More Games Join Backwards Compatibility – Play Alien vs Predator, Sonic Unleashed and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Backwards Compatibility

Xbox One users can now play three more games using backwards compatibility feature. Alien vs Predator, Sonic Unleashed and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning have joined the backwards compatibility library.

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This was announced officially in a tweet of Major Nelson. If you have game discs of all three games then just insert them in your Xbox One and start playing. If you do not have game disc, you can always get a used on from Ebay, Amazon or Gamestop.

If you want to go all digital, then you can buy Sonic Unleashed for $15 from Xbox Store. Alien vs Predator is priced at $20 on Xbox Store and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will also cost $20 on Xbox Store.

The backwards compatible features was launched November 12, 2015 for Xbox One console. Microsoft had to come with a plan to compete against its counter part console PlayStation 4. Since the launch of PS4, Xbox One was overshadowed with PlayStation 4. This was mainly due to lack of exclusives on Xbox One and few little features.

Microsoft in an attempt to gain traction in consumer electronics market, released backward compatible feature. Xbox Backwards Compatibility is currently competing directly with PS Now services and hence Microsoft is continuously increasing the number of titles in this list to make it even better.

Xbox One Backwards Compatibility was started to bring the original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles to Xbox One and the list has been growing ever since the service started. It now covers almost more than 1000 games that support backwards compatible feature.

Microsoft is also planning to bring Game Pass services to PC platform. Currently, only Microsoft exclusive games can be accessed via Game Pass and third party games remain restricted to play on PC.

What games you played on Xbox one using Backwards Compatible feature? I for one played the original Dark Souls. Let us know more your thoughts in comments section below.

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