First Xbox One backwards compatibility list includes 104 games
Xbox fans rejoiced at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) when the console maker announced that it would be adding backwards compatibility support to the Xbox One, allowing players to bring some of their favorite Xbox 360 games to the next-gen system without having to buy them all over again.
The new backwards compatibility update will finally be arriving on November 12, but there will only be a limited number games supported in the beginning. Today, Xbox revealed the first 104 games to get compatibility support, including (via Xbox.com):
| 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 |
Xbox also gave a disclaimer saying that “games and availability are subject to change,” which sounds a lot like region locking could be a potential issue for some of the games offered.
If you do not see some of your favorite Xbox 360 games listed, do not worry too much. Xbox plans on adding hundreds of other games in the coming months, and it assures users that “fans can submit what titles they’d like to see added via Xbox Feedback, and Xbox will work with game publishers to continue to release new titles regularly.”
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