"Mark of the Ninja" does not work under VmWare Fusion 5

I installed "Mark of the Ninja" in an XP image under VmWare Fusion 5, hoping the game would have been "simple enough" to run. The image has 4 cores and 4GB of RAM, so plenty of resources. Unfortunately, it looks like it will just crash XP soon after launch. Turning 3D support off, the game doesn't even start. Ah well, i'll have to dig out some old laptop...