Games That Are Backwards Compatible Xbox One

(Pocket-lint) - The Xbox Serial X and Series S are both fully backward compatible with nigh-on every game that runs on Xbox One, and that means they can equally play Xbox 360 and original Xbox games too.

That'due south a huge incentive for gamers who choose Xbox. Not simply do they get the latest Xbox Ane and Xbox Serial 10/S games to play, they tin can dip from a big library of compatible titles stretching dorsum to the start of the 2000s.

Just what games does it include and how does information technology piece of work? We explain all in that location is to know about the Xbox backward compatibility system hither.

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How does Xbox astern compatibility work?

The Xbox Ane and Xbox Series X/Due south are able to play Xbox 360 and original Xbox games through emulation software that makes your console think information technology'southward a concluding generation machine for the purposes of playing classic games.

When a supported game is started on the machine, the current or concluding-gen panel opens the emulator and, in all regards, the game works as if it was running on an Xbox 360 or 2001 Xbox. The opening screen appears start then the game will load.

All other aspects and features that would normally be available on an Xbox 360 or Xbox are available on the Xbox One/Series Ten/South too, including the hub on the former (which tin be opened through a simultaneous press of the carte du jour and view buttons on the Xbox wireless controller). In improver, all new features of the more recent Xbox consoles work, including the ability to accept screen grabs and record and share video of gameplay.

Xbox Series X/Due south owners get additional bonuses as well, with the latest consoles able to play many (if non all) of the backward uniform Xbox 360 and Xbox games with Auto HDR enabled. This adds virtual high dynamic range contrast and colours to make the titles expect meliorate. Plus, many titles have FPS Heave enabled. This ups the frame charge per unit the fames play in, which provides a smoother experience.

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Does it toll me anything?

Xbox offers backward compatibility for costless.

If you own a supported game already, you practise not have to pay anything to play it on Xbox 1 or Xbox Series X/South.

Obviously, it costs to purchase new Xbox 360 or Xbox games that work on the machine.

Many of the games with astern compatibility are also available as part of a Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. For £10.99 a month, yous get access to more 300 games to download and play on your console, made upwards of a mix of archetype Xbox 360 and Xbox games, plus many more Xbox Ane and Series Ten/Southward titles. You also become online gaming access through Xbox Live Gold, EA Play, Cloud Gaming, and even Game Pass for PC.

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Does it work with Xbox games I bought through Xbox store?

Xbox backward compatibility works with digital content as well as disc games. In fact, if you enter a supported disc into your Xbox One or Serial X, the machine will download the game from the Xbox store kickoff - although you will need the disc to be in the machine each time you lot play. This cannot work on an Xbox Ane S All-digital Edition or Xbox Series S, of course, as they do not characteristic disc drives.

If y'all ain a digital copy of a supported game information technology appears in your games list fix for download. Check your My Games & Apps hub to encounter if any are listed among the games yet to be installed.

Can I purchase Xbox 360 and Xbox games on my Xbox One or Xbox Series Ten/South?

Uniform Xbox 360 and Xbox games are listed for purchase on the Xbox game shop. If you are an Xbox Live Gold member, you also go gratuitous Xbox 360 and/or original Xbox games to download each month alongside Xbox One titles as office of the Games for Gold scheme.

That usually ways you go two free Xbox One games and 2 free backward compatible games a month.

Prices for the Xbox 360 and Xbox games on the online store vary, simply start at around £5 / $five.

Tin can I carry on with my previous Xbox 360 game saves on Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S?

If you lot originally set your Xbox 360 to save games to the cloud you will be able to download the save files to the Xbox I version and acquit on. The deject files are permanently associated with your gamertag so the Xbox One should do this automatically.

If yous just saved your in-game progress locally, to the difficult drive, you will demand to restart your Xbox 360 and save them to the cloud instead. If you lot no longer have your Xbox 360, sadly you won't exist able to access the files.

Considering the first-gen Xbox didn't salvage games to the cloud in the aforementioned way, yous tin can't carry on with old save games.

