How to play Portal 2 - The Final Hours on Mac

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Free Bonus Chapter AddedThe Final Hours of Portal 2 has been updated with a chapter on the making of the "Peer Review" DLC and the first details on the future of Portal 2! About the Digital Book The Final Hours of Portal 2 takes you deep within the top-secret offices of Valve for an unvarnished look at the creative process behind the new video game Portal 2. Journalist Geoff Keighley was granted unprecedented “fly on the wall” access to Valve to create this staggering 15,000 word multimedia experience. From the hush-hush Portal prequel that was shelved to the last minute scramble to complete the game’s story, The Final Hours of Portal 2 is a gripping and dramatic story brought to life by exclusive photos, videos, interviews, interactive experiences, and other surprises. Key features: In The Final Hours of Portal 2 Valve reveals: That Portal 2 actually began as a prequel to the first game without portals or GLaDOS. The Directed Design Experiments created after Half-Life 2: Episode 2, including video of a never-before-disclosed project, Two Bots, One Wrench. How the story of Portal 2 evolved during development. See images and read surprising details. How it worked with Jonathan Coulton to create "Want You Gone," the closing song to the game. Interactive Highlights Include: Play with portals in an interactive diagram where you learn how portals work. 360 degree panorama photos of the Valve office and design labs. Listen to the songs that inspired the Portal 2 development team. Hear Jonathan Coulton's Portal 2 song in various stages of development. Puppet Wheatley in an interactive experience Destroy Aperture Science by wiping your fingers over the screen. Interact with fans and voice your opinion via polls and a feedback form.About the GamePortal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal ov
First released: May 2011

Play Portal 2 - The Final Hours on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Portal 2 - The Final Hours 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).

Portal 2 - The Final Hours 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 Portal 2 - The Final Hours like you would on any PC.
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