How to play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard on Mac

Game summary

For the first time on iPhone and iPod touch, enjoy a new FPS experience that allows you to lead a team of elite soldiers! A global terrorist organization threatens the world balance. Only one team can prevent this: The Rainbow Unit! These colors never run. AN ICONIC BRAND FINALLY AVAILABLE ON THE APP STORE One of the most popular video game brands finally lands on your iPhone and iPod touch. AN ORIGINAL TITLE WITH EPIC MISSIONS Play 11 thrilling missions to defeat a dangerous and well-organized terrorist group. Play recreated and enriched levels based on the original Rainbow Six game like the Embassy Hostage Crisis, an oil platform assault or the infiltration of a rebel camp in Africa. Join a new Rainbow Unit complete with 3 new members, each with their own unique abilities like recon, demolition or stealth. EXPERIENCE CO-OP AND A RICH MULTIPLAYER MODE Join up to 2 friends and challenge the entire game together in Local and Online Co-op modes. You can also go head-to-head with the best unit leaders in the world on 5 exclusive and thrilling maps in Multiplayer mode - up to 10 players. THEY’LL NEVER SEE IT COMING Infiltrate enemy compounds without them ever knowing you’re there thanks to a wide range of state-of-the-art gadgets. Use snake cameras to spy around corners, silencers to keep your kills discreet and many more covert tools and weapon upgrades. BE THE LEADER OF AN ELITE UNIT An exclusive real-time tactical system for iPhone that lets you lead your teammates through each level. Order them to cover, shoot or use grenades to clear rooms before an assault!
First released: Mar 2011

Play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard 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).

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard 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 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard like you would on any PC.
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