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.
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
Zuma
Microsoft 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.