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300 Original Xbox Games Available Via XBLA - Update Fixes Back. Compat.

This is your chance to play the original Xbox games at 720p and 1080i - anti-aliasing

By Filip Truta, Games Editor

20th of April 2007, 10:56 GMT

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The free Spring Update from Microsoft brings back nothing but goodies from the old Xbox days: no less than 300 games, available through a backwards compatibility fix, looking better than always because your Xbox 360 will run them at 720p and 1080i with anti-aliasing. The update will also allow you to play cross-platform between Xbox 360 and the original Xbox over Xbox Live, as Xbox Live's Major Nelson posts.

So, here's a selection of some of the old Xbox games you might want to play on your Xbox 360:

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Army Men: Sarge's War
Barbie Horse Adventures Wild Horse Rescue (just kidding with this one, but then again, you never know who's reading)
Breakdown
Burnout 3: Takedown

Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty 3
Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Counter-Strike
DOOM 3
Fable
Fable: The Lost Chapters
FIFA STREET
Full Spectrum Warrior
Guilty Gear Isuka
Jet Set Radio Future
Mech Assault 2
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
Mortal Kombat Deception
Oddworld Munch's Oddysee
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantom Dust
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Sengoku Warriors (but this one's going to be available only in Japan)
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Unreal Championship 2

Of course there are 270 more titles from which you can choose, but I couldn't post them all;I thus tried to make a fine selection of what I thought was worth playable. You don't have to take my word for it though, so go ahead and check out the whole list. I'm sure I've missed a few good ones that deserved mentioning. That's that. Oh, and another thing: now that the older games are making this huge comeback on all next-gen consoles, are we to believe that it's the end of the consoles as we know them? Don't laugh cause, I heard a while ago a not-so-famous game developer, but a developer nonetheless, saying that PCs are taking over and fast. Could he be right?

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