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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
When Microsoft first announced it, the gaming world went mad. Backwards compatibility for the current generation of consoles had been a lost cause, and those with large libraries of Xbox 36 and PS3 games had accepted that old software would remain just that. Which is why Microsoft’s surprise E3 announcement caused such a stir: apparently the company had essentially recreated the Xbox 36 with the architecture of the Xbox One, and all of those old games would theoretically be able to come over. People dreamed of playing games like Black Ops 2 on the new hardware.
It took a while to get there, but the service came of age.
When backwards compatibility actually hit the Xbox One a few months after the announcement it was a pretty limited service. We had a smattering of first-party titles, some games from the arcade, and a very long wish list. It remained, as it had been at E3, a good idea, but one that had clearly only been partway realized. A video game community used to half-truths felt somewhat vindicated, though we were promised more were coming.
And then, wouldn’t you know, more games arrived! The legal teams of both Microsoft and game publishers seemed to be hard at work, because a steady trickle of titles small and large began to fill out the backwards compatible library. At this point, we’ve got hits ranging from Red Dead Redemption to the entire Mass Effect series, Fallout: New Vegas, Bioshock and more. The list started as something of a curiosity: if you owned one of those games, you could give it a roll on a new system. At this point, however, it’s not only an actually viable way to bring your library forward, it’s a good way for people who missed these games the first time around to see what all the fuss is about.
This morning’s announcement of Black Ops 2 represented a major milestone in that quest. It isn’t the first Call of Duty game to make it’s way to backwards compatibility, but it’s been one of the most requested titles since the beginning. The inclusion of the game in Xbox live’s big sale is just gravy. Both the Ps4 and Xbox One have changed in many ways since launch, and they’re both now excellent consoles. But this feature does feel worth calling out. One only imagines if it had been available from go…
Source: xbox one – Google News
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