Crashes on El Capitan - Known Unresolved Issue

I consider it highly unfortunate that for some reason the Mac App Store page for this game still offers no warning regarding the known issue (documented on the Aspyr Support pages) regarding frequent crashing of this game in El Capitan. For now, the only workaround they are able to suggest until and IF the game can or will be fixed is to revert back to Yosemite which I don’t consider to be worthwhile for a single game. So please don’t buy this if you have El Capitan without going to the Aspyr site or contacting them to verify first that it has been fixed if you are running El Capitan.

I hate to be negative about an Aspyr game because they normally are great ports and they do try to keep them working with new releases of OS X but this one is giving them trouble. El Capitan has been problematic for a number of games so be careful to check publisher support sites and be sure even after this much time anything that predates the release of El Capitan is working okay.

As for the game itself, it’s fun even if the multiplayer has a small number of people playing. Last I knew, the numbers may be small but you can get a game so take that info for whatever it is worth to you. Additionally, if you like offline multiplayer experiences with bots, you do actually need to be connected online but there is a fun practice mode that will let you just play with bots. I’ve done that and had a good time at it. So if you like that kind of thing, this does offer that.

Lastly, it does offer a very good and enjoyable single player campaign that to me is enough reason to buy and play it but I understand fully that for some folks the multiplayer is where it’s at and the biggest reason to buy a Call of Duty game. If that’s you, I’d recommend checking out the Modern Warfare releases of CoD Apsyr has ported, all of which have strong multiplayer still and good single player campaigns too.

So while it pains me to warn you not to buy this if you use El Capitan, that’s the way it is as of this writing and the App Store page currently does not warn about this. I’m sure that is an oversight, not deliberate but this is where user reviews can be helpful. I hope this one has been for you. I give this 2 stars because the game itself is fine on older versions of OS X it supports. I can’t give it more than that until and if they get it working on El Capitan at which point when I would not hesistate to give it 4 stars keeping in mind the points I made about it above.

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