How to play Natural Selection on Mac
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Game summary
Natural Selection is a change of the video game Half-Life. The concept is a mix of first-person shooter and real-time strategy game genres. The game was made by Charlie "Flayra" Cleveland, who later founded the company Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Natural Selection v1 was publicly released on Halloween 2002 for the first time and is now on version 3.2. Natural Selection 2 was released in autumn 2012.
First released: Oct 2002
Play Natural Selection on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Natural Selection 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).
Natural Selection 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 Natural Selection like you would on any PC.
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