MBP Retina and playing FPS games

Hi,
I have always travelled and owned Mac, but have thought about buying a 14" Alienware or Razer blade to play fps on the down times I have while travelling. My question is, will a top spec MBP Retina15 with the 2 GB GT750M Nvidia card work to adequately play these (and similar) games? I don't know whether to use Parallels or Bootcamp; though Bootcamp worked well years ago when I needed PC. I have read the graphics cards Apple uses aren't good for gaming anyway so information on that would be good. My preference for mac is waning due to the constraints of gaming..but as I still have iPhone etc. it's a habit. The Alienware is good but heavy; the Razer good but ordinary screen.
The guts of it is if I can still get away with apple then great, but if the games will be slow and frames per second below par, then back to PC it is. Any thoughts?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
The dedicated GPU of the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is good. However, there's a difference between an Alienware and a MacBook Pro: the Alienware laptop is designed for games, and the MacBook Pro is designed for work.
It means that if the only purpose for getting a computer is to play games, I recommend you to go for the Alienware. However, if you like the Mac, you can go for the MacBook Pro, which is a really good computer looking at hardware, but you may need slightly lower settings and the MacBook Pro will overheat quickly, being dangerous for the Mac. Also, if you get the Mac, you need to install Windows with Boot Camp.

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