How to play VR Soccer '96 on Mac
Game summary
Throw on your finest footy kit and take to the pitch with the "virtual reality" simulation of VR SOCCER '96. This is European-style, lightning-fast football action for true aficionados of the world's most popular sport. You'll see realistic 3D, motion-captured athletes, and 22-player squads with up to eight skill levels per man. You'll compete in detailed, fully rendered stadiums while listening to colorful commentary from the humorous in-game announcer. The competition takes place in a wide variety of modes including Friendly, Practice, Arcade, Simulation, League, and Cup. You can watch the frantic action from six different camera angles, and there is an extensive options menu that allows for adjustments of game length, whether or not offsides is enabled, wind speed, and the like. With a choice of 44 international teams you can go head-to-head against the computer or a friend, or play in Two-Player Cooperative mode. With VR SOCCER '96 the game is truly afoot.
First released: Oct 1996
Play VR Soccer '96 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play VR Soccer '96 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).
VR Soccer '96 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 VR Soccer '96 like you would on any PC.
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