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76 games added to Xbox backwards compatibility, 37 get FPS Boost

To celebrate Xbox's 20th anniversary, Microsoft has made 76 more Xbox 360 and Xbox available to play via Xbox backwards compatibility.

News by Dom Peppiatt Editor-in-chief

Published on Nov. 15, 2021

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To celebrate 20 years of Xbox, Microsoft announced during its celeratory livestream that it would be adding a bumper 76 new games to the backward compatibility library today, November 15.

Highlights from the massive list include the entirety of the Max Payne series, all of the FEAR series, Timesplitters 2 and Future Imperfect, Skate 2, Dead or Alive Ultimate, 50 Cent: Blood on teh Sand, and Star Wars Jedi Knight II.

Every game in the list, which you can see in full below, will benefit from Auto HDR. Additionally, original Xbox games are granted a 4x resolution increase on Xbox Series X and Xbox One X (with a still impressive 3x increase on Xbox Series S) and and a 2x resolution boost on Xbox One and One S.

Read on below to see all the games that have been added as part of today's celebrations. You may also be pleased to know that Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode is now available for everyone to play, too.

Xbox 20th anniversary Backwards Compatible games

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Aces of the Galaxy
Advent Rising
Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Make the Grade
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth
Bankshot Billiards 2
Beautiful Katamari
Binary Domain
Black College Football Xperience: Doug Williams Ed
Cloning Clyde
Conan
Darwinia+
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Dead or Alive 3
Dead or Alive 4
Death by Cube
Disney Universe
Disney's Chicken Little
Elements of Destruction
FEAR
FEAR 2: Project Origin
FEAR 3
FEAR Files
The First Templar
Gladius
Gunvalkyrie
Islands of Wakfu
Lego Lord of the Rings
Manhunt
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Max Payne 3
Mini Ninjas
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
MX vs ATV Alive
MX vs ATV Untamed
Nier
Novadrome
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
The Outfit
Outpost Kaloki X
Quake Arena Arcade
RAW - Realms of Ancient War
Red Dead Revolver
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Ridge Racer 6
Rio
Risen
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Rock of Ages
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Scramble
Screwjumper!
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Skate 2
SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam!
SpongeBob's Truth or Square
Star Wars Starfighter Special Edition
Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars The Clone Wars
Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
Switchball
Thrillville
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Time Pilot
TimeSplitters 2
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Toy Story Mania
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
Viva Pinata: Party Animals
Warlords

Additionally, 37 games are getting FPS Boost mode today. If you're unclear on what this means, FPS Boost is simply a feature that employs a variety of methods that nearly double the original framerate on select titles. This results in higher, steadier framerates to make games visually smoother.

To see if the game you’re playing is running FPS Boost or Auto HDR, you can tap the Xbox button on your controller while in the game and you’ll see a guide overlay indicator in the upper right corner if the features are enabled or not.

The following games recieve an FPS boost today: