 | Dec 1 2008 |
PETER DAWSON I have recently upgraded to OS 10.5 on my Intel Imac, and I notice that I can no longer select which level to start on (O.K., I'll call it a cheat!) by holding down the F10 button when starting the game. I'd really appreciate any solutions to this problem. Peter Dawson.
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 | Jun 4 2007 |
M.U. MOORE Great, Mac-only game! Nice idea, fun to play - and I love the stereo mode with anaglyph glasses for a real 3D experience!
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 | Apr 14 2007 |
CENTRALCOASTCJ I'm still struggling with Level 2 and I can't get through the gates the ones with a half dome in middle and sharp edges on top. In level 1, I could shoot at the center and sometimes it would open. I could also fly "though" it if I press the jet pack while going up. So far, in level 2 I just crash! Any helps? I'm getting verrrry frustrated! Also I saw that using F12 and F2, F3 or F4 could restore health, jet fuel, etc. but these do not work for me. Nothing happens. Any clues why not? I do enjoy this game though ... it's becoming an addiction. So help this addict get through Level 2 if you can. Thanks!
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| Jun 4 2007 |
M.U. MOORE Hmm.. not sure if this is the right place for discussing hints and tricks how to play the game?? Check out this page, it might bring you some luck.... http://www.pangeasoft.net/nano2/cheats.html
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| Jun 9 2007 |
DEJAVU Well hopefully by now you have figured it all out. Helpful hints. Save all your missles for the robot launchers and those pesky tiny laser R2D2 guys. In level 2, you have to be on the lookout for all the missles launchers and especially those pesky R2D2 laser guys. The gates open when you blast the small statue eyes. Once the eye is blasted the gates open. Don't waste weapons on the big brontosaurs, fly around em. You may need to shoot the TRex especially near the eggs. Use missles...they are your main weapons. Collect every weapons pod you can. Use the spray weapon to disarm the rotating electric towers...each one. You can collect enough of that weapons to keep blasting them til they black out and the elctric field will fall. Missle the robot missle launchers. In the elctric field...circle the outside between the towers and the rock wall, swerving in and out to blast the towers until they are all dead, watch out for the launchers. My order is the palm field, blast the eye to open the gate just outside of that. Collect all the weapons outside the gate before entering. Then the electric field, then the lava pit. Watch for the laser guys here near the volcano.I kill off all the robots first...then collect weapons and eggs. Collect each arae's eggs before moving on to the next area. This level 2 is my favorite. Wait till you get to level 3... the gates have rotating windows...have to time it perfectly...you'll use your thrusters then. Goodluck
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| Nov 23 2006 |
DINOKILLER Looking for hints. Love the game, although I wish it had more levels. But, sinnce I'm still working my way thru level 3, that's not so bad right now. One thing I'm wondering - on level 3, you've got all those sandworm things. They pop out of hte ground, no sign they're about to do so, and nothing seems to kill them. I even tried flying directly at their maws and shooting into them, but just got killed. Is there any strategy to use against them, other than try and avoid being killed by them?
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| Jun 18 2007 |
PETER DAWSON I've played this game constantly for the last 18 months, so there's not much I don't know about it. There is NO way of killing those big grubs that come up out of the ground at you. The only thing you can is get out of their way, and quickly. I find you have a much better chance of getting the eggs near where they are, if you stay really close to the ground.
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| Nov 1 2006 |
JEDIK The linked file is still the 2.0 update. It seems that Pangea hasn't updated the downloadable file to 2.0.1 so far...
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| Nov 26 2005 |
RENE Just bought a Mac Mini (m a die-hard linux person); never played any real video games.Found nanosaur 2; tried it and am hooked. What an awesome game and how well it runs on my liitle Mac mini. Well done! It took me a while to get the keyboard flight controls under control and to find how to switch and aim weapons. I'm still stuck on level one but I'm getting better. I have a couple questions, though. What are the weird ballon-like things on long, tall sticks? I can destroy them fine, but they never seem to attack me. And what are these strange, open, hemispheric, concrete-like things? I can shoot at them like no tomorrow but nothing seems to have an effect? yet they don't seem to want to harm me either? Since I am a complete stranger/newfie to the gaming world, I have no idea of whether or not questions like these are 'appropriate.' I looked for 'hints' (cheats?) on the Internet, but found nothing.
