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Xbox 360 gets another BC update

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Aug 28, 2006 4:15 pm PT

Latest update pushes number of backward-compatible games past 250; 39 games added to list, nine games receive updated support.

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

546 Comments

  • havokmaster

    Posted Dec 16, 2006 7:23 am PT

    I want chronicles of riddick and brothers in arms: road to hill 30

  • K1LLR3175

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:42 am PT

    PLEEESE add UNREALCHAMPIONSHIP2

  • biff00912

    Posted Sep 18, 2006 4:13 pm PT

    why the hell cant they put the other prince of persia's on the list?
    anyone else like those games and want them there?

  • helluvagood

    Posted Sep 17, 2006 3:20 pm PT

    awesome...

  • ssjtrunks6

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 6:18 pm PT

    that would just rule if they would just make all the xbox game BC, then the gamers would not have to worry about what games they could play on their 360

  • Kyo__man66

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 8:47 pm PT

    is there any SNK games that are backwards compatable?

  • LsTr_Of_SmG

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 4:46 pm PT

    I think you will find that it's simply due to the tweaks to the emulator that more games can work, this in fact is hinted at in the article if you people care to read it more carefully:

    'As with most backward-compatibility updates, there are a mix of big-name games and some odd titles that likely just happened to work with the system's latest software emulation.'

    It is most likely that they have been tweaking it to add some more new, and good, games (such as Burnout) and due to the the tweaking, unexpectedly some other games worked. Which may or may not be that good. You have to take what you can get after all.

  • ssjtrunks6

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 5:48 am PT

    it would be more appriciated if they would focus more on new 360 games

  • onlineps2player

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 1:29 am PT

    who cares ?!!

  • OfficialBed

    Posted Sep 5, 2006 4:51 pm PT

    ok

  • EscoDaddy14

    Posted Sep 4, 2006 6:20 pm PT

    Might get a 360 if they add my precious ESPN 2k5 Football

  • Engerys

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 5:27 pm PT

    Microsoft won't put any Good games on the list because they are tryin to port them and get gamers to shell out more money for the same game but "up-rated graphics" this move will lead people to snuff the x360 cause its a totally waste of power and money to have great O-X, games but are stuck with playing the crap of today. I talked to MS they told me if people called them and complained more they would hurry up and get more stuff done, like music mix 360- lol Can't wait for that one

  • Riverwolf007

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 3:40 pm PT

    You can probobly go to any pawn shop in your area and talk the guy down to 50 bux for an original xbox and play any old game that you want. It just wont be anti aliased like crazy the way the BC games are........Hey! Where are all the sony trolls to make fun of our list? Talk about missing a prime opportunity, those guys are never around when you need em'.

  • King_Louis51

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 3:25 pm PT

    When will Microsoft bring in the decent games like The Chronicles of Riddick, Timesplitters 3, Conker, Mafia, Project Gotham 2, Def Jam: Fight for NY?

  • DragoDracini

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 12:53 pm PT

    When are they going to quit with the crap games and choose some good ones, like Phantom Dust, Advent Rising, etc.

  • krazykazmikaze

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 10:57 pm PT

    when are they gonna add ES3:Morrowind GOTY?

  • gameconniseur86

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 7:09 pm PT

    Sucks for those who sold their Xboxes... When are they adding Otogi to the list?

  • eXo5

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 3:43 pm PT

    w00t!

    Counterstrike!

  • Relex_Rahl

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 2:12 pm PT

    laaaame

  • PrinceAdam11

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 9:32 am PT

    someone actually bought aquaman, shame for shame...

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