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According to this post on the AppleInsider forums it sounds promising:

From some I’ve the reports I’ve seen, Apple at the urging of Valve and others is really starting to get serious about their OpenGL implementation. With the drivers in development some willing to break the NDA have reported scores up to 3 times higher in OpenGL Viewer and significantly higher game performance on all cards.

If you played Nintendo growing up and you are my age you probably played at least one Mega Man game. Mega Man 2 is the I played a lot of growing up and while it was really hard I still had a good time.

In today’s gaming world that kind of difficulty just wouldn’t fly. Games are much longer afairs today and require more time to complete. If a game like Metroid Prime was as brutally difficult there is no way I’d ever finish it. I’d be so frustrated that I had just lost an hour’s worth of play time I’d soon quit playing.

So when I heard Capcom was going to be creating a new Mega Man AND was going to be doing it the same 8 bit style Mega Man 2 was done in I was pretty excited. When I downloaded the game off of the Wii shop channel and started it up I couldn’t believe how well Capcom captured the feel of the original games. The sound effects, music and animations were all just right.

Then I realized that after no less than six attempts I hadn’t even made it past the first checkpoint in the Concrete Man stage. After twenty minutes I had just made it to the end, to Concrete Man himself, only to die immediately.

But I loved every minute of it. I haven’t had as much time as I would like playing the game but the $10 price is well worth it. If you liked any of the original 8 bit versions of the game you owe it to yourself to play this game.

Well one of Brawl’s major components is online play and all to often I find myself playing with someone and there is a lot of lag. While I wanted to blame Nintendo completely at first I thought I should at least verify that the issue isn’t on my end first.

I set out doing this by getting my Wii connected to the internet through my usual wireless setup and thing sending a ping request to it from my Linux box. My wireless router is less than five feet from my console and yet I’d see at minimum a 2ms delay. 2ms doesn’t seem like much until you ping my laptop and get .600 ms over the same wireless connection.

I kept pinging the Wii while playing a round of Brawl online and I found that at times, the delay *just on my network* would go as high as 111ms! Now, the Wii might be doing packet prioritization but I doubt it. Anyway, 111ms is quite a bit higher than I would typically get to any other web site I usually visit. The round trip time to yahoo.com is around 64ms. If I’m seeing typical times to Nintendo’s servers and then I add in that my Wii’s wireless is contributing between 2-30ms (take out m y worse case) it’s easy to see why some Brawl games suffer from a lot of lag.

To combat this issue, I picked up a LAN adapter from Best Buy. When using the lan adapter the delay still isn’t great, but it is at least rock solid at 2-3ms no matter what is going on. This is a huge improvement in my eyes and if a person is at all serious about online play with the Wii, a lan adapter is key.

The holiday season added a number of games to our collection. I can no longer call it “my” collection as now there is a game that was purchased specifically for my wife. It is officially our game collection. Anyway, I’ve been filling my time by switching off between Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy. Both are excellent games.

When I’m not playing Wii I’m probably playing DS. I recently finished up The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and picked up Mario Kart DS. Mario Kart DS is an older game but is highly rated.

So I picked up Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii the other day because the idea of online play got the best of me, and because I heard my brother had gotten it for himself and I figured we’d be able to against each other over the Internet, just like we used to do when we lived at home.

I promptly got to work getting to know the game. I’ve never played a Mario Strikers game before so the whole idea is new to me. After a bit of learning how to play and getting used to the controls I went ahead and got online to get my first taste of what it’s all about. Well, I found out that I really stink and it took me a number of matches before I found someone at my level of play. I also learned something about myself. I’m really competitive and I hate being dead last on the charts.

Another thing I discovered is that online play without being able to communicate at all with the other player really makes the whole thing seem rather cold and hostile. There is something about playing someone who is sitting next you, even if you’re getting beat repeatedly that makes it fun because you can still marvel at their great plays or moves and then take a break from it all and drink a beer. There have been times when I’ve gotten pummeled where I’d like to be able to congratulate them, tell them I liked their playing style or ask for some tips.

That said, the game is still a ton of fun even if the chaos is over the top.

We (my brother-in-law and I) were able put a number of hours on it, along with the projector, playing a number of games including Resident Evil 4 and Super Swing Golf. My short review is, RE4 is a keeper, Super Swing Golf is hardly a renter. I usually stick to the first party Nintendo games so RE4 is a bit of a departure for me. Although I wasn’t able to put a lot of time into it, it was fun.