Top 10 App Store Games Mac App Store

Your iPhone can look like a NookPhone from Animal Crossing with these icons.

You can choose from one of four different character classes, each with unique abilities, and in a nod to role playing games, you can develop special abilities by assigning skill points that you gain through experience.

Borderlands 2 also features a weapons randomizing system that produces an almost unlimited number of variations on handguns, rifles, grenades and other weapons.

Add to that fantastic cooperative multiplayer gameplay and downloadable content to extend the game, and youve got a potent mix that will keep you coming back again and again.

Top 10 App Store Games Mac App Store

Our recommendation is to go for the Steam version so you can get cross-platform multiplayer - Mac App Store downloaders are relegated to Mac-to-Mac play only through Game Center.

The game struck gold for its detailed storyline involving Rapture, a Randian utopia far beneath the surface of the ocean, run amuck.

A survival horror game, BioShock 2 puts you in the role of a Big Daddy - a genetically altered human encased in a heavily armored diving suit.

Rapture is filled with psychotic and dangerous people who have been altered by a substance that can record their genes, granting them superhuman powers (and, unfortunately, driving them mad).

BioShock 2 is the sequel to the first BioShock, and if you havent picked that one up, its definitely worth your time as well, especially at 19.99 price.

Both should wet your whistle until BioShock Infinite shows up for the Mac this summer.

Sure, its been around for a while, but this game stands up to the test of time: its a phenomenal FPS that puts you in the role of U.S.

Marines and British SAS commandos as you travel to the U.K, the Middle East, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine on the hunt for international terrorists who plan to detonate a nuclear warhead.

It also sports great multiplayer capabilities with plenty of challenges, unlockable perks at matchmaking to make sure youre paired with players of similar abilities.

The game pits two opposing teams against each other in a variety of different modes: Capture the Flag, Control Point, Territorial Control, King of the Hill and more.

The play maps vary from the ridiculous to the sublime, and you can choose from nine different player classes, some with offensive capabilities (like the Scout), some better on defense (like the Heavy), and some best for support (such as the Medic).

And it used to be you had to pay for TF2, but Valve made it free to play in 2011.

The company makes money through in-app purchases players make to buy unique equipment and character outfits.).

Valve reworked CS as its own independent game using the Source engine (hence the name).

Its a team-based first person shooter that emphasizes accomplishing objectives - kill your opponents, rescue hostages and so on.

What makes it a bit different than the rest is that when youre shot, you stay dead until the end of the round - no instant respawning.

Last year Valve released Counter Strike: Global Offensive (seen above), so if youve gotten tired of the original, you can immerse yourself in a new game that features updated content from the original, along with new maps, characters and weapons.

Not freemium - there are no in-app purchases you need to make to keep playing.

Free. The game traps you in a mysterious pyramid in the Yucatan that threatens the very survival of the Earth.

You must descend into its innermost recesses, battling fearsome monsters to save the world.

Its graphics are quaint and primitive, its interface is awkward by modern standards, but it stands out as a period piece worthy of remembering and enjoying.

And its free, so you have nothing to lose but some download bandwidth.

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