Xbox's latest tactic in a string of, so far pretty successful, attempts to try and win users back onside is a website where people can wishlist games they wish were backwards compatible with the latest consoles. If Asha Sharma wants to continue winning over the Xbox audience, she'd better hope Hasbro is up for some negotiating, as all you seem to want are the Xbox 360-era Transformers games.
Transformers Games Top Xbox's Backwards Compatibility Wishlist
The Xbox Game Preservation site has now been live for a little while. If there are games from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 that you want to play on the Series X|S and Project Helix that aren't currently available, that's where you need to make your voice heard, and so far, the loudest voices belong to Transformers fans.
Momentary Xbox Store Glitch Relisted Old Backwards Compatible Titles
The titles had already been delisted, but for a brief moment they were back online.
More than 300,000 votes have been cast so far, and the frontrunner right now for the most-wanted backwards compatible game is Transformers: War for Cybertron, with more than 8,000 votes. Right behind it is its sequel, Fall of Cybertron, with around 7,700 votes. You've then got The Simpsons: Hit & Run to break things up before a run of four more Transformers games - Devastation, Dark of the Moon, Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: The Game.
I considered taking this opportunity to say there were too many Transformers games on Xbox 360, but the desire to make all of them playable on modern consoles would suggest my opinion is wrong.
If you focus solely on the 360 leaderboard, Transformers' backwards compatible wishlist domination is even more apparent. With no Hit & Run to spoil the party, all six top spots on the 360 leaderboard are occupied by Transformers games, with a seventh, Rise of the Dark Spark, sneaking into the top ten.
Activision Published Transformers Games On Xbox 360
The good news for anyone hoping Xbox actually uses this list to make things happen is that all of these Transformers games were published by Activision, a studio Xbox now owns. However, it's likely the process of making the titles backwards compatible will be more difficult than finding them on an old USB at Activision HQ so that someone with the know-how to do so can work their magic.
No, since Transformers is a major IP with ownership rights all over the place due to its movies, toys, and video games, nailing down how exactly Xbox can legally revive those 360 games will almost certainly be one big mess. There might be a way to make it happen, though, and eventually, Xbox will need to do more than polish its achievement badges and give people a website to wish for backwards compatible games to convince people it still has what it takes to compete in the console space.
Putting the legwork into making these Transformers games available on the Xbox Store would seemingly be a more convincing step in the right direction than you might have thought based on these results. Now, those Activision-published Spider-Man games that are also a part of that 360 top ten, finding a way to bring those back from the dead might well be impossible due to the web-slinger's ongoing affinity with PlayStation.
- Released
- June 22, 2010
- ESRB
- Teen
- Developer(s)
- High Moon Studios
- Publisher(s)
- High Moon Studios
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 3
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Third-Person Shooter, Adventure
