I would add Wreckfest to that list if you want a game with demolition derby and banger racing. It feels like the spiritual successor to Test Drive Eve of Destruction

I remember the burning lap with the F1 car being the race that I couldn’t beat as a kid. Now I’ll have to go back and try it again

I haven’t played multiplayer in years so I’m not sure how it is but as far as I can tell it should be fine. If you haven’t ever played, there are some really frustrating bugs that will most likely never get fixed (things like items and vehicles falling through the terrain) but overall it is pretty fun and relaxing

• Minecraft
• Astroneer
• Skyrim
• Ratchet & Clank 2,3, or ToD

I can’t really describe what it is about R&C that I am just enamored by. I’ve played them on and off since the first game when I was 7+.

Thank you, I appreciate the response and insight. Hopefully they can iron out a lot of these problems for future titles

Good to know. Thank you for sharing

I know they have plans for many more games so hopefully they can refine issues like these because in my opinion they do a lot things very well.

100% this. I almost dropped it because it took half of the main quest line to do anything interesting. But once I got there I was enamored. My friend and I just played through the game for the first time and we both had the same opinion: the story of what is currently happening is boring. The story of what happened in the past to get to this point is amazing. They did a bad job of making me care about the present day characters.

As someone who just played horizon zero dawn and wound up loving it, what was your issue with Forbidden West?

I know at the beginning of Zero Dawn I wasn’t really digging the story, and it unfortunately took a while to get better, but when it did it was really good. I was glad the mechanics were enjoyable for me or else I wouldn’t have stuck around long enough

Big note for anyone who doesn’t know: the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility is only for a portion of the 360 library. There is a list of games that are compatible, including original Xbox games.

Also, if you have the disc, you will have to install games just like all other Xbox one games. But the games do not install from the disc. The disc is just the license key, and you will need an internet connection so it can download the game.

How it works is that it’s not exactly the same game, but a modified version for the Xbox one console. But this can come with performance enhancements and sometimes upscaling to make them look way better than they would on their respective system.

Very cool thing that Microsoft did, but do not expect any more games to be added on the list. Last I saw, they were done expanding the list.