What games are bachelor with Xbox backward compatibility?

There are 100s of Xbox 360 titles available as part of the astern compatibility scheme and a decent selection of original Xbox games.

Games like the original Guitar Hero and Rock Band series won't work as they require proprietary accessories that aren't uniform, nor do whatsoever that crave with the original Kinect movement camera. Even if you accept the Xbox One Kinect, information technology volition non be compatible with previous Xbox 360 Kinect games.

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Full Xbox backward compatibility list

Here's a full list of the original Xbox games that are bachelor with astern compatibility for Xbox One and Xbox Series Ten/S:

Armed and Dangerous
Black*
Blinx: The Time Sweeper*
BloodRayne 2*
Breakdown*
Conker: Live & Reloaded*
Reddish Skies: High Road to Revenge*
Expressionless or Alive three
Dead to Rights*
Destroy All Humans!*
Disney's Chicken Little *
Total Spectrum Warrior*
Fuzion Frenzy*
Gladius
Grabbed by the Ghoulies*
Gunvalkyrie
Hunter: The Reckoning*
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Jade Empire*
King of Fighters Neowave*
Manhunt
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction*
MX Unleashed*
Ninja Gaiden Black*
Oddworld: Munch'south Oddysee
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Otogi two: Immortal Warriors
Panzer Dragoon Orta*
Panzer Aristocracy Activeness: Fields of Glory*
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time*
Psychonauts*
Carmine Expressionless Revolver
Red Faction Ii*
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Sid Meier's Pirates!*
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
SSX iii*
Star Wars Battlefront*
Star Wars Battlefront Two*
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy*
Star Wars Jedi Knight Two: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter*
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic *
Star Wars Knights of the Onetime Commonwealth II: The Sith Lords*
Star Wars Republic Commando*
Star Wars Starfighter: Special Edition
Star Wars: The Clone Wars*
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind*
TimeSplitters 2
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
Unreal Championship two: The Liandri Conflict

And hither'south a full list of the Xbox 360 games that are available with astern compatibility for Xbox One and Xbox Serial X/Due south:

