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Xbox One X

Yesterday, we talked nigh the Xbox One'southward backwards compatibility style and how developers within the visitor had spent years putting the feature together. Today, we're talking near the 13 original Xbox games you can now play, forth with some enhancements to existing Xbox 360 games that are now bachelor.

Our sister site, IGN, has more details, but Knights of the Old Republic is a peculiarly good showcase for these improvements. If you've never played KOTOR, information technology'southward considered one of the greatest Star Wars games e'er fabricated. While information technology feels archaic in some respects — the UI was clearly designed for much lower monitor resolutions — the plot and characters agree upwardly very well today.

The improvements hither are considerable and while the game doesn't expect entirely mod, information technology looks far better than information technology did at 480p. This is an added bonus for Xbox I owners, because KOTOR isn't the easiest game to get running on a mod organisation. The last time I played it (about two years agone), there were several hoops to leap through. Cutscenes often didn't play properly and the in-between mission sequences where you fend off enemy fighters often didn't respond to the mouse and keyboard the way they ought to. I eventually found piece of work-arounds, but being able to drop in and just play the game would've been much nicer.Here are the 13 games being released from the Xbox One:

  • Black
  • BloodRayne 2
  • Cherry Skies: High Route to Revenge
  • Dead to Rights
  • Fuzion Frenzy
  • Grabbed past the Ghoulies
  • Ninja Gaiden Black
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Fourth dimension
  • Psychonauts
  • Cherry-red Faction Ii
  • Sid Meier'due south Pirates!
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
  • The King of Fighters Neowave

Meanwhile, some Xbox 360 games are likewise getting upgraded. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Fallout 3, Halo iii, and Assassinator's Creed. The verbal benefits vary from title to championship, but some games take 10-bit colour implemented in place of eight-bit while others add HDR support (Oblivion or FO3 would be obvious places where HDR could be used). Granted, these are old titles, simply there'south no indication whatever of these features are coming to the PC. If Microsoft were to e'er open up modding, the best place to play Fallout 3 or Oblivion might ironically be on an Xbox One 10. IGN also notes that some games, similar Halo three, are rendering at 9x their original resolution (the base game ran at 1152×640).

Hype is too starting to build around the Xbox I 10, with more 118 Xbox One games announced as receiving visual updates or frame rate improvements. Major titles include Diablo iii, Dishonored 2, FIFA eighteen, Elite: Dangerous, Fallout 4, Forza Motorsport seven, Halo five: Guardians, Hitman, Injustice two, Eye Earth: Shadow of War, PlayerUnknown'south Battlegrounds, Resident Evil 7, Star Wars Battlefront ii, Skyrim Special Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Titanfall ii, and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. Polygon has a complete listing, and you tin check our own Xbox One X coverage hither. Microsoft's willingness to forgo a turn a profit margin on its console hardware this time around means the Xbox 1 X is going to pack a formidable punch, and while I'm not jumping ship from PC to consoles there'south no way to build a from-scratch PC that matches its performance (upgrades, however, are a different story).