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All the legacy Activision games that could come to Xbox BC

intbal

Member
Spiderman games won't happen sadly Sony owns the IP
That is likely correct, with the one exception being the Ultimate Spider-Man game that appeared on the original Xbox.
That character is a different continuity from Sony's Spider-Man. The game was published by Marvel and Activision.
 

FoxMcChief

Gold Member
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El Muerto

Member
A new Gun would be day 1 for me. Last good western games were RDR and Call of Juarez Gunslinger. RDR2 didnt qualify as a real western imo.
 

SpokkX

Member
If Phil Spencer is a man of his word, he will re-establish the backwards compatibility program to add all the games from Original Xbox and Xbox 360 that they now have access to, having acquired Activision and all of its properties.
This is a substantial number of games.
When they ended the BC program, they claim they had exhausted the source of obtainable rights for additional games. That hurdle is gone now for a large number of games.
Phil has previously made claims that he is in favor of game preservation and that backwards compatibility is one way to achieve that.
To that end, Xbox should look to see which new games can be added to their library.

I have put together an incomplete list of games that were published by Activision or its subsidiaries for the Original Xbox and Xbox 360.
Some of these are obvious adds, since Microsoft will own absolutely every portion of the games involved (ex. Return to Castle Wolfenstein).
Others will still have licensing issues that can't be resolved, such as music and car model rights, and perhaps actor royalties.
But there would still be great value to the Xbox platform to add as many of the following games to backwards compatibility as they can.

007: Blood Stone
007: Legends
007: Quantum of Solace
4x4 Evo 2
50 Cent: Bulletproof
Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction
American Chopper
American Chopper 2: Full Throttle
Angry Birds Trilogy
Apache Air Assault
Bakugan: Battle Brawlers
Bakugan: Defenders of the Core
Band Hero
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue
Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Bass 2007
Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Hunter 2007
Battleship
Battlestar Galactica
Bee Movie Game
Bicycle Casino
Blade II
Blur
Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Cabela's Adventure Camp
Cabela's African Safari
Cabela's Big Game Hunter
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012
Cabela's Big Game Hunter: Pro Hunts
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2004 Season
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2005 Season
Cabela's Hunting Expeditions
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2009
Cabela's Trophy Bucks
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Chaotic: Shadow Warriors
Civil War: Secret Missions
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Nitro Kart
Crash of the Titans
Crash Tag Team Racing
Crash Twinsanity
Crash: Mind over Mutant
Deadpool
Die Hard: Vendetta
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
DJ Hero
DreamWorks Shark Tale
Dreamworks Super Star Kartz
Enclave
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Eragon
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse
Fantastic 4
Fast & Furious: Showdown
Fight Club
FlatOut
FlatOut 2
Futurama
Generator Rex: Agent of Providence
GoldenEye 007: Reloaded
Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball
Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Gun
Hot Wheels: Beat That!
How to Train Your Dragon
Hulk
Hunter: The Reckoning - Redeemer
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
James Cameron's Dark Angel
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Jurassic: The Hunted
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
Kung Fu Panda
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Little League World Series Baseball 2010
Mace Griffin: Bouny Hunter
Madagascar
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2
Men of Valor
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
MIB: Alien Crisis
Minority Report: Everybody Runs
Monster Garage
Monster Jam
MTV Pimp My Ride
MTX Mototrax
NASCAR The Game 2011
NASCAR: Unleashed
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
Over the Hedge
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
Predator: Concrete Jungle
Prototype
Prototype 2
Quake 4
Rally Fusion: Race of Champions
Rapala Pro Fishing
Rapala's Fishing Frenzy
Red Ninja: End of Honor
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
Robots
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Secret Service
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
Shrek 2
Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter
Shrek Smash N' Crash Racing
Shrek SuperSlam
Shrek the Third
Shrek-N-Roll
Singularity
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
Soldier of Fortune: Payback
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man: Edge of Time
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
Spyro: A Hero's Tail
Starsky & Hutch
Street Hoops
SWAT: Global Strike Team
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2013
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Tenchu: Return from Darkness
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
The History Channel: Civil War - A Nation Divided
The Hobbit
The Hustle: Detroit Streets
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (360)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
The Simpsons: Road Rage
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Thing
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk: Ride
Tony Hawk: Shred
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: The Game
Transformers: War for Cybertron
True Crime: New York City
True Crime: Streets of LA
Ty3 the Tasmanian Tiger: Night of the Quinkan
Ultimate Spider-Man
Van Helsing
Vigilante 8: Arcade
Wakeboarding Unleashed
Wipeout 2
Wipeout 3
Wolfenstein (2009)
World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker 2008
World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: Destiny
X-Men: Legends
X-Men: Legends II - Rise of Apocalypse
X-Men: Next Dimension
X-Men: The Official Game
X2: Wolverine's Revenge


