How to play Pool Break 3D Billiards 8 Ball, 9 Ball, Snooker on Mac

Game summary

Pool Break is a suite of games featuring several variations of 3D Pool, Billiards, Snooker, and the popular Crokinole and Carrom board games. The 3D graphics are spectacular and the physics are realistic and accurate. Whether you play against the computer or against other players online, the action is smooth and fast paced! Ready for some realistic pool experience? With a ton of games and lots of fast paced action, Pool Break will keep the most seasoned pro playing well into the night. Its crisp 3D graphics, accurate physics and linear shot guides help you line up your shot, modify the shooting angle, and see where your shot is going to land, making it easy to position yourself up for your next move. If you've ever thought about playing pool on a real table, Pool Break is the perfect way to try a variety of games and pick your favorite. Use Pool Break as a recreational game, or use its dead-on, real life rendering and geometry to help improve your skills for league night. With place-and-shoot and pool drill games, this is the perfect app for tweaking your game, and practicing those tricky shots that require nerves of steel. So what do you get with this app? Over a dozen Pool, Billiard and Snooker games, as well as two popular board games Carrom and Crokinole that are played with discs. In other words - enough cue-games to keep you busy for a long time. Feeling competitive? Choose head to head action with the pass-n-play feature, even more intense competition against the computer, or go online for some cross-platform action with other players. With 4 different difficulty levels to choose from, you'll go from a novice to a seasoned professional in no time. Don't get Snookered! Download Pool Break now rack up some serious fun! It's your break!
First released: Mar 2011

Play Pool Break 3D Billiards 8 Ball, 9 Ball, Snooker on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Pool Break 3D Billiards 8 Ball, 9 Ball, Snooker 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).

Pool Break 3D Billiards 8 Ball, 9 Ball, Snooker 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 Pool Break 3D Billiards 8 Ball, 9 Ball, Snooker like you would on any PC.
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