youd expect out of a street racing game (or a kid with a Honda and 3,000-watt stereo).

Control of the game with a keyboard is actually pretty good, although I favored a game controller, similar to how Id play this game on a console.

If youre not a console gamer, you might not really care about having a game controller, but, being familiar with this game series and this general genre on the consoles, a controller made the difference for me.

As another game thats been brought to the Mac by TransGamings Cider translation-layer technology, Need for Speed: Carbon runs only on Intel-based Macs, and will only work right on Macs that have discrete graphics chips.

That means that MacBooks and Mac minis are left off the list of supported devices, unfortunately).

The game ran fantastically on my 2.33GHz MacBook Pro, but it wasnt without problemsa few times, the game quit on me.

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