How to play Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition on Mac

Game summary

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition includes the full base game, DLC 1 Awakening for Black Ops III, plus the Nuk3town Multiplayer Map. Call of Duty: Black Ops III combines three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies, providing fans with the deepest and most ambitious Call of Duty ever. Awakening features four Multiplayer maps and one Zombies map. Multiplayer showcases Gauntlet, Splash, Rise, and Skyjacked, a reimagined version of a fan-favorite Black Ops II Multiplayer Map Hijacked. Zombies introduces Der Eisendrache, the first chapter of Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Zombies DLC adventure that takes players on an epic journey with the Origin characters Richtofen, Nikolai, Takeo, and Dempsey.
First released: Nov 2015

Play Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition 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).

Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition 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 Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition like you would on any PC.
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