0 day Attack on Earth
3D Ultra Minigolf
50 Cent: Claret on the Sand
A Kingdom for Keflings
A World of Keflings
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Aces of the Galaxy
Advent Ascension
Take chances Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom
Aegis Wing
Age of Booty
AirMech Arena
Alan Wake*
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alaskan Adventures
Alice: Madness Returns
Alien Hominid Hd
Aliens vs Predator
Altered Animal
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Aqua
Are Yous Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Arkanoid Live!
Ground forces of 2
Assassin'due south Creed*
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed Iii
Assassin'south Creed Four Black Flag
Assassinator's Creed Liberation HD
Assassin'southward Creed Rogue
Assassinator'southward Creed Revelations
Set on Heroes 2
Asteroids & Deluxe
Astropop
Asura'southward Wrath
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth
Axel & Pixel
Babel Rising
Band of Bugs
Banjo Kazooie*
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts*
Banjo-Tooie*
Bankshot Billiards 2
Batman: Arkham Origins
BattleBlock Theater
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Battlefield iii
Battlefield 1943
Battlefield: Bad Company
Battlefield: Bad Company two
Battlestations: Midway
Battlestations Pacific
Bayonetta
BCFx *
Beat'n Great
Beautiful Katamari
Bejeweled 2
Bejeweled 3
Bellator: MMA Onslaught
Beyond Proficient & Evil Hd
Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
Bioshock
Bioshock two
Bioshock Space
Binary Domain *
Blood Knights
Claret of the Werewolf
Bloodforge
BloodRayne: Expose
Blue Dragon
Bomberman Battlefest
Boom Nail Rocket
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Bound by Flame
Braid
Brain Claiming
Brave: The Video Game
Brothers in Arms: Hell'south Highway
Savage Legend
Bullet Soul
Bullet Soul -Infinite Burst-
Bully Scholarship Edition
Burnout Paradise
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013
Cabela's Hunting Expeditions
Cabela's Survival: SoK
Call of Duty two
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty: Modernistic Warfare 2
Telephone call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Telephone call of Duty: World at War
Call of Juarez: Spring in Claret
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Capcom Arcade Cabinet
Carcassonne
Cars: Mater-National
Cars two: The Video Game
Castle Crashers
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
CastleStorm
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow ii
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD
Castlevania: Symphony of the Nighttime
Catherine
Centipede & Millipede
Child of Eden
Civilization Revolution*
Clannad
Cloning Clyde
Comic Jumper
Comix Zone
Command and Conquer 3 Kane'southward Wrath
Control and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander's Challenge
Commanders: Attack
Conan
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Contra
Costume Quest
Costume Quest 2
Counter-Strike: Get
Crackdown*
Crackdown two
Crazy Taxi
Crysis
Crysis 2
Crysis 3
Crystal Defenders
Dante's Inferno
Dark Souls
Nighttime Void
Darksiders*
Darksiders Ii
Darwinia+
Daytona USA
De Blob ii
Expressionless or Alive 4
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Ambush Adventures
Deadliest Warrior
Deadly Premonition
Dead Rising 2: Case West
Expressionless Rising 2: Instance Aught
Dead Space
Dead Space 2 *
Dead Infinite iii *
Dead Space Ignition
Deadliest Warrior: Legends
Death past Cube
Deathspank T.O.V.
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Human being Revolution - Director'southward Cut
Dig Dug
Dirt three
Dirt Showdown
Discs of Tron
Disney Commodities
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Ii
Disney Universe
Divinity II - The Dragon Knight Saga
Domino Master
Doom
Doom II
Doom 3: BFG Edition
Doritos Crash Course
Double Dragon: Neon
Dragon Age 2 *
Dragon Age: Origins *
Dragon'southward Lair
Driver San Francisco
Duck Tales: Remastered
Knuckles Nukem Forever
Dungeon Siege 3
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
E4
Globe Defense 2017
World Defence Strength 2025
World Defence force Forcefulness: Insect Armageddon
Earthworm Jim Hard disk drive
Eat Lead
Elements of Destruction
Enchanted Artillery
Encleverment Experiment
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Escape Expressionless Island
F1 2014
Fable Anniversary*
Fable 2*
Fable II Pub Games
Fable Iii*
Legend Heroes
Faery: Legends of Avalon
Fallout 3*
Fallout: New Vegas *
Far Weep 2
Far Cry 3 *
Far Weep 3 Blood Dragon
Far Cry Classic
Far Weep Instincts Predator
F.E.A.R. *
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F.East.A.R. iii *
