How to play Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Ultimatum Edition on Mac

Game summary

Ultimatum Edition Includes: Special-Ops Digital Watch. Soft Touch Collector Box. 24 page Splinter Cell Echoes Graphic Novel. Single and multiplayer coop maps: Dead Coast and Billionaire's Yacht. Unlockable gear: 2 pieces of gear: Gold goggles and Ghost Boots 1 suit: Upper Echelon Suit A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers have had enough of US military occupation all over the world and initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist - a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. interests. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, top-of-the-line-gadgets, deadly combat abilities and an elite team known as the 4th Echelon, Sam Fisher holds nothing back to get the job done through whatever means necessary to stop the Blacklist countdown before it reaches zero. Sam is back in his tactical suit and goggles, and he’s more lethal and agile than ever. Granted the freedom to do whatever it takes to stop the Blacklist, Sam flies from exotic locales to U.S. cities as he races against the clock to find out who’s behind this devastating threat.
First released: Dec 2013

Play Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Ultimatum Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Ultimatum Edition 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 Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Ultimatum Edition 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 Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Ultimatum Edition like you would on any PC.
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