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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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Sad that people don't hold onto older systems to play games... sadder still that Xboners still only want, and have, shooters. Who needs variety when y'got an XBOX, right?

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@Drkr_Zen said:

Sad that people don't hold onto older systems to play games... sadder still that Xboners still only want, and have, shooters. Who needs variety when y'got an XBOX, right?

That's quite an ignorant assumption.

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@connorisadog: it's not an assumpition when the evidence is staring us in the face. Of the fifteen most-requested games for BC, fourteen are some form of shooter.

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@rot8erconex: I agree its hilarious. Just shooters! Xbox is for muricans.

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I suppose the people hating on the last decent - hell, even good - CoD game for a while are doing so simply because it's a CoD game, and it's the hip thing to do.

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All I need is Skyrim

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Crysis & Bioshock trilogy please

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I don't care what games make it on top. As long as Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2, Soul Calibur V, and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax are backwards compatible by the end of the year.

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all of them, just let me play every xbox 360 game on my xbox one. thats all i want microsoft.

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Magna Carta 2 please. I'm tired of FPS/TPS genre ...

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Wow the entire list is made up of shooters with one exception, jezus fucking christ

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Look at how these people are ruining the only ace in the hole they had left for xbox, looks at all these fucking multiplats -_-

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Surprised there's no Assassins creed

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@Divad222: I hadn't though of it, but you're totally right.

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I didn't vote in this poll, but all the people hating on COD around here is a real shocker. <- (Sarcasm BTW)

Literally ANYTHING "COD related" gets hated on by the Gamespot community.

FTR I play all different types of games, but I play COD too, big deal. You guys act like the gaming industry is going to die because some people like COD.

^ That's like me saying I think it's dumb for movies to get remade, or hey look yet another comic book character series reboot is coming out. Sure I don't like that stuff, but I don't go out of my way to rip people that do. Why? The movie industry will survive even with remakes/reboots.

*sigh* Gonna make some popcorn, and read (the rest of) the same predictable hate comments that I usually see about COD that's on EVERY single Gamespot article. Seriously who cares! I'm sure your game that you happen to like is going to get remade too... *SMH*

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@Silver17 said:

I didn't vote in this poll, but all the people hating on COD around here is a real shocker. <- (Sarcasm BTW)

Literally ANYTHING "COD related" gets hated on by the Gamespot community.

Try any community. CoD is overall hated on by people who probably never play it.

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@hdnphr34k: Um, logic: why would people who hate it WANT to play it?

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@trialia said:

@hdnphr34k: Um, logic: why would people who hate it WANT to play it?

eh? I simply said it isn't just the gamespot community that hates it, but seems to be spread across the internet. Not sure how you got anything else from what I said.

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@hdnphr34k: hy hai

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BO2 topping this is the most fucktarded I've read for weeks.

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says alot about xbox users

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@West123: Or, you know, about Black Ops 2.

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@West123: shut up... COD is now on PS dick, so waves of the community are gonna be on PS, so dont act like PlayStation users are pure and incident

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Why? A new cod comes out every year, hell black ops 3 is coming out soon......

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@stu_gamer: I think that's why. Because of Black Ops 3, people will want to play Black Ops 1 and 2 before they dive into 3. Like a way to refresh their memories on the story.

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@coolmanmick: cod has a story?

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@evret84: Yes, it does. It's nothing spectecular, not horrible either.

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@aeluron1989: What videogame story has ever been spectacular?

The Last of Us is the best story I can remember, but it was still nothing special.

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i thought xbox has the best exclusives, and yet cod is on the top? meh

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Edited By Tresornibas

Look at all those Call of Duties -_-

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Edited By NTM23

I haven't voted on the thing, nor do I think I will. It does however make me wonder who is voting. Any Call of Duty would be the last thing I'd want as backwards compatible, not necessarily because I dislike them (I love the MW trilogy when it comes to the latest COD's), but they come out every year, and you can always go back as long as you keep your older system, which would be smart to do unless you have absolutely no room for it. I don't really care about backwards compatible this time around.

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Nooooooo. Battlefield 3 or Battlefield Bad Company 2 we need those games

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Really? something as STUPID as call of duty is most requested? I'm not surprised, there must be a lot of 10 year olds that really want to play call of duty with slightly better graphics.

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@ryan_hubbard: Backwards compatible won't make the game look better (well, it may or may not), so they should just stick to Advanced Warfare for now if that's the case, also, as a correction if you're curious and don't want to incorrectly CAPITALIZE letters (as that's just used if there are no other options), there is bold and italicize to use on the top of the comment.

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@ryan_hubbard: Got to think, there is a ton of people that think Trump is great and love going on to forums or youtube videos to talk trash in the attempts of hurting people and get fun out of it. Just shows how many idiots are out there, thousands of them, so of course call of duty will hit the top at least once...

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@Xorbius: Trump running for president is like a comments section running for president, so yeah.

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I'd prefer black ops 1, but at least it's in the top five

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This gives me a reason to replay my old games from scratch.
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Fight Night Champion is where it's at.

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Skyrim, Halo: Reach and Mass Effect 3, would be the top three for me.

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@justicar_1: while I wasn't disappointed by ME3 like so many others were, it is interesting that it made #11

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@streamline: bah mass effects 3s ending was perfectly fine if a cheap way to end a series cause they just wanted to leave it to the players imagination.. heck has anyone seen rages ending now that sucked.. i assume the ending was created the way it was becuase they always intended to create future mass effect titles

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@streamline: Yeah, I get what you're saying, it seemed that a lot of people were disappointed with the game but I feel it was just a boisterous minority. I love the game and I played the shit out of it, so yeah I would love on the Xbone.

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Uh.. The Black Ops II and III I dont even want on their original platform.. but thats personal opinion all the way of course :D COD MW2 on the other hand... bring it on! :D

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Forza 4, Forza 3, F1 2012, F1 2013

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Mass effect trilogy

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Funny how this is the most requested game for backwards capability and alot of the games on this list is COD, but the majority of people on the internet are crying about how "shitty" COD is. And on top of that, you still got people bitchin about COD on these comments below. yea nice try, trying hide your inner fanboy

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@watchdogsrules: It's almost as if the people who comment and the people who vote on those have differing opinions. Crazy, right?

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