Backwards Compatible Games

Best Three Backwards Compatible Games on Xbox 360

By Michael Jon Lazar on 4/21/09 10:22am
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There are roughly a bit over a hundred of backwards compatible games (games that work from the old Xbox to the Xbox 360 provided that you have downloaded the required emulator from Microsoft) that one can play on the Xbox 360. However, many of them just plain suck when crossed over. Yet at the same time there are few titles that just have never been downplayed since their glory days on the original Xbox. So, let’s take a look at my top three picks for crossover games that are still fun to play today!

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
One of the best skateboarding video games ever to be created—and this game added the front and rear manual tricks and the build-a-park editor. To this day I still enjoy the simplicity of this game, the tricks and the custom boards. And yes…Skate 2 rocks!

Red Faction 2
This game was perhaps the best shooter and multiplayer death match game of its time. It is now being remade into a free-world game for the Xbox 360.

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Gun: A Wild West, GTA-Styled, Action-Packed Adventure for All!

By Michael Jon Lazar on 4/3/09 1:19pm
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Rarely do you see any Wild West shooters for any video game system anymore, or ever for that matter. Much less do you see them debut on the Xbox 360. But if you will take a trip back in time with me for a moment, let’s revisit one of the better, first person shooters to ever make its way to the next generation video gaming consoles, namely the Xbox 360, shall we?

Gun offers amazing graphics and a huge, Wild West free world that you could explore on foot or horseback. You are the son a hunter that becomes entangled in a conspiracy that threatens to derail peace with the native tribes and pit the west into another civil war. When your father is killed by thugs, you decide to embark upon a quest to clear his name and figure out just what the hell happened. Amazing graphics and a brilliant plot augment this classic shooter that is most certainly one of a kind.

The controls take a bit to get the hang of, namely with the shooting aspects.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Still a Smoking Gun on the Xbox 360!

By Michael Jon Lazar on 2/10/09 12:42pm
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Grand Theft AutoIf you have been listening to me bicker and babble about the best backwards compatible games for the Xbox 360 – then you already know that I am yapping about here. However, for those of you who are just tuning in, or who may not be in the know, Microsoft allows for you to download a backwards compatibility emulator that allows you play a few hundred of the original Xbox classic masterpieces on the Xbox 360 gaming console. Why? Because there were so many gamers that got peeved when Microsoft announced that they would not be releasing anymore, or licensing any more, games for the Xbox, that many felt ripped off, considering most of us had acquired pretty large collections of games when they released the Xbox 360.

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Top Four Xbox 360 Backwards Compatible Games

By Michael Jon Lazar on 2/10/09 9:42am
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LogoThere are many advantages that the Xbox 360 gaming console has to offer to spurge happy gamers all over the planet. Originally, Microsoft reeled us all in hook, line and sinker, by giving to us the original Xbox – which was one of the most advanced next generation video gaming consoles of its day. Then along came its younger, brighter and smarter brother: the Xbox 360. And suddenly, four graphical pipelines were quadrupled into sixteen. Add a new hard drive, better GPU and CPU and more efficient and hearty RAM, and you had the makings for video gaming greatness. Found only in the Xbox 360.

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Red Faction Two: Backwards Compatible Xbox 360 Shooter that Rocks!

By Michael Jon Lazar on 2/10/09 9:09am
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Red FactionTouching on a topic that I have little delved into, well actually, a topic that I have barely even scratched the surface of: backwards compatibility. For those of you, who are not in the know of what exactly this term refers to when it comes to your Xbox 360, let me fill in the details really quickly. Microsoft made sure that when they made the Xbox 360 that avid gamers would still be able to play many older Xbox games on their newer Xbox console; they called this backwards compatibility. Basically, all that is required is that you visit their website and download a file and burn it to a disc and install that disc on your Xbox 360. Then you will be able to enjoy playing hundreds of old Xbox games on your newer, next generation console. If you need to download the files, you can do so from Microsoft Here.

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