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This Is Now the Most-Requested Game for Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

Red Dead Redemption no longer holds the top spot.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops II is now the game most requested to receive backwards compatibility support on Xbox One. The game has overtaken Red Dead Redemption, which had held the top spot for several weeks.

Following Microsoft's E3 announcement of backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games on Xbox One, the company posted a poll on its website asking users to vote for which 360 games they want to receive support on the new console. Rockstar's 2010 game Red Dead Redemption quickly rose to the top of the charts, but now Black Ops II has edged it out.

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The Call of Duty series is highly requested; there are six Call of Duty games in the top 12. A list of the top 15 most-requested games at the time of this writing is below:

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
  2. Red Dead Redemption
  3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  5. Halo: Reach
  6. Call of Duty: Black Ops
  7. Gears of War 3
  8. Fallout 3
  9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  11. Mass Effect 3
  12. Call of Duty: World at War
  13. BioShock Infinite
  14. Fallout: New Vegas
  15. Left 4 Dead 2

Black Ops II was originally at the top of the list for a short time after the poll went live, but was soon beaten by Red Dead Redemption.

The votes are a way for Microsoft to gauge interest in which games to make backwards compatible, but the company cautions that not all of these games will receive support. Currently, only a handful of games are supported, but Microsoft is planning to make more backwards compatible over the coming months.

Recently, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer stated that backwards compatibility helps sell Xbox One systems. Microsoft has also promised to make "hundreds" of 360 games playable on Xbox One by the end of this year.

Which games would you like to see made backwards compatible? Let us know in the comments.

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I will say that I will like to have Tekken 6, Time Crisis 4 and Oblivion compatible for Xbox One. Is not many fighting games that enjoy like Tekken.

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adding old games to xbox one is the best thing. i loved playing old games on my pc, why not xbox too?

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Why? I rarely see people talk about wanting to play the older games except a few such as CoD4.

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Halo Reach? Is that the RTS game?

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@BlueFlameBat said:

Halo Reach? Is that the RTS game?

No H:Reach is not an RTS! Dude please do the/your research 1st. Btw the only RTS 'Halo' game you may be asking about is Halo: Wars. H:W2 is coming out some time in the future! Happy gaming friend!

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@McGuirex3: My mistake. Don't get bent out of shape. So I got the two mixed up. I actually played both games. Okay, so maybe I didn't play enough of Halo Wars to actually call it playing the game, but I'm 99% certain I put it in my Xbox 360.

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@BlueFlameBat said:

@McGuirex3: My mistake. Don't get bent out of shape. So I got the two mixed up. I actually played both games. Okay, so maybe I didn't play enough of Halo Wars to actually call it playing the game, but I'm 99% certain I put it in my Xbox 360.

Not bent at all. Just needs to be mentioned now and again w/ all of us. Happy gaming friend!

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@McGuirex3: That reminds me, I gotta change my avatar. I am so sick of this ... whatever the **** it is! What the hell is it anyway?! Some freak with a television for a mask?!

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@McGuirex3: That reminds me, I gotta change my avatar. I am so sick of this ... whatever the **** it is! What the hell is it anyway?! Some freak with a television for a mask?!

Too funny you should mention that look at the avatar pic. two post below you i.e. BigGamerDude talk about buged out lol! Enjoy my friend!

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Personally, I want Oblivion, Skyrim, GTA IV, and Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.

The first three are kind of obvious. But R6:V2 was by far the best shooter I have ever played. The controls, the character movement, everything. It was basically the perfect shooter. The only strike against it is the lack of beatdowns.

Nothing angers me more than, say, in Battlefield: Hardline, a guy with 200 lbs of armor and guns strapped to his body sprints right up a mountain or takes a grenade to the face and survives. R6:V2 was realistic, was a joy to control, and had great online and offline game modes to play. Give me this game, because I'm sure Seige will be all "Call of Duty: Battlefield"-ed up.

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Sonic Adventure 2 anyone? No? Ok.....

*sobs in corner*

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@biggamerdude said:

Sonic Adventure 2 anyone? No? Ok.....

*sobs in corner*

Too funny.

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Absolutely shocked to see Bioshock Infinite on there. That game fell out of public favor faster than almost any game I've seen before. NOBODY talks about it anymore. If not for times like this, I would be suspect that it ever even existed.

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Why would any game with a PC port need to be on the backwards compatibility list? I get not being able to run it but really most of these games are old enough that any modern PC can run them decently well. For instance, I love Fallout New Vegas to death, but why does it need to be on Xbox One? Pretty much any computer can run it. It also doesn't help that the console Fallouts were garbage. Why would you want to play the inferior version again if you don't have too?

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@wikwoo: Mostly because I'd rather sit on my couch, push a button, and get playing than I would sit in an office chair or have rig up my PC to my TV, having to play in Windowed Mode to avoid rendering the PC useless to anyone else (like my wife). Plus, most games I play on my "average PC" looks worse than on console, and god help you if someone else is using the PC (big webpages can cause choppiness in games while loading) while you're playing games.

Since I'm not buying a 4K triple monitor setup (I have a dual 1080p LED setup), and since I'm not spending hundreds of dollars on a keyboard and mouse, and because I don't have anything special under the hood, console games look and play better than they do on my PC. And no, I'm not going to drop a grand or two on a new PC when mine works just fine.