F.E.A.R. Files
Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy ii: Shipwreck Showdown
Fighting Vipers
Final Fantasy XIII*
Concluding Fantasy XIII-2*
Final Fight: Double Impact
Flashback
Flock!
Forza Horizon*
Foul Play
Fret Nice
Frogger
Frogger 2
From Dust
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Fuel
FunTown Mahjong
Galaga
Galaga Legions
Galaga Legions DX
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Gatling Gears
Gears of State of war *
Gears of War 2*
Gears of State of war 3*
Gears of State of war: Judgment *
Geometry Wars iii: Dimensions Evolved
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
Gin Rummy
Girl Fight
Go! Get! Pause Steady
Goat Simulator
Gilt Axe
Golf: Tee it Up!
Chiliad Theft Auto 4 + Episodes from Liberty City
One thousand Theft Motorcar: San Andreas
Greg Hastings Paintball two
Grid 2
Grid Autosport
Gripshift
Guardian Heroes
Gunstar Heroes
Gyromancer
Gyruss
One-half-Infinitesimal Hero -Super Mega Neo Climax-
Halo 3*
Halo 3: ODST Campaign Edition
Halo iv
Halo: Gainsay Evolved Ceremony
Halo: Reach
Halo: Spartan Attack
Halo Wars
Hard Corps: Insurgence
Hardwood Backgammon
Hardwood Hearts
Hardwood Spades
Harms Way
Haunted House
Heavy Weapon
Hexic 2
Hexic Hd
Hitman: Absolution
Hitman: Blood Money
Hitman HD Pack
Hydro Thunder
Hydrophobia
I Am Alive
Ikaruga
Ilomilo
Infinite Discovery
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Interpol
Iron Brigade
Islands of Wakfu
Jeremy McGrath'south Offroad
Jet Set Radio
Jetpac Refuelled
Precious stone Quest
Joe Danger two: The Movie
Joe Danger Special Edition
Joust
Joy Ride Turbo
Juju
Jurassic Park: The Game
Just Crusade
Just Crusade 2
Kameo: Elements of Power*
Kane & Lynch 2
Killer is Dead
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
KOF Sky Stage
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Lara Croft Tomb Raider Anniversary
Lazy Raiders
Left 4 Dead*
Left 4 Dead 2*
Lego Batman
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Indiana Jones ii
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean area: The Video Game
Lego Star Wars: The Consummate Saga
Lego Star Wars Ii: The Original Trilogy
Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars
Lego The Lord of the Rings *
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII*
Limbo
Lode Runner
Lost Odyssey
Lost Planet
Lost Planet two
Lost Planet 3
Lost Planet Colonies
Lumines Live!
Luxor 2
Mad Tracks
Madballs Babo: Invasion
Mafia 2
Magic 2012
Magic 2013
Magic 2014 - Duels of the Planeswalkers
Magic: The Gathering
Marathon: Durandal
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Decease
Mars: State of war Logs
Mass Effect
Mass Event ii
Mass Effect iii
Matt Hazard: BBB
Max Payne iii
Medal of Honor Airborne *
Run into the Robinsons
Mega Man 9
Mega Human being ten
Metal Gear Ascension: Revengeance
Metal Gear Solid 2 and iii HD
Metallic Gear Solid Peace Walker HD Edition
Metal Slug iii
Metallic Slug XX
Midnight Guild: Los Angeles
Midway Arcade Origins
Might & Magic Disharmonism of Heroes
Armed services Madness
Mini Ninjas
Mirror'southward Edge*
Missile Control
Monaco: What's Yours is Mine
Monday Dark Gainsay
Monkey Isle: Special Edition
Monkey Isle 2: Special Edition
Monopoly Deal
Monopoly Plus
Moon Diver
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Motocross Madness
Mr Driller Online
Ms Pac-Homo
Ms. Splosion Man
Mutant Blobs Attack!!!
Mutant Storm Empire
Mutant Tempest Reloaded
MX vs. ATV Live
MX vs. ATV Reflex
MX vs. ATV Untamed
N+
NBA Jam: On Burn down Edition
NeoGeo Battle Coliseum
New Rally-Ten
Nier *
Nights into Dreams…
Nin2-Jump
Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Novadrome
Of Orcs and Men
OFP: Red River
Omega Five
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Team
Performance Flashpoint: Dragon Ascension
Orcs Must Die!
Outland
Outpost Kaloki X
Overlord
Overlord II
Pac-Man
Pac-Man: Title Edition
Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX+
Pac-Human being Museum
Peggle
Peggle two
Perfect Dark*
Perfect Dark Zero*
Persona iv Loonshit
Peter Jackson'due south King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Phantasy Star Ii
Phantom Billow: Battle Grounds
Pinball FX
Planets Under Attack
Plants vs. Zombies
Poker Boom
Port Royale 3 Pirates & Merchants
Portal 2*
Portal: All the same Alive*
Casualty
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia Classic
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands
Pure
Putty Squad
Puzzle Quest
Puzzle Quest 2
Puzzle Quest Galactrix
Puzzlegeddon
Qix++
Quake Loonshit Arcade
Quantum Puzzler
R-Blazon Dimensions
Rage
Raiden Four
Raskulls
RAW - Realms of Ancient State of war
Rayman 3 Hd
Rayman Legends
Rayman Origins
