How to play Alien Outbreak 2: Invasion on Mac

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Game summary

Alien Outbreak 2: Invasion is a top down shooter where you will battle waves of enemies and use the power-ups they drop to aid yourself. Your movement allowance via mouse is horizontal and vertical to three quarters of the playing field.The power-ups are offensive or defensive in that you will get upgrades to weapons, secondary missile or explosive weapons and you will get shields and invisibility spheres. There are thirty two different types of enemy fighter vessels and eight different super-boss enemy garrisons. The enemies attack through nine waves with the tenth wave reserved for the boss battles. Enemy tactics include random shooting, homed projectiles and mines. The garrisons, naturally, can release fighter ships to aid in their attack.
First released: May 2005

Play Alien Outbreak 2: Invasion on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Alien Outbreak 2: Invasion on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Alien Outbreak 2: Invasion installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Alien Outbreak 2: Invasion like you would on any PC.
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