While the players in iOS App Store can purchase XCOM: Enemy Unknown with a 50% discount, Mac players can now in the offer Mac App Store find a novelty in the form of The Bureau - XCOM Declassified. This is another part of the XCOM game series, while this one was released in August of this year and arrived on the Mac with only about 4 months oneseasoning. The original title was handled by 2K Games, but the Mac version was taken on by TransGaming, Inc., which ported it to Mac. The game costs €30,99 and ranks among the more expensive titles.
The Bureau takes place in 1962, when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is at the head of the USA. Let's not forget the ongoing Cold War, but it is nowhere near as much of a threat to the US as an alien civilization that only Secret Agent William can defeat Carter and his unit known as The Bureau. Minithe low requirements indicate that only owners of newer machines will play the game, and therefore minithe OS X 10.7.5 operating system and an Intel Core i series processor meet the minimum requirements. Otherwise, it doesn't even have RAM or a graphics card. The game requires at least 4GB of RAM and an AMD HD4870 or nVidia 8800GT graphics card with 512MB of RAM. In order to install the game, you must reserve 15GB of free space on your disk.
However, the publisher recommends that players have the latest hardware possible, and therefore it is recommended that they have a newer graphics card with 1GB of memory and OS X 10.9 Mavericks. The game is not compatible with graphics cards from the Intel HD Graphics series, which is pre-installed on MacBookand Air, 13-inch MacBooku Pro without Retina display and on Mac mini. The publisher does not state whether the game is compatible with the Intel Iris graphics chip.