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Ruby Dead Redemption*
Red Faction: Armageddon
Red Faction: Battlegrounds
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon Metropolis *
Resident Evil Code: Veronica 10
Ridge Racer 6
Rio
Risen
Risen 2: Dark Waters
RoboBlitz
Stone of Ages *
Rocket Knight
Rockstar Tabular array Tennis
Rumble Roses XX
Runner2
R.U.S.E.
Sacred ii: Fallen Affections
Sacred 3
Sacred Citadel
Saints Row
Saints Row 2
Saints Row IV
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell
Saints Row: The Third
Sam & Max Save the Earth
Sam & Max Across Time & Space
Samurai Shodown II
Scarygirl
Scramble
Scrap Metal
ScreamRide
Screwjumper!
Sega Bass Fishing
Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe
Sega Vintage Collection: Monster Globe
Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage
Sega Vintage Collection: Toejam & Earl
Sensible World of Soccer
Shadow Attack/Tenchu
Shadow Complex
Shadowrun
Shadows of the Damned
Shank 2
Shinobi
Shotest Shogi
Shred Nebula
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Silent Colina: Downpour
Silent Hill: HD Drove
Silent Hill Homecoming
Sine Mora
Skate
Skate 2
Skate 3*
Skydive
Skullgirls
Slender: The Inflow
Small Artillery
Sniper Elite V2
Soltrio Solitaire
Sonic 4 Episode II
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed *
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic CD
Sonic Generations*
Sonic The Fighters
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog two
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Sonic The Hedgehog four Episode I
Sonic Unleashed *
Soulcalibur
Soulcalibur II Hd
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Space Ark
Space Giraffe
Space Invaders Infinity Gene
Spec Ops: The Line
Spelunky
Split/Second
Splosion Human being
SpongeBob Squarepants Underpants Slam!
SpongeBob'southward Truth or Square
SSX
Stacking
Star Body of water: The Final Promise
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed*
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Steins; Gate Hiroin's Honey of Dearest
Steins; Gate Linear Restraint Fenogram
Steins; Gate (original version)
Strania
Street Fighter 4
Stuntman: Ignition
Super Cobra
Super Meat Boy
Super Puzzle Fighter Two Turbo
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
Supreme Commander ii
Switchball
Syberia
Syndicate
Tecmo Bowl Throwback
Tekken 6
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Texas Hold 'Em
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Darkness
The Darkness Ii
The Cave
The Elder Scrolls Four: Oblivion*
The Offset Templar
The Male monarch of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match
The Rex of Fighters 13
The Maw
The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom
The Orange Box*
The Outfit
The Splatters
The Walking Dead
The Walking Expressionless: Michonne
The Walking Dead: Flavour Two
The Witcher ii: Assassins of Kings*
Thrillville
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Ticket to Ride
Time Pilot
TimeShift
Tom Clancy'southward Endwar
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy'due south Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter two
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Hereafter Soldier
Tom Clancy'south H.A.W.Ten.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Vi Vegas
Tom Clancy'due south Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Tom Clancy's Splinter Jail cell Blacklist*
Tom Clancy'south Splinter Cell Conviction*
Tom Clancy'due south Splinter Jail cell Double Amanuensis*
Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider Underworld
Too Human being
Torchlight
Tour de France 2009
Tour de France 2011
Tower Bloxx Palatial
Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers: Cold State of war
Toy Story Mania!
Toybox Turbos
Trials Evolution
Trials HD
Triggerheart Exelica
Trine 2
Tron: Evolution
Tropico 4
Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon
Unbound Saga
Undertow
Unreal Tournament Iii
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment *
Vanquish
Virtua Fighter ii
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
Virtual-On
Viva Piñata*
Viva Piñata: Party Animals
Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise*
Warlords
Wolfenstein 3D
Word Puzzle
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
XCOM: Enemy Within
Yosumin! Live
Zone of Enders Hd Collection
Zuma
Zuma's Revenge

* These games are enhanced for Xbox I 10 and the Serial X/Due south, which means they have frame rate and/or resolution enhancements when played on those machines. Many games will as well piece of work with the Series Ten/S Auto HDR role.

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