I thought alphabetical order was the best choice, since it would be messy (and take a lot more time) to arrange them by platform, year, and publishing subsidiary.
Again, this isn't a complete list. Activision owned a LOT of stuff. But it's all I could find before I got sick of looking.

I have no idea why Shrek games were ever so popular
So uh.. that sure is quantity. But really mostly trash tier games

I would try

Chronicles of Riddick
Quake 4
Wolfensteins
… and uh maybe Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Remember it was a good game
 

Naked Lunch

Member
You are 1 in 1.000.000 I think. I never heard anybody actually using back compatibility.
Yeah. Listen to this guy. No one ever plays old games ever. He never heard of anyone using it, EVER.

Listen pal, im playing games on my Series X that I purchased way back in 2007 (Castlevania SOTN) - or even older with my 2002 physical copy of Panzer Dragoon Orta.
Can you say the same of the other "Big Two"?
 

the_master

Member
If Phil Spencer is a man of his word, he will re-establish the backwards compatibility program to add all the games from Original Xbox and Xbox 360 that they now have access to, having acquired Activision and all of its properties.
This is a substantial number of games.
When they ended the BC program, they claim they had exhausted the source of obtainable rights for additional games. That hurdle is gone now for a large number of games.
Phil has previously made claims that he is in favor of game preservation and that backwards compatibility is one way to achieve that.
To that end, Xbox should look to see which new games can be added to their library.

I have put together an incomplete list of games that were published by Activision or its subsidiaries for the Original Xbox and Xbox 360.
Some of these are obvious adds, since Microsoft will own absolutely every portion of the games involved (ex. Return to Castle Wolfenstein).
Others will still have licensing issues that can't be resolved, such as music and car model rights, and perhaps actor royalties.
But there would still be great value to the Xbox platform to add as many of the following games to backwards compatibility as they can.

007: Blood Stone
007: Legends
007: Quantum of Solace
4x4 Evo 2
50 Cent: Bulletproof
Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction
American Chopper
American Chopper 2: Full Throttle
Angry Birds Trilogy
Apache Air Assault
Bakugan: Battle Brawlers
Bakugan: Defenders of the Core
Band Hero
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue
Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Bass 2007
Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Hunter 2007
Battleship
Battlestar Galactica
Bee Movie Game
Bicycle Casino
Blade II
Blur
Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Cabela's Adventure Camp
Cabela's African Safari
Cabela's Big Game Hunter
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012
Cabela's Big Game Hunter: Pro Hunts
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2004 Season
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2005 Season
Cabela's Hunting Expeditions
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2009
Cabela's Trophy Bucks
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Chaotic: Shadow Warriors
Civil War: Secret Missions
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Nitro Kart
Crash of the Titans
Crash Tag Team Racing
Crash Twinsanity
Crash: Mind over Mutant
Deadpool
Die Hard: Vendetta
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
DJ Hero
DreamWorks Shark Tale
Dreamworks Super Star Kartz
Enclave
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Eragon
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse
Fantastic 4
Fast & Furious: Showdown
Fight Club
FlatOut
FlatOut 2
Futurama
Generator Rex: Agent of Providence
GoldenEye 007: Reloaded
Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball
Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Gun
Hot Wheels: Beat That!
How to Train Your Dragon
Hulk
Hunter: The Reckoning - Redeemer
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
James Cameron's Dark Angel
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Jurassic: The Hunted
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
Kung Fu Panda
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Little League World Series Baseball 2010
Mace Griffin: Bouny Hunter
Madagascar
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2
Men of Valor
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
MIB: Alien Crisis
Minority Report: Everybody Runs
Monster Garage
Monster Jam
MTV Pimp My Ride
MTX Mototrax
NASCAR The Game 2011
NASCAR: Unleashed
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
Over the Hedge
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
Predator: Concrete Jungle
Prototype
Prototype 2
Quake 4
Rally Fusion: Race of Champions
Rapala Pro Fishing
Rapala's Fishing Frenzy
Red Ninja: End of Honor
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
Robots
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Secret Service
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
Shrek 2
Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter
Shrek Smash N' Crash Racing
Shrek SuperSlam
Shrek the Third
Shrek-N-Roll
Singularity
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
Soldier of Fortune: Payback
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man: Edge of Time
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
Spyro: A Hero's Tail
Starsky & Hutch
Street Hoops
SWAT: Global Strike Team
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2013
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Tenchu: Return from Darkness
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
The History Channel: Civil War - A Nation Divided
The Hobbit
The Hustle: Detroit Streets
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (360)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
The Simpsons: Road Rage
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Thing
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk: Ride
Tony Hawk: Shred
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: The Game
Transformers: War for Cybertron
True Crime: New York City
True Crime: Streets of LA
Ty3 the Tasmanian Tiger: Night of the Quinkan
Ultimate Spider-Man
Van Helsing
Vigilante 8: Arcade
Wakeboarding Unleashed
Wipeout 2
Wipeout 3
Wolfenstein (2009)
World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker 2008
World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: Destiny
X-Men: Legends
X-Men: Legends II - Rise of Apocalypse
X-Men: Next Dimension
X-Men: The Official Game
X2: Wolverine's Revenge


