During Monday’s 20th anniversary celebration, Microsoft was able to announce that they are making over 70 games from Xbox 360 and Xbox backwards compatible with Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S. This opens up the possibility of enjoying the older games on the newer consoles with new improvements.
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All the games are available via the online stores on the consoles, but if you have the old disks lying around, you can still use them. Note that the Xbox Series S does not have a disk drive, so in that case you must own the game digitally via the Xbox Store.
In addition, over 30 of the games already available via backward compatibility will have better frame rates. The Gears of War series, Fable, Sonic Generations and Kameo are some of the most high-profile titles mentioned.
These are the games that are now added to the backward compatibility list:
Xbox 360
- 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
- Aces of the Galaxy
- Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: Make the Grade
- Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth
- Bankshot Billiards 2
- Beautiful Katamari
- Binary Domain
- Black College Football: BCFX The Experience
- Cloning Clyde
- Conan
- Darwinia+
- Dead or Alive 4
- Death by Cube
- Disney Universe
- Elements of Destruction
- FEAR
- FEAR 2: Project Origin
- FEAR 3
- FEAR Files
- The First Templar
- Islands of Wakfu
- Lego: Lord of the Rings
- Max Payne 3
- Mini Ninjas
- Mortal Kombat 9
- Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
- MX vs. ATV Alive
- MX vs. ATV Untamed
- Deny
- Novadrome
- Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
- The Outfit
- Outpost Kaloki X
- Quake Arena Arcade
- RAW: Realms of Ancient War
- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
- Ridge Racer 6
- Rio
- Risen
- Risen 2: Dark Waters
- Rock of Ages
- Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
- Scramble
- Screwjumper!
- Skate 2
- Spongebob SquarePants: Underpants Slam!
- Spongebob: Truth or Square
- Switchball
- Thrillville: Off the Rails
- Time Pilot
- Toy Story Mania!
- Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
- Viva Piñata: Party Animals
- Warlords
Xbox:
- Advent Rising
- Arx Fatalis
- Dead or Alive 1 Ultimate
- Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate
- Dead or Alive 3
- Disney’s Chicken Little
- Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
- Gladius
- Gunvalkyrie
- Manhunt
- Max Payne 1
- Max Payne 2
- Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee
- Otogi: Myth of Demons
- Otogi 2: Imoortal Warriors
- Red Dead Revolver
- Secret Weapons Over Normandy
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast
- Star Wars: Starfighter – Special Edition
- Thrillville
- TimeSplitters 2
- TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Xbox began to push backwards compatibility in earnest during the previous console generation with Xbox One, and has since then constantly filled the list with several old games. In many of the cases, the games have got better resolution and frame rate, and even the launch of the Xbox Series X / S last year a separate automatic HDR functionality was also available for the old games.
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