Splinter Cell, Six Others Now Backwards Compatible
Kotaku reports that Microsoft has released Xbox 360 backwards compatibility emulators for seven more original Xbox games, all Ubisoft titles. They are:
- Ghost Recon 2
- Ghost Recon 2 Summitt Strike
- Rainbow Six 3
- Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow
- Splinter Cell
- Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Many considered Splinter Cell to be a major hole in the list, so great to hear that they filled it. Major Nelson has more, including that there is a bug when running Halo 2 widescreen in resolutions higher than 480p that they are working on.
Damn, I need Major Nelson’s commenting plugin…



[…] There was also a brief flurry when a backward compatibility update that added 7 new games, broke Halo 2. The update was briefly withdrawn, but has now been fixed. […]
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