How to play Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops on Mac

Game summary

Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops (officially abbreviated MGS SOP) was a 3D mobile game. It was released exclusively in Japan for the iPhone and Android smartphones on December 6, 2012. The game involved gameplay and re-enactment from the games Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Social Ops was similar to the Metal Gear Acid series in terms of character movement and its use of items and weapons via trading cards. The trading cards involved characters and enemies from Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Besides cards relating to the Metal Gear series, there were also cards related to Zone of the Enders, another series of games by Kojima Productions and collaboration cards with other GREE game series such as Cerberus Jihad and Dragon Collection. The game's official website was launched on August 30, 2012. On October 2013, Konami announced via the Social Ops website that the servers of the game would come to an end. The final mission was downloadable on October 31, 2013 til November 13, 2013. The game was then removed from being downloaded on December 13, 2013 and the service ended for good on January 31, 2014. All players unused credits from the "Metal Gear Solid Coin" bank was refunded.
First released: Dec 2012

Play Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops 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: Social Ops 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: Social Ops like you would on any PC.
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