Love it or hate it, backward compatibility is here to stay and ahead of it’s full launch later this week, Mike Ybarra has confirmed the first set of Xbox 360 titles which you’ll be able to play on Xbox One!
Arriving as part of the New Xbox One Experience on Nov 12th 2015, Xbox One Backward Compatibility will include some awesome titles like Assassin’s Creed II, Borderlands and the complete Gears of War catalogue, with more favourites such as Bioshock, Skate 3 and the original Black Ops arriving at a later date.
So whether you’re a newcomer to the world of Xbox, or an older 360 gamer who has already upgraded to Xbox One, there’s going to be a ton more games suddenly coming your way…some of which you’ve played before, but others that may just tempt you in to a digital purchase.
Mike Ybarra, Director of Program Management for Xbox has confirmed the first 104 titles to be:
A Kingdom for Keflings
A World of Keflings
Alien Hominid HD
Assassin’s Creed II
Asteroids & Deluxe
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Banjo-Tooie
BattleBlock Theater
Bejeweled 2
Bellator: MMA Onslaught
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Blood of the Werewolf
BloodRayne: Betrayal
Borderlands
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Castle Crashers
CastleStorm
Centipede & Millipede
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Crazy Taxi
Deadliest Warrior: Legends
Defense Grid: The Awakening
DiRT 3
DiRT Showdown
Discs of Tron
Doom
Doom II
Dungeon Siege III
Earthworm Jim HD
Fable II
Fallout 3
Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown
Gears of War
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 3
Gears of War: Judgment
Golden Axe
Halo: Spartan Assault
Hardwood Backgammon
Hardwood Hearts
Hardwood Spades
Heavy Weapon
Hexic HD
Ikaruga
Jetpac Refuelled
Joy Ride Turbo
Just Cause 2
Kameo: Elements of Power
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Lode Runner
LUMINES LIVE!
Mass Effect
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug XX
Might & Magic Clash of Heroes
Mirror’s Edge
Missile Command
Monday Night Combat
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition
Monkey Island: Special Edition
Ms. Splosion Man
Mutant Blobs Attack!!!
N+
NBA JAM: On Fire Edition
NiGHTS into dreams…
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Pac-Man: Championship Edition
Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX+
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds
Pinball FX
Plants vs. Zombies
Prince of Persia
Putty Squad
R-Type Dimensions
Rayman 3 HD
Sacred Citadel
Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe
Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World
Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage
Shadow Complex
Sonic CD
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Super Meat Boy
Supreme Commander 2
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Torchlight
Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers: Cold War
Tron: Evolution
Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon
Viva Piñata
Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise
Wolfenstein 3D
Zuma
So, which of the list above are you looking forward to playing? What would you like to see included next? Let us know in the comments below.
Is it strange that only the first Condemned is on the list? I know it’s up to the publisher which strikes me as odd since they’re both Sega.
Being held back for a future wave? That said, and it’s been a while since I played either, wasn’t the first one a whole lot better than the second?
Yes the first one was pants-crappingly awesome. I never finished the second and if it’s not BC then I never will ahhh!!! Seriously though that does make sense about holding it back. Any idea why they are doing it this way? Wouldn’t you want to say something like “Here’s the catalog of 360 games, it’s 90% of them all. Now go buy an Xbox One for the holidays!”
Yeh, I thought the first was better!
I’m guessing that they are holding back just so that the whole thing can be hyped to the nth degree again at a later date. I can see your idea working though – would sell them a hell load of consoles over this holiday period. But then perhaps they are pinning hopes on Ms Croft to sell a ton too!
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