Red Dead Redemption rides again via Xbox One backwards compatibility
Those wanting to get back on the saddle can follow these simple steps to start playing the game right now.
Xbox One owners who have made regular use of its backwards compatibility feature have been clamoring for Rockstar Games’ stable of titles to be available through the feature ever since it was first announced. Today, we’re learning the publisher’s open-world western, Red Dead Redemption, is not only coming to the Xbox One through backwards compatibility, but you can play it right now, as long as you follow some steps to access it.
According to NeoGAF users, all you’ll need to do is search for the gamertag “rockohoward.” Once you find that user, proceed to view their profile and find Red Dead Redemption. Once you do, you can install the game onto your Xbox One, that is as long as you own the digital version of the game in the past.
Red Dead Redemption isn’t the only game to have been preemptively released as Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 are also available to download using the same method mentioned above. If you own either of those titles, then you should also go ahead and download those as well.
This isn't the first time an Xbox One backwards compatible game had been made available prior to Microsoft's official announcement. Fable III was one game to be made available prior to its official release, and while we recently were made aware Left 4 Dead 2 can be downloaded, Microsoft has yet to officially make it available.
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Undead Nightmare was super broken last I tried to play it. The updates they did for the online mode made it a buggy mess, and they never bothered to fix it. I think if they support the GOTY version it will be up to date and patched as it just verifies the disc and downloads all the stuff anyway, so it probably would be the broken version.
That brings up a good question though, what happens to the DLC for these games?-
Honestly, if you have a 360 lying around and the GOTY version on disc, just hook up the 360 and play the disc version offline so it can't pull any update.
When I say broken I mean broken. 70% of the expansion revolves around you going from town to town and saving them from zombie hordes. And with the last patches, it can and will glitch out so the hordes of enemies never stop coming and you cannot progress. The only thing you can do is quit the game and restart and hope you get through one section at a time fast enough before it glitches out again, which it will.
When the glitches start, you'll also see headless and armless bodies, people turning into different models (including animals), animations breaking, so on. But the big killer is how it halts your ability to progress. The zombie killing gameplay is repetitive enough without having to do every section over again and again because the game is constantly bugging out.
Shame too, because the story is a fun and silly b-horror take with the same cast, and there's a nice spooky change in atmosphere for the whole world. It was one of my go to October / Halloween games until they broke it all with the final patches. I need to look into how I can remove the patches on 360 without wiping everything else out, and play it again sans update.-
That's really terrible because Undead Nightmare absolutely owns.
You can remove title updates on 360 by clearing the system cache somewhere in the settings, though be warned that it'll wipe out all title updates for everything you have installed (not a huge deal since patches are so small and quick to download on 360).
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So I've tried this and the only game I could install is Alan Wake: American Nightmare. I'm pretty sure I own Castlevania: SotN and Halo Wars digitally but they show up as Unavailable in the store. For RDR which I don't own digitally I see Bundle Only in the store and it can't be purchased from the Xbone. Need to do it through their website or a 360, I guess.
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