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| Feb 3 2006 |
MARIOLE I suspect that the balloon things are just obstacles that can be shot down. The concrete posts open the large gates when shot down once. There are no actual cheats for Nanosaur 2, but you can put it on 'Kiddie Mode' if you go into settings. This will remove the majority of monsters. There is also a key that will level-skip you (it's found somewhere in the Readme file). Hope this helps a bit.
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| Mar 6 2006 |
PETER DAWSON I gather that the balloon like objects are like mines, and will blow up if you hit them. Fly into one and see what happens?
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| Nov 1 2006 |
RAY16 http://pangeasoft.net/nano2/cheats.html
(Version 2.0.1) | |
| Nov 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS game came w/ sister's imac. i transferred to my powerbook and it runs just fine in tiger. no probs here. it's a fun game that takes a minute to learn flight control. but if you have a bit more patience and coordination than the other reviewers, you should have fun. the only downside is that you must complete a level to save a game and the next level begins w/previous stats. all in all, an enjoyable challenge.
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| Oct 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Great game. Only trouble is this: The requested URL /nano2publicbeta.dmg was not found on this server.
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| Oct 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Stupid game. I hate it when I check the controls and there is no way to shoot the damn thing. Spacebar doesn't shoot anything. Most boring demo.
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 | Jan 16 2006 |
PSEUDOTASUKI Try holding it down for a second to charge it up. That's what the default weapon does.
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| Mar 6 2006 |
PETER DAWSON I've had this problem too, but I notice that you have to fly through the small rotating discs near the ground to arm yourself. You also have several different weapons, and you are probably trying to fire when you don't have any weapons selected. To change arms, press the left hand Apple key.
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| Oct 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Do they test these things BEFORE they release? Crashes in Tiger, same as comment below. Universal must not mean universal is it?
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| Oct 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Look into crash log. In some newer compilings, no more G3 support (even if app is fast enough). If you have an G3 - thre can be an incorreckt cpu type in the crash log.
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| Oct 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS You need to look into a spell checker.
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| Jul 18 2005 |
TOURNESOL Crashes constantly in Tiger. I can only play the adventure game - all others crash. The same happens when mission fails - the app quit.
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| Apr 16 2005 |
DANIEL An awesome Pangea creation. the graphics card on a G4 iMac does occationally have a few problems (Nvidea Gforce2 - i think...) Otherwise the gameplay is good. the view of the game has been thought of, and the kiddie mode feature helps me a lot. But those Laser droids are a drag. COOL!
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| Feb 15 2005 |
JEFF Incredibly unstable...AND will only play the "Adventure" game...when I try the others the game crashes. Also, crashes 2 or 3 times when launched initially...it finally starts but doesn't remember any of my set up prefs. I liked the demo a couple of months ago (of course none of these issues were happening then), and decided to buy the game. Between crashes, resetting my prefs, and such I think maybe I've spent 30 minutes actually playing this game. And by the way, it's not my machine...G4 Powerlogix 1.4mhz DP, 1.5 GB RAM
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| Dec 26 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Utterly F.A.B one of the best games I have played for ages.
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| Nov 29 2004 |
RAYNEAL You are unable to use 3rd party gampads I used the Logitech Rumblepad 2 and I was unable to fire or use jetpack
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| Sep 15 2004 |
ASMEURER What about an updated demo?
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| Sep 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Obviously, this is a question for the developer. Email the developer.
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| Sep 13 2004 |
JOHN This is a great game. It's fascinating flying around prehistoric landscapes and swooping to pick up the eggs. It's an easy-to-use flight simulator where you can just play kiddie mode and enjoy the scenery from the perspective of a pterodactly (or is it a pteranodon?) Even on kiddie mode you will need weapons to deal with the wandering robots on level 2. I'm stuck on level 2 because I can't find where to look for more eggs, and I'm sure there are more than 8. Hints would be welcome! Way to go Pangea!
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| Mar 14 2006 |
SGRAY81 Some of the eggs on level 2 are hard to find and to access because they are inside the electric grid. Before you attempt to enter the grid, fly along the perimiter and destroy any turrets you see. This will eliminate many problems you may have while gathering the last few eggs. There are two ways you can go about collecting the eggs. One is being very, very careful and flying inbetween the jolts. The other (it took me awhile to figure this out) is to destroy the grid. Each source of electricity can be taken out with two heat-seeking missiles. You should have well over a hundred missiles if you want to choose this method and still have a decent number when entering level 3.
