Posted by CMorrison on Nov 27th, 2007
The November Xbox 360 back-compatibility list for original Xbox titles is now available for perusal, and to be frank, it’s the most disappointing update I’ve been witness to in a long time. Observe:
* 2006 Fifa World Cup Germany
* 25 to Life
* AMF Bowling 2004
* Apex
* Arena Football
* Armed and Dangerous
* Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance
* Batman Rise of Sin Tzu
* Bionicle
* Blade II
* Blinx: The Timesweeper
* Blitz The League
* Blood Omen 2
* Blowout
* Breakdown
* Burnout 2: Point of Impact
* Cabelas Dangerous Hunts 2
* Championship Manager 2006
* Colin Mcrae Rally 2005
* Crime Life: Gang Wars
* Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
* Dungeons& Dragons Heroes
* ESPN College Hoops 2k5
* ESPN NFL 2k5
* Fantastic 4
* FIFA 06 Soccer
* Fight Night: Round 3
* Final Fight: Streetwise
* Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
* Freedom Fighters
* Freestyle Street Soccer
* Future Tactics: The Uprising
* Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee
* Godzilla Save the Earth
* Goldeneye Rogue Agent
* Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max’d
* High Heat MLB 2004
* Hunter: The Reckoning
* Indiana Jones And The Emperors Tomb
* MLB Slugfest Loaded
* MVP Baseball 2003
* MVP Baseball 2004
* MVP Baseball 2005
* Nascar Thunder 2002
* Nascar Thunder 2003
* NBA 2k3
* NBA Ballers
* NBA Inside Drive 2002
* NBA Street V3
* NCAA College Basketball 2k3
* NCAA March Madness 2005
* NCAA March Madness 2006
* NFL 2k2
* NFL 2k3
* NHL 2005
* NHL 2K3
* NHL Hitz Pro
* Nightcaster: Defeat The Darkness
* NTRA Breeders Cup: World Thoroughbred Championships
* Playboy The Mansion
* RLH Hunt or be Hunted
* Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown
* Rocky
* Rugby 2006
* Shattered Union
* Shrek Super Party
* Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
* Starsky & Hutch
* Syberia II
* Techmo Classic Arcade
* Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
* Test Drive
* The Bard’s Tale
* The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
* The Guy Game
* The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
* Thousand Land
* Thrillville
* Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers
* Turok: Evolution
* Van Helsing
* WarPath
* Worms 3D
* Zathura
Outside of Indiana Jones and Armed and Dangerous, there’s really not a whole lot worth bothering with here…where are top-shelf games like Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, Beyond Good and Evil, and Enclave? Almost seems that by the time these games become back compatible, we’ll be buying the Xbox 720 and getting ready to do the back-compatibility waiting game all over again.
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Devin de Gruyl
December 2, 2007 at 3:44 pm
See, I’ve never understood the whole concept of the 360’s backwards compatibility in the first place. Why even have these updates to begin with, and not simply make the damn thing compatible with the older games out of the box? It certainly worked for Sony!
Then again, you do have to remember the company we’re talking about here…
December 4th, 2007 at 8:45 am
It’s a hardware vs software issue. The 360 hardware is an entirely different beast than the Xbox; full back-compatibility would likely require an additional Xbox chipset be included on the 360 mainboard which would simply add to the unit cost (the 60gig PS3 had near-full PS2 back compatibility because it had a PS2 chipset included; these are gone in the 40 and 80gig models resulting in no currently available PS3 system having full back-compatibility).
December 5th, 2007 at 10:41 am
That’s not entirely true. Playstation.com has a backward compatibility search for the 60GB and 80GB systems. Apparently there’s quite a few problems with PS2 and PSX games having glitches, illegible text, artifacts, or just making the game useless on the new system.