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It’s been two years since Xbox ended its Backwards Compatability program, which saw a selection of titles from across both Xbox and Xbox 360 being made available on Xbox One systems. It was pretty awesome, but sadly left a lot of great titles out, with a huge chunk of the Xbox 360’s horror library left behind. During today’s Xbox 20th Anniversary stream, however, it was announced a new lineup of over 70 classic titles will be hitting Xbox Backwards Compatability starting today. While the grand majority of the list is non-horror (full of classics like the Max Payne trilogy and Red Dead Revolver), there are a bunch of horror titles that I’m over the moon to hear are part of this release. The full list of horror (along with a few horror-adjacent) titles are:
- Binary Domain
- F.E.A.R.
- F.E.A.R. FILES (Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate Expansion Packs)
- F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
- F.E.A.R. 3
- Manhunt
- Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Excluding Manhunt (which is playable on PS4/5 natively), this will be the first time these titles are playable on current-gen systems without the need for streaming (and in Binary Domain, Onechanbara, and F.E.A.R.‘s case, at all). Along with this rollout of new games, there are also quite a few of these, along with games already available, that are receiving FPS boosts on Xbox Series systems. The horror (and horror adjacent) games included are:
- Alan Wake
- Binary Domain
- Dead Space 2
- Dead Space 3
- F.E.A.R.
- F.E.A.R. 3
- Gears of War
- Gears of War Ultimate Edition
- Gears of War 2
- Gears of War 3
- Gears of War: Judgement
- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
I’m especially excited to see the boost applied to Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, as that game suffers from some serious framerate issues. ORC is sort of a guilty pleasure, so I’m happy that it’s getting a little special treatment here. I should also mention that FPS boosts are also coming to a number of Xbox Cloud games, including:
- The Evil Within 2
- Gears of War 2
- Gears of War 3
- Gears of War 4
- Gears of War: Judgment
- Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
- Prey
Overall, a damn good day to be a horror fan on Xbox. The complete F.E.A.R. collection is a huge get, personally, as the franchise has been trapped on 360/PS3, along with PC versions that have problems running on Windows 10 (and the first game being kind of annoying to buy). ORC also has issues, as it requires the now-defunct Games For Windows Live to run. I’m just so overjoyed to have these titles back, and can’t wait to jump right in tonight.
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