Some of the best games you’ll be playing on your Xbox One over holidays were released last generation.
Microsoft on Monday revealed the first 104 Xbox 360 games that will be playable on the Xbox One using the new system’s backwards compatability mode. Xbox One Backwards Compatibility, as the feature is officially named, was announced at E3 last June, and instantly gives the Xbox One a game library that Sony’s PS4 would be lucky to match (putting aside PlayStation Now, Sony’s service that lets players stream older titles to their PS4 for a fee). The feature launches this Thursday.
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Digital Xbox 360 games linked to your Xbox Live account can merely be downloaded and then played on the Xbox One, while disc-based based need to be inserted into the system to trigger the necessary files to download.
The full list of compatible Xbox 360 games:
A Kingdom for Keflings Lode Runner™ A World of Keflings LUMINES LIVE! Alien Hominid HD Mass Effect™ Assassin’s Creed II Metal Slug 3 Asteroids & Deluxe Metal Slug XX Banjo Kazooie®: Nuts & Bolts Might & Magic Clash of Heroes™ Banjo-Kazooie® Mirror’s Edge™ Banjo-Tooie® Missile Command BattleBlock Theater Monday Night Combat Bejeweled 2 Monkey Island: Special Edition Bellator: MMA Onslaught Monkey Island 2: Special Edition Beyond Good & Evil HD Ms. Splosion Man™ Blood of the Werewolf Mutant Blobs Attack!!! BloodRayne: Betrayal N+ Borderlands NBA JAM: On Fire Edition Call of Juarez® Gunslinger NiGHTS into dreams… Castle Crashers Operation Flashpoint™: Dragon Rising CastleStorm Pac-Man: Championship Edition™ Centipede & Millipede Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX+ Condemned: Criminal Origins Perfect Dark Crazy Taxi™ Perfect Dark Zero Deadliest Warrior: Legends Phantom Breaker:Battle Grounds Defense Grid: The Awakening Pinball FX™ DiRT 3 Plants vs. Zombies DiRT Showdown Prince of Persia Discs of Tron Putty Squad Doom Rayman 3 HD Doom II R-Type Dimensions™ Dungeon Siege III Sacred Citadel Earthworm Jim HD Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. Fable II Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe Fallout 3 Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World Feeding Frenzy Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown Shadow Complex Gears of War Sonic CD Gears of War 2 Sonic The Hedgehog Gears of War 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Gears of War: Judgment Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Golden Axe™ Super Meat Boy Halo: Spartan Assault Supreme Commander 2 Hardwood Backgammon® Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas Hardwood Hearts® Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas 2 Hardwood Spades® South Park: The Stick of Truth™ Heavy Weapon Torchlight Hexic HD Toy Soldiers Ikaruga Toy Soldiers: Cold War Jetpac Refuelled Tron: Evolution Joy Ride Turbo Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Just Cause 2 Viva Piñata Kameo™: Elements of Power Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Wolfenstein 3D LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga ZumaMicrosoft says that additional games, including Halo Reach and BioShock, will be added beginning in December.
By leveraging the Xbox 360’s deep library, it has a better chance of convincing Xbox 360 gamers who haven’t yet bought an Xbox One or PS4 that they can still play some of their old favorites without having to keep another console plugged into the TV.