PGR 1 and 2 now 360 compatible News
Xbox 360 Xbox News by Kristan Reed
Admist all the E3 hype and fluff, Microsoft snuck out the latest of its Backward Compatibility updates, with some of the very best Xbox games ever made now fully compatible with the Xbox 360.
Top of a lot of people's (i.e. Tom's) list will be OutRun 2 and its delightful follow-up OutRun 2006: Coast To Coast, but even better (in my opinion) is the news that Project Gotham Racing and Project Gotham Racing 2 have finally joined the BC list. About time too. Really.
Elsewhere on the list, Oblivion fans looking for another Xbox RPG fix might want to check out The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. We gave it a respectable 8/10 upon its PC release five years ago, and many RPG fans rate it extremely highly. I picked up a copy on Xbox for £3 recently, so have a poke around in the bargain buckets and see what you reckon.
Also worth checking out is the original Burnout - but maybe only to remind yourself just how far the series has come. Other items of interest are Doom III: Resurrection of Evil, Full Spectrum Warrior: 10 Hammers, Jet Set Radio Future (which was supposed to work last time around, but didn't), Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Mech Assault 2, MotoGP 2, Silent Hill 2, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X and 3.
In total, the list has grown by almost 70 titles, although, to be honest, most of these newly compatible games are ones you'd never want to darken your doorstep ever again. Blinx 2? Without Warning? Rogue Ops? Bloodrayne 2? Auto Modelista? Nurse!
For the full list, head to the official site, though bear in mind this is the US list. No-one's bothered to update the UK list yet, but they're generally identical from our experience.
We really do wish someone from the BC team would finally sort out Project Zero for Europe, though. Are you reading Microsoft? What about Rallisport Challenge 2? Psi Ops? Kung Fu Chaos? Freedom Fighters? Oddworld Stranger's Wrath? Otogi? Midtown Madness 3? Galleon? Indiana Jones? Voodoo Vince? Deus Ex Invisible War? TOCA Race Driver 2 or 3? [Explodes]
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OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
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themagicaltaz
13/07/07 @ 08:38
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Will I get to download Paris and Long Beach again for free ?
Not thatI can test it since my 360 had a nice ROD after 30 minutes of Forza2 after just being back from repair... |
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kangarootoo
13/07/07 @ 08:38
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Morrowind?! \o/
/heads off to ebay to find a goty version. Never did check out those werewolves and loved them in Daggerfall. |
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pinchofsalt
13/07/07 @ 08:50
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Nowt wrong with the Blinx games - they keep my 3 yr old amused so they're worth every penny.
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kangarootoo
13/07/07 @ 08:51
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@Merefield
Generally not. I think the option is there (as in, supported by the bc tech) for devs to update textures and so on, but I wouldn't expect it as the budget for such things won't exist in the majority of cases. I would see BC as simply a way of being able to put your old XB in a cupboard somewhere AND play the older games in a higher res (not sure if the 360 does any smoothing though). One thing I have found about 360 bc that is a bit annoying is the lack of widescreen support from most games. The originals ran fine in widescreen, but on the 360 they mostly run in 4:3 only. Not a big issue though and I've still been happy with the BC support (except Sniper Elite, which doesn't work despite being on the list; booting to the menu but freezing on level launch does not count imo). |
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Oh, but I thought MS now know what the problem is and can actually fix the ROD.
Despite the 3 year warranty thing, these things will still break, it's still going to spend more time in the garage as it gets older. I reckon the *only* true fix will be to buy the 65nm 360 next year (god help them is they screw that one up too). |
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kangarootoo
13/07/07 @ 08:58
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Galleon is good fun. Not as great as the hype suggested, but for the manhours invested its very good (the history of that project is many things, but lack of talent is not one of them).
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kangarootoo
13/07/07 @ 09:00
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@onyxbox
I think the later 360s have much better reliability. The 65nm version is not the first version to get a lot of the problems ironed out. IIRC any systems dated after June 06 have a much healthier failure rate. |
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kangarootoo
13/07/07 @ 09:03
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@ccfb
8/10 is high, but not extremely so. Extreme technically means something along the lines of "furthest removed from the average". Regardless, I think Morrowind definitely qualifies for the old "add 1 to the score if you like this sort of thing". |
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ostrasized
13/07/07 @ 09:10
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Ha. Try playing Thief III on your Xbox 360. It claims to be backwards compatible, but what's this? Oh look, every transparent particle is drawn over the top of the world.
Destroys the game, to see the glimmering candle flames and fires through the world, like you've got specific x-ray vision (but nowhere near as cool). Unless it works perfectly it doesn't work, Microsoft - take it off your list ;-) |
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fiery_jackass
13/07/07 @ 09:12
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(pointless snipe)
Outrun 2 is undoubtedly top of the list? A list with PGR1 & 2? nope. |
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Singularity
13/07/07 @ 09:29
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errr Galleon? Why would you care if that worked or not ;)
Yep, 'cos it was awesome. ;P |
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TheRealBadabing
13/07/07 @ 09:30
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Anyone know if there is a list of 50hz only BC games? Tried Thief 3, Psychonauts and some other stuff and they don't play through a VGA cable because of this.
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At this point, apart from the few odds and ends I listed, most of the great Xbox exclusives are now covered off. For the multi platform stuff that doesn't work, most of them were developed for the PS2 and ported to Xbox lazily anyway, so I think I might finally be able to retire the old black box soon...
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Carpathian
13/07/07 @ 09:44
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JSRF !!!! Finally !!!!!!!!
(sorry for the enthusiasm - I've been waiting for ages) (thinks) (actually, just remember my brick is ROD'd in a Prague repair centre so enthusiasm = 0) |
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JSRF! It finally works! Oh, how I longed for this moment,i it's been since my original Xbox broke down in July 2005... two years from now, how peculiar.
Some starting: JSRF works fine, even with the VGA cable (I was afraid it didn't..). Morrowind would apparently work fine, and even the GOTY Edition doesn't get the "incompatibility" message. However, I couldn't start it because it doesn't work with the VGA cable. Too bad, but I already have it for PC. What matters is that JSRF works even with VGA. Lookin' sharp, too, if a bit pixelated. |
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TheStranger
13/07/07 @ 11:30
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"Morrowind ftw! \0/
Loading times haven't improved though. :(" Agreed on both counts. |
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Penguinzoot
13/07/07 @ 11:38
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Great news about JSR. Riddick would be nice (although unlikely suppose), but RSC2 is now my most wanted.
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