My gaming PC has a 6800 series gpu in it and it can play both of those games at very high quality.
Seeing as how the MBP has a gpu 2 families above mine, I'm assuming it should be able to play those two games, if not more of the newer ones at a decent graphics level/resolution.
Oh it will run games just fine. Even the latest of the latest.... It's just that the 256MB MBPs ones are "better" performers... The screen resolution isn't much for a 8600GT to output...
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