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| Jul 4 2006 |
PETER DAWSON The eggs are pretty easy to find as they have a stream of light coming off them, pointing upwards. They are normally near a gun embankment, just to make it difficult. If you destroy the guns, using your heatseeker missiles(the ones that go around corners), you should be able to collect all the eggs easily. The eggs that are inside the big electricity grid can only safely be picked up by destroying the nearby power towers. Don't waste missiles destroying all of them, either, as every second tower only needs to be destroyed. Once the towers stop arcing, you'll be O.K. If you think level 2 is hard, just wait til you make it to level 3. | |
| Aug 23 2004 |
PHIL The real reason for the 1.0.7 update is to "deactivate" a large number of pirated activation codes.
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| Aug 23 2004 |
TELLUSMORE are you speaking from the knowledge of one who has been bitten by this update because you had a pirated copy? in other words, what are your sources for this bit of info you have posted?
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| Sep 15 2004 |
D9 Power to Pangea if this is the case. Mac users are never going to have games if a good portion of the players use pirated versions. I know it's never easy to pay for these games but companies, especially Pangea, are good enough to give us demos so we can at least know how the game plays. Pay up, guys!
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| Aug 3 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I love this game although I have gotten very far yet. Has anyone gotten 2 person play to work with 2 keyboards? Also, are there maps of the play levels available?
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| Jul 28 2004 |
NANCY I love this game, even if I do have to play it in kiddie mode, but can someone tell me why when the game is in kiddie mode, nothing fires at the good guy on the first level, but in the second level, those detestible R2D2-looking creatures fire at it with a vengeance. I would love to get to the third level before I die of old age (in real life), but I'm shot to pieces after about two eggs and I can go no further after about umpteen attempts. Also, the good guy's firing with the space bar doesn't shoot at anything.I am being shot to death with no defense except running away. Are there any cheats with this game? Help, someone, please.
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| Aug 26 2004 |
NANCY I am replying to my own previous question. Having been urged by Mr. Greenstone to read the directions carefully, I finally caught on. This is an awesome game, and I absolutely love it, except for level 3, which is dark and depressing. If I were the little pteryodactyl, though, I'd resign and get another job. No eggs could be worth what he has to go through.
(Version 1.0.7) | |
| Jun 12 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Having difficulty saving between levels 2 and 3--click saved games; screen goes dark; nothing--complete system freeze; have to hard restart to get anywhere. Running a stock iBook G4 1.07 Ghz w/768 Mb RAM OS 10.3.4. Though Mr. Greenwood of Pangea has been prompt in responding, his only suggestions have cost a bunch (RAM upgrade) or been very inconvenient (reinstall OS) Other ideas?
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| Jun 12 2004 |
ANONYMOUS you might give a brief description of what you *have* tried so far to fix this... like, have you: deleted pref's? fixed permissions? deleted caches? etc., etc.
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| Apr 29 2004 |
HOBY Fun..though repetative, and much less bizarre than the first Nanosaur. It's a bit hard to control as well. Pretty, though..
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| Apr 12 2004 |
LORD TRITON THIS IS BLOOMIN' BRILLIANT!!!! Full marks from me!^v^
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| Apr 9 2004 |
J I'm raising the ratings!
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| Apr 9 2004 |
DR. JAMES An update to my last review: Nanosaur 2 could be one of the best games I've EVER played.
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| Apr 9 2004 |
DR. JAMES This could be the best game I have ever played on my mac. If you did not like this game, you'd have to be a freakin PC user (Bill Gates is Satan!!!!!!!!).
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| Apr 2 2004 |
RICHARD Excellent gameplay with nice graphics. But after finishing the game after only three levels was a huge disappointment. I thought the shipped me demo version. Bugdom and other Pangea games usually had 10 levels. I suspected something immediately when the install was only 120mb. Pangea please post some add-ons.
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| Mar 21 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I went crazy when I tried the demo in 3D. I bought the game the same evening. I dont play much games at all but this one I just had to try. After the first 3 levels I felt "hmm... I'm getting better and better" and then the immediate response from the game was "Mission accomplished". Three levels? Is that all there is?
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| Mar 21 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Nice game. Just got 1.03 and it's awesome. Graphics are nice and it's pretty hard. Cool music.
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| Mar 17 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Its looks so cool form my friends computer! Too bad i have only a 400mhz imac, I cant play it!
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| Mar 16 2004 |
RICHARD RIPLEY This is a great game. I don't like that I am unable to save between levels but other than that the game is a lot of fun.
