Move over GTA 5, Rockstar have announced that Niko Bellic is back on the scene through a new Xbox One Backwards Compatibility update.
Rockstar announced today that the intersecting sagas of Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City are now all playable via Xbox One Backwards Compatibility.
“All versions of the game, including Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, are compatible on Xbox One. Digital game owners have instant access on Xbox One, so they can download Grand Theft Auto IV directly from the “Ready to Install” section of their Xbox One and play at will,” Rockstar confirmed today.
“Physical game owners can just insert the Xbox 360 game disc into their Xbox One and download the game.
“Your original game saves will also transfer if you have saved your game to the Cloud Saved Games feature on Xbox 360.
“Anyone who doesn’t already have Grand Theft Auto IV can get it from the Xbox Store on Xbox One, along with The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.”
GTA IV has proved a massive hit, with the title seeing a huge increase in sales on Amazon and it’s easy to see why.
Apart from being one of the most popular games on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC when it was originally launched, it also sits near the top of the official most-requested page run by Microsoft.
Having garnered over 80,000 votes, it can be said to be one of latest big games from the Xbox 360 ported over since the likes of Bioshock.
And it wasn’t the only game to make the list, with another popular title arriving earlier in the week.
The Xbox One backwards compatibility list expanded on Tuesday, as Microsoft added another Xbox 360 classic.
LEGO Indiana Jones is now available as part of the Xbox One backwards compatibility program, which now boasts well over 300 games.
The news was announced by Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb, who said: “LEGO Indiana Jones is coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility today.”
This could be the mysterious game that was supposed to join the backwards compatibility scheme last week.
If you already own backwards compatibility titles, then they’ll automatically appear in your games and apps list. Alternatively, you can buy digital downloads from the Xbox One store and Xbox website.
Xbox One backwards compatibility recently expanded with three games, including Xbox 360 versions of Stuntman: Ignition, Mad Tracks and JUJU.
That was preceded by the likes of TEKKEN 6, Midway Arcade Origins and Mutant Storm Empire.
Both GTA IV with its standalone DLC collection and Lego Indiana Jones are the first Backward Compatibility announcements of February, proving that there are still some big games worth waiting for.
Source: xbox one – Google News