How to play Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty on Mac

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Game summary

This third-person stealth action game, sequel to Metal Gear Solid (1998), follows Solid Snake and Otacon through various incidents as they strive to destroy nuclear terror threats around the world. When the president of the United States is captured inside the oil cleanup facility Big Shell, a rookie agent infiltrates the facility while the player is forced to doubt their perception of trust, knowledge and reality.
First released: Nov 2001

Play Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 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).

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 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 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty like you would on any PC.
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