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| Mar 16 2004 |
ALEX This game is a lot of fun, and has a pace that casual gamers can enjoy. But like an old coin-op game, there's no way to save between levels. I emailed Pangea (Brian Greenstone replied) and he said "there is no technical way" to save mid-level. With levels that can take the better part of an hour, this is a true shortcoming. Only a hack or cheat can save you from the frustration this can induce!
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| Mar 16 2004 |
JOHNM114 Ahhhhh... Much better after the keyboard fix. Fun game! Runs great on my iBook 933. Nice to see a new game once in a while that doesn't have sys requirements that would stop a G5 dead in it's tracks. Thanks Pangea :)
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| Mar 16 2004 |
MELISSA Gah! Ok I feel like an idiot... Ignore the below comment... I guess I should read the pdf files eh? lol.. :P Perhaps you should include the "game controls" as a menu option with the game itself... that's normally where I look for them. Still a great game though :)
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| Mar 16 2004 |
MELISSA Damn trees! LOL... *splat*! ok... so how the hell do you play this game... Where are the instructions? If someone can give me a 411 on what keys do what that would greatly help... lol... Otherwise love the graphics and concept!
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| Mar 16 2004 |
HAWKEYE PIERCE I think you should look at the Prefs for the game. that should tell yo what to do.
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| Mar 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS It sure would be nice to have a very that'd run in OS X without requiring a G4
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| Mar 14 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Awesome Game
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| Mar 13 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Great game... very smooth graphics and good concept. Why can't more people develop visually stunning games like this for the mac?
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| Mar 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Because there is almost no money in it. The author of this game did most of it hisself and is self-publishing it looks like. No middle man = more profits (if any). Ported games have licensing fees from the original creator, the developer and so on, royalties, contract stipulations for payments if the game fails to reach a certain level and then there are distribution fees. Mac only or Mac first companies that make games seem to have really high quality, modest system requirements and game play e.g. Ambrosia and Pangea.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS ooops I meant earlier than 10.2.8... | |
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| Mar 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS The comment below was in response to the post that questioned why Nanosaur wont run on 10.2.8. It added it at this level for some reason...
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| Mar 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS The HID manager was altered from 10.2.8 to 10.3 and Nanosaur requires the new HID manager(which still has some issues).
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| Mar 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This game is so much fun, way more fun than the original. Gamepad support and 3D mods are great! Same with all of the multiplayer levels. I think that it is fun the way that whenever you hit the ground you die. All of you who don' t like it, just have to give it a few more minutes, then it will be fun. Great game!
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| Mar 11 2004 |
PORTHOS I remember the original Nanosaur on my first iMac in 1999. A fun game that was definately pick up and play. Nanosaur 2 starts off where the original ended.....the Eggs are safe untill some renegade dinosaurs come along and steal the eggs.......they conveniently leave one egg behind which hatches into your main charecter......a teradactyl with a jet pack. My first impressions in the 3D Anaglyph mode were, WOW......its like you are really there and VERY scary when you smash into the side of a massive dinosaur....sparks and particle effects fly out of your screen! The game seemed to crash in the Shutter Glasses option but It still recovered and I did not have to re-boot. Dont try this Option. The game ran very well in 1280x980 at 32 bit colour on my Geforce 4 Ti MDD. Overall, the game is still as pick up and play as its predecessor....a little difficult to get to grips with the controls on the mouse but if that fails you can always use the arrow keys! Cool graphics, great fun, well done ;)...again.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
NOOKSTER Graphics are decent enough, (can see the ground texture tiling though). Mouse control is hideous, death by branch is baffling, and the killer here is that the ground based play is gone, you can't even land to take a breather. Looks interesting though, fingers crossed for a major 2.5/3.0 revamp.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
DOUGLAS ENGELBART It crashes/freezes. Everything works great on my G4mdd1250 (768 MB, OSX.2.6) till the gameplay starts and the Nanosaur flies smoothly from the wormhole on the left to the landscape on the right but then, after only 5 seconds "gameplay", everything freezes. Not even Ambrosia's "Escape Pod" can quit it: I have to force-shutdown my G4. Tried it 3 times with different res-settings; that's enough. I never experienced such a shit. All other Games (UT'04, Neverwinter Nights, Vendetta, Tomb Raider etc) are running perfectly on my G4. | |
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| Mar 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I find it funny how bitter people get when their mahcines fall under the minimum system requirements for a game. Then they write up a bad review. You people are idiots... READ THE GAME'S SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS before commenting on how choppy the game is. If you have a crappy old Rage 128 in your G4 then the game won't work! If you have less than 32MB of VRAM then the game won't work. If you have less than 512MB RAM, then the game won't work.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
A MARTIN I agree with the anonymous comment above. Douglas also says he has OS X 10.2.6 when the minimum required is OS X 10.2.8...
