Macbook Pro Overheating in Windows

Hi Everyone,
I know this is a topic that has been discussed to death. But im having some very annoying issues with my mac, but i think my case is a bit unique. Now as we all know mac doesnt have alot of games available to it, so i have Windows 7 on another partition, installed using bootcamp. So i loaded up Age Of Empires 3 to play with my friends on LAN. Half way through the game the computer just shut off and went to sleep, the fans were on full and it was pretty toasty so i can only assume its a temp issue. I started the game again with a temperature monitoring software. Just as it cut out again i could see a reading of 97 degrees celsius. I understand under heavyload the temps will rise, they have when ive played on OSX but its never shut down on me.
So any thoughts?
My Mac is Macbook Pro 15" Late 2008 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB Ram

If you are using a case or "skin", don't. The Mac needs to dissipate heat through its case.
Windows is very resource-hungry especially for gaming, so you need all the cooling effectiveness you can get.
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