I thought alphabetical order was the best choice, since it would be messy (and take a lot more time) to arrange them by platform, year, and publishing subsidiary.
Again, this isn't a complete list. Activision owned a LOT of stuff. But it's all I could find before I got sick of looking.

I have no idea why Shrek games were ever so popular
Wreckless, mace griffin, tony hawks, Riddick, Crash Team Racing, and wipeout?
Great stuff in there!
 
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Evil Calvin

Afraid of Boobs
Most of these are licenced IPs so likely most of these aren't happening.
I don't understand how this works. If they paid for the license to make a game. Why is it an issue to make it available on other devices. They paid a fee to make the game. It's not like they are making a new game. If they resell it, is it any different than them reselling to original 360 games? Give the license holder a 50% cut them. Win-Win!!
 

Three

Member
I don't understand how this works. If they paid for the license to make a game. Why is it an issue to make it available on other devices. They paid a fee to make the game. It's not like they are making a new game. If they resell it, is it any different than them reselling to original 360 games? Give the license holder a 50% cut them. Win-Win!!
A lot of games licence an IP for a number of years then when that license expires and it's not renewed it gets delisted from the store. For a subscription service that usually means a different new license too. The IP owner often has control over where their property is distributed.
 

BootsLoader

Banned
Yeah. Listen to this guy. No one ever plays old games ever. He never heard of anyone using it, EVER.

Listen pal, im playing games on my Series X that I purchased way back in 2007 (Castlevania SOTN) - or even older with my 2002 physical copy of Panzer Dragoon Orta.
Can you say the same of the other "Big Two"?
Yo bro, listen to me ya? Will ya? Yo, you play that old game, maybe you’re 2 of 2.000.000. Play newer game so you may got some bitches in your d***k. /s

Serious talk (are you kidding me or you are talking seriously).
Are you really playing those games or pretending?
 

BootsLoader

Banned
I use it a lot

I've finished playthroughs of
Blue Dragon
Brütal Legend
Crackdown
Crackdown 2
BINARY DOMAIN
BioShock 2
BioShock Infinite
Fable Anniversary
Fable II
Psychonauts
SpongeBob SquarePants Truth or Square
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Zuma's Revenge

all thanks to back compat, plus purchased and dabbled with a bunch of other games I didn't end up seeing through to the end.

Also the best version of Deadly Premonition is the 360 emulation on a Series X

I love back compat. I wish more of my library was supported by it. Plus, a lot of BC games are on deep sales pretty frequently. I just bought Max Payne 3 a couple days ago for only $7
Well done on buying a new console and playing games of previous decade on it. So far, there are 3 in 30.000.000 (or how many Xboxes are sold so far).
 

Drew1440

Member
Activision were very proactive in making their older games backwards compatible. Any remaining games would either have licencing issues or were incompatible.
 

Kilau

Member
MS can’t even deal with the licensing on their own, far more recent games (FH1, 2, 3). I don’t think we should expect many if any licensed games from ABK to be made available again.
 

