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Microsoft Xbox announces the last downward compatible games

More than two years ago, Microsoft’s long-running downward compatibility plan stopped. The service updates the original Xbox and Xbox 360 games to enable them to run on Xbox One. 

With the release of the new generation of Xbox Series X|S series, Microsoft launched the last downward compatible game. Xbox 20th Anniversary Celebration, Microsoft re-introduced its downward compatibility plan.

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Moreover, there are 76 games in total, including “Max Payne” and “FEAR” series, “Time Separation 2” and “Time Separation: A Perfect Future” “Dead or Alive Ultimate Edition”, “Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2”, etc., and even “Extreme Skateboard 2”.

When playing these games on Xbox Series X|S, it will support automatic HDR on compatible monitors, and the original resolution of Xbox games will also be improved. Xbox One is 2 times, Xbox Series S is 3 times, and Xbox Series X and Xbox One X are 4 times.

In addition, FPS Boost will also support 37 backward compatible games, including Fallout: New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls 4: Annihilation, Dragon Age: Origins, etc. The frame rate can be doubled to 60 frames. This downward compatibility will be the last time.

Peggy Lo, head of the Xbox Compatibility Program, said: “Although we continue to focus on preserving and enhancing the art form of the game, due to licensing, legal and technical restrictions, we have reached the limit of ability. Thank you for participating in this journey with us.”

List of 76 games:

  • 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

  • Aces of the Galaxy

  • Advent Rising

  • Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom

  • Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Make the Grade

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender-The Burning Earth

  • Bankshot Billiards 2

  • Beautiful Katamari

  • Binary Domain

  • Black College Football Xperience: Doug Williams Ed

  • Cloning Clyde

  • Conan

  • Darwinia+

  • Dead or Alive Ultimate

  • Dead or Alive 3

  • Dead or Alive 4

  • Death by Cube

  • Disney Universe

  • Disney’s Chicken Little

  • Elements of Destruction

  • FEAR

  • FEAR 2: Project Origin

  • FEAR 3

  • FEAR Files

  • The First Templar

  • Gladius

  • Gunvalkyrie

  • Islands of Wakfu

  • Lego Lord of the Rings

  • Manhunt

  • Max Payne

  • Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

  • Max Payne 3

  • Mini Ninjas

  • Mortal Kombat

  • Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe

  • MX vs ATV Alive

  • MX vs ATV Untamed

  • Nier

  • Novadrome

  • Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee

  • Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad

  • Otogi: Myth of Demons

  • Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors

  • The Outfit

  • Outpost Kaloki X

  • Quake Arena Arcade

  • RAW-Realms of Ancient War

  • Red Dead Revolver

  • Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

  • Ridge Racer 6

  • Rio

  • Risen

  • Risen 2: Dark Waters

  • Rock of Ages

  • Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

  • Scramble

  • Screwjumper!

  • Secret Weapons Over Normandy

  • Skate 2

  • SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam!

  • SpongeBob’s Truth or Square

  • Star Wars Starfighter Special Edition

  • Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith

  • Star Wars The Clone Wars

  • Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

  • Switchball

  • Thrillville

  • Thrillville: Off the Rails

  • Time Pilot

  • TimeSplitters 2

  • TimeSplitters: Future Perfect

  • Toy Story Mania

  • Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment

  • Viva Pinata: Party Animals

  • Warlords


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