Playing Computer games on a Macbook

I own a MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 1GB of RAM, a 2.0 GHz Processor, and a GMA graphics card. Will it be able to handle graphic intense games, like Quake, Doom, Halo? Thank you!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) Black w/ 2GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive

Well - most likely not on the OSX side. If you like to play games I suggest installing Windows XP using bootcamp and playing your 3D games there. Windows utilizes the GMA950 better than OSX and you also got the directX 9.0c to help you out.
I've played games like Call of Duty (original) on highest settings with no problems - mind you I got 2 Gb of RAM.
I also played HalfLife2 on medium to low settings and got great FPS - but once in a while the game crashed - dunno why.
I heard that Sims2 is very much playable on Windows XP Macbook - but I can't tell you about Doom3 or Halo. Search Youtube and see if someone has done it. I don't suppose that DOOM3 would play very well - that game is very GPU intensive - but you can give it a try

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I like most of the games I have readed but since 4 years ago I enjoy more and more 'special games', specialy turn-based WEGO (as you always have the time to make another turn, maybe not today but sure tomorrow).
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Dominions 3.
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Maybe I should've said
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