Bridges

Member
Well done on buying a new console and playing games of previous decade on it. So far, there are 3 in 30.000.000 (or how many Xboxes are sold so far).
Yup, you're right, we're the only three people that use backwards compatibility. All the extra waves after the initial batch? Those were for us. Oh, and the 4K updates and FPS boosts? Just for us too. MS really cares about the three of us more than anyone else.

You're also right that those are the only games I have played on my Series X. I spent $500 to exclusively play old games. It isn't the case that I've played significantly more modern games than BC titles at all, I haven't touched a single one.

Gimme a break man. This is like if you told me you don't believe that anyone listens to music that came out before 2013. Those games didn't just suddenly become terrible and not worth playing when new hardware came out.
 

intbal

Member
Activision were very proactive in making their older games backwards compatible. Any remaining games would either have licencing issues or were incompatible.
?
Activision were terrible with permitting their games to be backwards compatible.
They only allowed 22 games to be on the BC list.
They published more than 200 games on Xbox/Xbox360.
 

Havoc2049

Member

Fox Mulder

Member
You are 1 in 1.000.000 I think. I never heard anybody actually using back compatibility.

Who cares.

MS had a big effort into 360 backwards compatibility and stopped after hitting a wall with mostly games remaining being from licensing or technical limitations. Buying Activision will probably get a new batch of games added to it.
 
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BootsLoader

Banned
Yup, you're right, we're the only three people that use backwards compatibility. All the extra waves after the initial batch? Those were for us. Oh, and the 4K updates and FPS boosts? Just for us too. MS really cares about the three of us more than anyone else.

You're also right that those are the only games I have played on my Series X. I spent $500 to exclusively play old games. It isn't the case that I've played significantly more modern games than BC titles at all, I haven't touched a single one.

Gimme a break man. This is like if you told me you don't believe that anyone listens to music that came out before 2013. Those games didn't just suddenly become terrible and not worth playing when new hardware came out.
Ok man I give you a break.
 

BootsLoader

Banned
Who cares.

MS had a big effort into 360 backwards compatibility and stopped after hitting a wall with mostly games remaining being from licensing or technical limitations. Buying Activision will probably get a new batch of games added to it.
I agree, and that is all to it.
 

Bojanglez

The Amiga Brotherhood
What a crazy list, when you see it, you realise how much they must have wanted CoD, because outside of licensed stuff there isn't a while lot there.

They of course will have all the Blizzard and King stuff too, and I doubt they're too bothered about old stuff anyway. They'll resurrect a few franchises no doubt and that will be fine.
 

JackMcGunns

Member
Below are the ones they have full ownership of:

- Crash Bandicoot
- Spyro the Dragon
- Guitar Hero
- Hexen
- King’s Quest
- Space Quest
- Quest for Glory
- Tenchu
- Pitfall
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater
- Zork
- Call of Duty
- Candy Crush
- StarCraft
- WarCraft
- Diablo
- Gabriel Knight
- Overwatch
- Hearthstone
- Phantasmagoria
- The Lost Vikings
- True Crime
- Interstate 76
- Skylanders
- Prototype
- Blackthorne
- Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
 

PSFan

Member
The Atari Flashback Classics games were published on Xbox One. That would have included some of them.
I didn't want to have to pick my way through every Activision Atari game and look for ownership rights.
There were other things I left off the list, too.
Like all those f#&ing Skylanders games.
I also should have left off the Guitar Hero games and all the Kinect v1 games. Since nothing like that is going to be made backwards compatible on newer systems.

I have the Flashback Classics for Switch and no, the Activision games were not included, just first party Atari games.
 

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Isnt the Xbox BC program dead already?


P.S Im a weirdo, I really want Tony Hawks Project 8.
tumblr_7ca76f545db5fd5838da272c2d3e71dd_cb39ca23_1280.jpg
 

YeulEmeralda

Linux User
So uh.. that sure is quantity. But really mostly trash tier games

I would try

Chronicles of Riddick
Quake 4
Wolfensteins
… and uh maybe Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Remember it was a good game
Riddick was pulled from GOG so it's probably in copyright limbo.
 

intbal

Member
Riddick was pulled from GOG so it's probably in copyright limbo.
Which version was that? The original release or the Dark Athena remake?
Activision only published the version that was on the Original Xbox. Atari published the newer version on 360 and Windows.
 
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