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Mac Gaming News - Aspyr's Star Wars Battlefront Blasts Into Stores

by , 12:35 PM EDT, July 26th, 2005

Aspyr Media on Tuesday announced that Star Wars Battlefront is now in stores. Ported to the Mac by Beenox Studios, the game allows players to take on the role of a Rebel Alliance, Imperial Army, Clone Army or Separatist Army soldier as they battle for control of 10 planets from the Star Wars galaxy, including Hoth, Tatooine, Endor and others drawn from the movies. The non-playable Jedi knights Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Mace Windu and Count Dooku provide support to each side.

Sporting gameplay similar to Aspyr's Battlefield 1942, Star Wars Battlefront features 20 different soldier types, each with unique strengths and weaknesses, as well as over 25 air and ground vehicles -- including X-Wings, TIE Fighters, AT-ATs and AT-STs -- that players can use to turn the tide of a battle. Players can test their mettle against computer-controlled opponents or take their battles online, where the Mac-only gaming service GameRanger offers live combatants.

Pricing is US$49.99. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.3.6, a G4 or G5 1GHz processor, 256MB RAM (512MB recommended), 2.7GB free hard drive space, 64MB video RAM and a DVD drive. Mac gamers who want to play against PC-using opponents must do so over a LAN or via Direct IP; Star Wars Battlefront is yet another casualty of GameSpy's increased license fees for Mac publishers, unfortunately.


Pilot snowspeeders or drive AT-ATs in the battle for Hoth

Aspyr Media

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Close Name:Guest
Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:54 pm Subject: CD Key

when i bought battlefront the CD key was defective
it looks like the last 4 letters/numbers were cut off and now i cant play it
kinda blows


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Close Name:acdc1174 Posts: 723 Joined: 16 Apr 2004
Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:09 am Subject: Lots of fun on XBox...

I may have to pick this one up. I wonder if my eMac with 32 MB VRAM can handle it?


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Close Name:DrShakagee -   TMO Forum Mod Posts: 941 Joined: 14 Jun 2001
Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:25 am Subject: Re: Lots of fun on XBox...

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acdc1174 wrote:
I may have to pick this one up. I wonder if my eMac with 32 MB VRAM can handle it?


You can always download the Aspyr Game Agent and find out.


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:17 am Subject:

Yes, mine too. Very sloppy, Aspyr, or whomever does your CD keys...


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Close Name:acdc1174 Posts: 723 Joined: 16 Apr 2004
Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:40 am Subject: Re: Lots of fun on XBox...

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DrShakagee wrote:
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acdc1174 wrote:
I may have to pick this one up. I wonder if my eMac with 32 MB VRAM can handle it?


You can always download the Aspyr Game Agent and find out.


thank you for the tip...good to know my PB can run it...now to install on my emac.


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:59 pm Subject: YEAH SAME THING ME

Have you slove it?


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Close Name:slarti Posts: 2 Joined: 29 Jul 2005
Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:20 pm Subject:

Freaky, I just ordered it from Apple and the exact same thing. I have 4 sets of 5 numbers and then the fifth set is just a 0. I just bought an expensive game that I can't play and I doubt they will believe me when I contact them about this.


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Close Name:slarti Posts: 2 Joined: 29 Jul 2005
Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:26 pm Subject:

Actually 2 minutes later, I found that this has happened quite a bit.

Sorry I lost the damned link, but go to www.aspyr.com and navigate to support>battlefront>support and you can enter your partial code to get the full.

My is tested and works.

YAY!


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Close Name:Guest
Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:23 am Subject: The bad cd key link

It worked for me
https://www.aspyr.com/page.php/battlefront_keys/
I did a google of
Mac Star Wars Battlefront cd key help
It broght me here,
and it worked my key was cut off now Star Wars Battlefront works
Whoot!

Thank You!!


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Close Name:Guest
Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:24 am Subject: https://www.aspyr.com/page.php/battlefront_keys/

There it is


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Close Name:Guest
Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:32 am Subject: There sence it wont leet me see my post body

hehe


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Close Name:Guest
Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:47 am Subject: TankShootter

Hi i downloaded it from download manadger and i dont know the cd key can you help me find it


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Close Name:Guest
Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:35 pm Subject:

it rites to me:your CD key is not authorized to play this game.


what can i do


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Close Name:Guest
Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:02 pm Subject: wont work

The thing wont work even when i do that website thing. I remember i had to call this person thing one time and they gave me it...but then i uninstalled it. So now i called the automated thing, they told me to go to a diff fone number, and then i called them and they did help then i went to https://www.aspyr.com/page.php/battlefront_keys/ but it still would do it it just says

Safari can’t open the page “https://www.aspyr.com/page.php/battlefront_keys/” because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server “www.aspyr.com”.
This is really pissin me off...SOMEONE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Close Name:Guest
Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:05 pm Subject: something wrong with installation

Whenever I try to install battlefront on my PPC mac i click the "install battlefront icon in the finder menu and i recieve the following error message: "there is not default application specified to open the document "install star wars battlefront". can someone help me out... please?


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:54 am Subject: cd key

i lost my cd key, can any1 give me one?


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Close Name:Guest
Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:07 pm Subject: cd key

wow i hate aspyr they took down the page to get corrected CD keys, so now my Battlefront is useless. thanks alot you jerks.


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