How to play UFO: Extraterrestrials - Gold Edition on Mac
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Game summary
UFO: Extraterrestrials GOLD is a new GOLD edition which includes a number of changes and improvements giving a player a new look on the classic game: new maps, possibility to hire soldiers, globe UFO swarms and configurability.
UFO: Extraterrestrials GOLD represents fiction in which the human race faces a threat from space, aimed to be a spiritual sequel developed by Chaos Concept. The game picks up where the original left off, incorporating a twist of the aliens defeating Earth. The game is set on a newly colonized planet named Esperanza, where the alien threat has just arrived.
New items to research and produce:
Proximity Grenades.
Personal Energetic Shields.
Jetpacks.
Autoguided Rocket Launcher with ballistic ammo.
Cyborg Battlearmor.
Hydraulic Suite and many others.
Other New Features.
Radar map in missons and a combat log.
Possibility to hire soldiers.
Cooperating UFO swarms on globe.
Performance optimizations.
First released: Feb 2010
Play UFO: Extraterrestrials - Gold Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play UFO: Extraterrestrials - Gold 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).
UFO: Extraterrestrials - Gold 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 UFO: Extraterrestrials - Gold Edition like you would on any PC.
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