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| Mar 11 2004 |
DOUGLAS ENGELBART Hi, friends; my Radeon 9000pro has 64MB. And why does Nano2 not run in 10.2.6? All other 3D games (I mentioned) do. You can read this about 10.2.8 and see that there is nothing new concerning OpenGL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120252&sessionID=anonymous|12483178&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a80%2f But you can read in these reviews how bad OSX.2.8 is compared to the perfectly stable OSX.2.6: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8564 Thank you.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
I'm not sure that is safe to assume changes in OpenGL are the reason for requiring 10.2.8. Many areas of the OS were updated in 10.2.8. You would really need to ask the developer why 10.2.8 is required. Regardless, I think it is a bit unfair to run the game on a machine which does not meet the requirements and then complain that the game performs poorly. For more on what changed in 10.2.8 see this page: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate_10_2_8.html
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Terrible game. I was a big fan of the first one, and this is a let-down. Play is choppy on my TiBook 1Ghz. Load time was pretty long for the level 1 demo. The controls are awkward. As others have said, it's too easy to die by accident just by clipping a branch. Also, although I prefer flying by mouse, shooting is still by keyboard, a disconnect for me. The "built-in" weapon is useless, and power-ups for better weapons are sometimes quite hard to get. The concept of flying in the game sounded cool, but in the end I missed the tactical flexibility offered by version one's "grounded" dinosaur. And the ultimate critics -- my kids -- were completely put off by the game. With Nanosaur 1, they played it endlessly. With this one, they were unimpressed.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
STUKA Well, the game runs fine in normal quality just fine on my 550Mhz tower (granted it has a radeon 9800 pro, 1.4GHz upgrade had to be sent in for rma) and even under high quality it still runs, just gets some jerks now and then. As for control, I can shoot just fine with my mouse, remember you have to hold the fire keep to do the scream. A for difficulty, I dont find the game hard at all. Mouse controlw orked fine for me, just like any flight sim. I can dip and dive around trees just fine. Getting hurt by a branch isnt a big deal imho. If you had wings made of thin skin and slammed into a tree branch, wouldent it hurt? The only downside is why this game has keyboard control issues and no other game out there does... I loved the 1st game, and this one is just as fun. Although it lacks different species of dinosaurs. But I think this is because its sized down for the demo.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
SHAITAN Runs superbly on my TiBook 800mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM. Very fun and addictive. Keyboard flight control works quite well.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
BRUISER Does the egg-collecting level in N64's Diddy Kong Racing ring any bells? :-) Runs very smoothly at 1280x854 at both high and normal settings on my albook 1.25ghz (64mb Radeon 9600 Mobility). Anaglyph mode works quite well in b/w. I may need to calibrate it better for colour. I'm just using $1 red/blue glasses though. Overall, I prefer to play without glasses - much more colourful. Very impressive graphics. I imagine splitscreen multiplayer would be pretty cramped. Pangea, please update it for LAN or even network play. The controls aren't too bad, but it seems far too easy to die if you clip a branch. Kinda takes the fun out of it. They need better configuration options. And there isn't much that attacks you when you're up high. I think I preferred the combat in Nanosaur 1. Overall, very impressive.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Runs great on my dual g4, even at highest res. Yay for Anaglyphic 3D! Yay for a BLACK AND WHITE anaglyph option! And a calibration screen! Yay! Yay for Dinosaurs! Yay for CTF! Yay! Boo for the keyboard not working! Any tips other than rebooting?
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| Mar 10 2004 |
INIK Fun fun fun! Runs pretty well at 1024x768 on a G4 1 ghz AiBook. Game is freakin' HARD!!! Watch out for trees and choose your weapons wisely! It'll take some doing to master this level, but the game looks super-duper-fun!
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| Mar 10 2004 |
DAVID Horrible controls. Mediocre graphics. RUNS SLOW ON A 1.25 GHZ G4 IMAC Don't even bother.
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| Mar 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS WTF are you taking about????? I think this is just a flame review.