Consoles are just cheaper and easier. No hardware compatibility problems, no bullshit driver issues, no USb-to-VGA conversions or rigged-up HDMI cords stretching across the room. Just put the disc in, turn it on, and play. Unless you're gonna mod, console gaming is far superior (just my personal opinion).

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@amusso18: Why would anyone else be using the PC while you're using it anyway? Since when do keyboards and mice cost "hundreds of dollars"? Also, once again, I wasn't talking about new games. There is no way that the console version of Fallout 3 looks worse on your PC than it does on console, because the consoles used the lowest graphics settings AND they took a long time to load new areas. Also I'm not sure what you mean by the windowed mode comment. Does your PC not reset the resolution back to normal after you're done playing? If so then something is wrong with it.

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@wikwoo: Because they're fun and not everyone wants to pay a lotta money for a PC?

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@biggamerdude: Did you even read my comment? I just said that any modern PC (Not an expensive gaming pc) Should be able to run almost all of these games. Almost everyone has a PC that was made within the last 5 years, and most of those, even shitty OEMs from Walmart should be able to run Fallout 3 or Left 4 Dead. Unless there's actual improvements to the game on Xbox One I don't see any reason for it to be on there.

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@wikwoo: OK. I understood what you said before. But it's kind of easier just to pick up a controller and start playing. Pc, well, it's a BIT more complicated than that.

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All i can do is LAUGH AHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA~

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COD is such rubbish, can't believe people like that crap.

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Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. That's the only game i keep my 360 for.

Though i doubt they'll do it, seeing as the game is not supported anymore.

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I would love to see gta 4 episodes from liberty city

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Can they just kill off all the COD + Halo from the list and focus on games not even on next gen yet? Heck I would rather have all the arcade games back way before a backwards compatible COD.

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splinter cell blacklist !!!

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The game I want see is Dead Space. It was scary enough on the 360, imagine it on the One!

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Gears and Halo are coming, save your vote for something else

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Can't believe how many of those spots are cod games lol.

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@rusty12000: shows you the kind of clientele Xbox works with.

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So sad.

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Modern Warfare 2 at #4, pretty good considering the age, and noticeably much higher than the sequels.

New Vegas made me smile too.

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Oh for crying out loud, *must* we? I'm thoroughly sick of FPS being the most popular genre in all these polls. Skyrim is the only game in that list I'd ever want to touch with a ten-foot bargepole, to be frank. I know my taste isn't identical to everybody else's, but I do wish the millions of other RPG fans out there would bother to vote on these polls more often. People just don't.

As for what I'd want BC for, apart from Skyrim...? Well, mainly Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, properly-patched Lego games and in general the 360-exclusive JRPGs. But I'm not giving up my old consoles for new ones.

I don't get why people even do that, honestly, unless the new console has BC for their whole collection. I mean, I can see that people might not be able to afford a next gen console without trading in their last gen one, but I have plenty of games for the 360 and wouldn't give up the 360 and the possibility of playing all those games for the next gen when as yet there isn't anything exclusive for the XbOne that I really care about and the BC list isn't out either. Why would anyone want to give up so much for so little just to be "ahead of the curve" in owning a next gen console?

(And no, I'm not a MS or Sony fanbeing; I have both.)

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@trialia: Xbox gamers are very shooter centric. Its the murican console. Kinda stupid I agree.

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What i dont get is why soo many people sold their 360 for $5 when they bought the Xbox One also hope people know that it will be the same exact game....im kinda surprised yet happy Destiny isn't on the list :p

If you have to sell the farm to afford the Xone/PS4 its not worth it. I would never sell my old games while i dont pull out the old systems i can still play the games on my PC via steam or using the game disk

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@Mokuba34: 5 bucks?

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@madsonbarbosa9: it was an exaggeration on how little cash for get for stuff from gamestop as people see to want to trade in old system for the new one then complain month later

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Doesn't make a difference if it doesn't have emulator injected anti aliasing. Otherwise I'll just play on 360. Then if multiplayer isn't cross platform you cut the population in half from already small numbers.

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people STILL haven't had enough of the COD games?! geez

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Bunch of Call of Duty garbage. Play one, youve played em all...

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That's a depressing list. I've played every one of those and got several to play again on my PC through Steam sales. I really want to see my fighting games make the list. I got USFIV for PC, Tekken 7 is coming and MK X is already out. What I really want to see is Soul Calibur V and MvC 3 on there now.

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I don't see why. There's no MP or DLC in BC yet, and the COD games have been utterly worthless in the SP territory over the last few iterations.

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@lamprey263: And that's a shame because Modern Warfare, the game that "made" the COD franchise (despite being the 4th one in it) had an amazing SP campaign.

No COD single-player has come close since.

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@Stonedwolfed: amazing campaign? It was a Michael bay of games all of them.

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@madsonbarbosa9: Michael Bay, in his entire career, never had the wit, characters, dialogue, pacing, or humour, of Modern Warfare.

"Your fruit killing skills are remarkable"

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Dat shooterbox.

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I approve of this list. However, gears 3 should be WAY the **** up there. I want that shit NOW

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