TechRadarBackwards compatibility is now only a couple of days away for Xbox One owners, and Microsoft have finally released a list of the first batch of playable games.
Since its announcement, backwards compatibility has been hotly anticipated for bringing scores of classic Xbox 360 titles to the Xbox One. Well today, Microsoft have revealed the first 104 games you’ll be able to play again – as long as you owned them in the first place that is, but you can read how it actually works here.
The list includes favourites like Assassin’s Creed 2, Fallout 3, Gears of War 1, 2 & 3, Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 & 2, South Park: The Stick of Truth and loads more. Check out the full list below.
| A Kingdom for Keflings | Lode Runner™ |
| A World of Keflings | LUMINES LIVE! |
| Alien Hominid HD | Mass Effect™ |
| Assassin’s Creed II | Metal Slug 3 |
| Asteroids & Deluxe | Metal Slug XX |
| Banjo Kazooie®: Nuts & Bolts | Might & Magic Clash of Heroes™ |
| Banjo-Kazooie® | Mirror’s Edge™ |
| Banjo-Tooie® | Missile Command |
| BattleBlock Theater | Monday Night Combat |
| Bejeweled 2 | Monkey Island: Special Edition |
| Bellator: MMA Onslaught | Monkey Island 2: Special Edition |
| Beyond Good & Evil HD | Ms. Splosion Man™ |
| Blood of the Werewolf | Mutant Blobs Attack!!! |
| BloodRayne: Betrayal | N+ |
| Borderlands | NBA JAM: On Fire Edition |
| Call of Juarez® Gunslinger | NiGHTS into dreams… |
| Castle Crashers | Operation Flashpoint™: Dragon Rising |
| CastleStorm | Pac-Man: Championship Edition™ |
| Centipede & Millipede | Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX+ |
| Condemned: Criminal Origins | Perfect Dark |
| Crazy Taxi™ | Perfect Dark Zero |
| Deadliest Warrior: Legends | Phantom Breaker:Battle Grounds |
| Defense Grid: The Awakening | Pinball FX™ |
| DiRT 3 | Plants vs. Zombies |
| DiRT Showdown | Prince of Persia |
| Discs of Tron | Putty Squad |
| Doom | Rayman 3 HD |
| Doom II | R-Type Dimensions™ |
| Dungeon Siege III | Sacred Citadel |
| Earthworm Jim HD | Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. |
| Fable II | Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe |
| Fallout 3 | Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World |
| Feeding Frenzy | Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage |
| Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown | Shadow Complex |
| Gears of War | Sonic CD |
| Gears of War 2 | Sonic The Hedgehog |
| Gears of War 3 | Sonic The Hedgehog 2 |
| Gears of War: Judgment | Sonic The Hedgehog 3 |
| Golden Axe™ | Super Meat Boy |
| Halo: Spartan Assault | Supreme Commander 2 |
| Hardwood Backgammon® | Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas |
| Hardwood Hearts® | Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas 2 |
| Hardwood Spades® | South Park: The Stick of Truth™ |
| Heavy Weapon | Torchlight |
| Hexic HD | Toy Soldiers |
| Ikaruga | Toy Soldiers: Cold War |
| Jetpac Refuelled | Tron: Evolution |
| Joy Ride Turbo | Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon |
| Just Cause 2 | Viva Piñata |
| Kameo™: Elements of Power | Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise |
| LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game | Wolfenstein 3D |
| LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga | Zuma |
There has however been a bit of a technical snag with multi-disc games like Mass Effect 2, though there’s every chance they could make their way to the feature when the next batch of games is announced in December.
Backwards compatibility will be coming to Xbox One in an update on November 12.
Mark is the Gaming Editor for UNILAD. Having grown up a gaming addict, he’s been deeply entrenched in culture and spends time away from work playing as much as possible. Mark studied music at University and found a love for journalism through going to local gigs and writing about them for local and national publications.