How to play Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Explorer Edition on Mac

Game summary

Exclusive to Europe, Australia and New Zealand is the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Explorer Edition. It includes the Nathan Drake Statue, belt buckle, and ring/necklace from the North American Collector's Edition. Instead of including the "Steelbook" case packaging from the Collector's Edition, the Explorer Edition includes the Special Edition and its DLC, as well as all the pre-order bonuses. The "Traveling Chest" is replaced by the larger "Uncharted Wooden Travel Case", which has space for 19 PlayStation 3 games. A 3D lenticular image is also included. RARE Exclusive Deluxe Collector's Edition. Includes special antique style wooden travel case, which can store up to 19 PS3 games! - Also includes replica of Nathan Drake's belt buckle and necklace . - Statue & Special journal. - In-game content.
First released: Nov 2011

Play Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Explorer Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Explorer 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).

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Explorer 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 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Explorer Edition like you would on any PC.
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