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1. XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE PLUS
2. XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE SERIES
3. XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE DOWNLOAD

Jedi Starfighter is a space combat game and those aren’t as much my jam because I get disoriented and die a lot but it sounds like it has its fans from what I’ve read online. Jennifer Hale is in it too, which is always a plus. However you choose to do it, just play this game because it’s great.

XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE DOWNLOAD

You can always download it if you’d prefer, too. There’s a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch port available (for now) as well but if you have this old disc lying around then you can toss it in whatever Xbox you have and access an improved version without paying anything extra. Jedi Academy is a third-person shooter with lightsaber combat and force powers. I may eventually mess with it though because it’d be surreal to play some classic Galactic Conquest in Battlefront with my little brother and some friends. I personally don’t have the patience to try to figure it out but there are ways to play Xbox Original titles online too on dedicated servers with a little bit of work. They both feature single-player portions and have local multiplayer.

We’ve since seen two new Battlefront releases and they’re both really solid experiences, especially the sequel after all of the updates, but the original two games have aged very well. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords There are some games though in both catalogs that are absolutely must-play games and that absolutely extends to the older Original Xbox system, too. My favorite game might be your least favorite, and vice-versa. Some of them might not even be worth playing but I’m glad they’re there.

XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE PLUS

It’s comforting knowing that next week’s new release is something I can play in twenty years on Microsoft’s latest console.įive hundred plus games is a lot of games and they’re not all incredible. Phil Spencer has made it clear that video game preservation is a priority for Xbox, which is great to hear since not only are there a lot of older games worth playing but also everything you’re playing now will eventually be old too.

Forty-two of them are games from the Xbox Original system’s game catalog and the rest of them are from the newer follow-up system, Xbox 360.

XBOX ONE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE SERIES

There are over five hundred games for Xbox Original and Xbox 360 that can be played on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. It’s sad to see and I’m desperately hoping the two companies reverse their decisions on how they’re handling their legacies and back catalogs after seeing the success and positive feedback Microsoft has experienced with their support and commitment to backward compatibility. That’s twenty one years worth of games that are just gone. PlayStation’s closure of the digital storefronts for PSP, Vita, and PlayStation 3 means that access to games published by Sony before November 15th, 2013 (PS4’s US release date) are restricted to people that have already purchased the games. Decades of video game history are only available in dimly lit corners of the Internet and for no valid reason at all. PlayStation and Nintendo have been involved in video games for over twenty-five and forty years respectively. Publishers and platform holders should either invest in and support emulation websites or more generalized preservation sites, like Internet Archive, if they’re not going to make their games available for digital purchase. There’s literally no reason why games shouldn’t be more widely available now. Publishers would have to create physical copies constantly to ensure the secondhand market couldn’t drive up prices and to ensure both scarcity and artificial scarcity didn’t affect availability of a game. It unfortunately made sense when games weren’t as available years after their release before the Internet and digital media in games. The arrival of digital media should have made games more accessible and even more widely available. It’s been disappointing to watch Nintendo and PlayStation disregard the importance of art preservation. This is just as cool now as it was in 2004 and no one will ever change my mind. Xbox has even shown how much better games can look, with a little work thrown in to increase resolutions and framerates, offering an experience even better than the original release could provide on the hardware available at the time. New hardware can minimize or even erase loading screens entirely, keeping the immersion going and reducing outside distractions. New knowledge and wisdom from life can provide different perspectives and insights in stories and character arcs. I love replaying games as the years go by. I don’t stop playing games because they’re not new anymore. Xbox’s commitment to backward compatibility is exciting for me. Memories can fade over time but backward compatibility can ensure classic video games remain available, years after their initial release. Everything gets old eventually, and the excitement of any new, exciting game will dwindle to gentler appreciation, unless it’s forgotten entirely.