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| May 17 2004 |
GEO I've read some reports that this game doesn't run so well on 1GHz G4 Powerbooks, and I can attest to the fact that it runs somewhat herky jerky on our 700 MHz G4 flat panel iMac. However, and oddly enough, it runs great on my dual processor 450 MHz G4, which technically is below the system requirements. Certainly, the fact that I have a Radeon video card has something to do with this. Anyway, the game is just awesome and a lot of fun to play. I've played it in 3-D mode and normal mode and it works great. The 3-D mode is so cool that I would think this is the future of gaming. It truly adds a new dimension (har har) to the game.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Confusing: is this the new Nanosaur: Hatchling demo? If it is, why doesn't the title say so?
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Yes, i think they have to made an update (same name) because the demo crashed on G3 systems (like mine). F10 starts an Tunneldemo for measureing FPS (higher than in real game, not so much to do for CPU). G3-867 , ATI 7000 PCI; 800x600, 32 Bit 53 FPS in Tunneldemo.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Mac update accidentally listed the beta demo as being publically available when it was only meant to be available to a small number of users for beta testing.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Amazingly smooth on my G5, even at full size on my 23" Cinema Display!
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| Mar 10 2004 |
TOMTOM sorry, mr greenstone... this game don´t run on g4, 500mhz??! - or at least bad, bad, bad...
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Get a better graphics card. It's quite playable on my G4/450 w/RADEON 9000. BTW is there only the one level in single-player mode? My Demo ran out too before I could figure that out.
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 | Mar 10 2004 |
BRIAN GREENSTONE Actually, it runs fine at 500mhz or even 400mhz as long as you have a really good 3D card to make up the difference. I ran it on a G4/400 with a Radeon 8500 and it was fine. The system requirements say iMac G4/700 because 700mhz is the slowest G4 iMac that exists, and only the G4 iMac's have Radeon / GeForce 3D chips.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
BRIAN GREENSTONE No, adventure mode has 3 levels, but in demo mode you can only play level 1.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
BOOMSHANKA yep - get a decent gfx card before writing your 'review'! Runs fine here - ati 9000
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| Mar 9 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Briefly leaked on purpose to generate a little hype. It is a great game though. My "demo" ran out today. So now I'm waiting until the 10th when it's released.
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| Mar 9 2004 |
ANONYMOUS chmod 750!!!
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| Mar 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS The file that was listed here was never meant to be downloaded by the public. The file that IMG Pro users were allowed to download is the beta demo that only IMG Pro users were suppose to be able to download. The reason why the file was pulled was not because of a bug but because it was a beta that wasn't suppose to be available to the public.
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| Mar 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Ghosting, to me, in color anaglyph mode; works fine in B&W mode. This was expected (to me; I work with anaglyphs as my day job) and the effect is far better in B&W mode. I had hoped for red/cyan anaglyph, not red/blue which gives an overall purple cast and the image is dimmer, but 3D effect works well. Was not able to test blue-line sync shutter glasses.
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| Mar 8 2004 |
ANONYMOUS The Nanosaur II demo is awsome! Great graphics with smooth framerates at 1024x768 on my 867 Mhz PowerBook. Even under battey power the game runs well. Nice job Pangea. Hope to buy the full game when its available. Flying low through the trees is a good rush. Kinda reminds me of snowboarding after a good dump of powder!
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| Mar 7 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I played the demo on my G4 450 MP, 1 gig of ram, radeon 8500, 10.2.8 system. It was VERY smooth, set at best graphics, at 1024 x 768 res, 32 bit. This will be a favorite, I'm sure. The graphics are excellent to say the least. Pangea seems to know how to get the most out of the Mac, it's good to see you don't need a cutting edge Mac to play high quality games. As for stability, I can't rate that yet. The demo works fine, but.....
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| Mar 6 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This is a lot better graphically than I thought that it would be. Plays great too!
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| Mar 6 2004 |
MARCUS CONGE Awesome game! All the way through and through! Sweet graphics! Excellent game play! Challenging! In my all time top 10 game list for sure! Worth every penny!
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| Mar 6 2004 |
CAP'N HECTOR Man, this game rocks. The control is crisp and believeable. The graphics are top notch, and the theme (dinos with guns) can't be beat. The only thing I don't like is that it appears that I can't get the full version yet
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| Mar 6 2004 |
ANONYMOUS They said the full version will be out on the 10th.
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| Mar 6 2004 |
MAC_DADDY1704 Wow! I have heard peter cohen talk about this game every week on your mac life for a month. It is great to finally play it! good job pangeasoft!
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