Microsoft has updated its Xbox 360 backward-compatibility list, this time adding 39 new games and updating support for nine more. That brings the total number of Xbox games playable on the Xbox 360 up past the 250 mark.
When the last update to the list was made in June, it added only 27 games to the list, a half-dozen of which were Japanese Xbox games like Bistro Cupid or Mahjong Seminar. That update was released in the wake of controversial comments from Microsoft VP Peter Moore, who was quoted as saying that nobody really cares about backward compatibility anymore.
As with most backward-compatibility updates, there are a mix of big-name games (Burnout 3: Takedown, the unreleased Lego Star Wars II, True Crime: Streets of L.A.) and some odd titles that likely just happened to work with the system's latest software emulation (Aquaman, Catwoman, Shincho Mahjong). The full list of new and updated games follows:
New Games
- Aggressive Inline
- All-Star Baseball 2005
- Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
- Burnout 3: Takedown
- Catwoman
- Counter-Strike
- Dead to Rights
- ESPN Major League Baseball
- Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Director's Cut
- Freaky Flyers
- Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Island Thunder
- IndyCar Series 2005
- The Legend of Spyro: A Beginning
- Lego Star Wars II
- Links 2004
- Maximum Chase
- MTX: Mototrax Featuring Travis Pastrana
- MX vs. ATV Unleashed
- Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
- Outlaw Tennis
- Over the Hedge
- Sid Meier's Pirates!
- Richard Burns Rally
- Rogue Trooper
- Serious Sam
- Shincho Mahjong
- Smashing Drive
- Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run
- The Suffering
- Taz: Wanted
- Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
- Trigger Man
- True Crime: Streets of LA
- Vietcong: Purple Haze
- Wrath Unleashed
- X-Men II: Wolverine's Revenge
Updated Games
- All-Star Baseball 2003
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
- Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart
- Digimon Rumble Arena 2
- Ford vs. Chevy
- Half-Life 2
- The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
- Kabuki Warrior
- Magatama
- Mortal Kombat: Deception
- Sneakers
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Ray Whitehead
27/10/2006 09:28 AM
Microsoft is really doing the BIG GO SLOW on backward compatability. With all of the programming resourses available to them it is beyond believable that they havent got all of the games done by now. The best op[tions would have been a full xbox software emulation, or an add on hardware emulator for the x box. Nintendo doesnt seem to have aproblem with this and sony certainly doesnt see it as an issue. On the Idiot from MS who said that backward compa doesnt matter, I have made a VERY significant investment in games for my kids and I DO SEE IT AS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. If Microsoft wants to purchase back all of my games forwhat I bought them for, then it might not be such an issue, but with te limited library and the price gouging cost of the new 360 games, it will be a long time before this house hold swapps over our small holding of around 60 games. Lets hope that the Gaming media can really get on Microsofts tail and get this solved, Maybe it is time for Bill gates to start to get involved andget them to earn their enormous saleries and get the job done!
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