After this playthrough, I wanted to discover if other games would run as well as Ground Zeroes did. I rescued Kaz and eventually Hideo Kojima himself, with the M1 chip treating the game as if it was nothing it couldn’t handle. It was a fantastic moment, as this was now running on a Mac, as if it was a native app on its own.
Granted, the game runs in a 1440×900 resolution and every graphical setting is on low, but it’s playable at roughly 45 FPS, and it’s not through a cloud service, just virtualization.
I had found that playing Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on PC was the best way of experiencing Big Boss’ adventure set in the early 80s, so I wanted to see if my test of using Steam to download the game could work on the M1 Mac mini.Īfter installing the beta version of Windows 10 for ARM devices through Parallels Desktop, I installed the game through Steam, just as any other PC running an Intel or AMD CPU would, and once I clicked on ‘Play’, there Snake was. When a fifth entry was finally confirmed in 2014, I waited incessantly for a demo once more. Ever since I played the very first Metal Gear Solid on its own demo disc back in 1998, I’ve been a follower of the series ever since.