Every week Microsoft and certain publishers discount numerous games for Xbox Live users. Some deals are available only to Xbox Live Gold members and others are available to anyone who utilizes the service through a Spotlight sale. A wide variety of titles, ranging from small experiences to massive blockbusters, are available for substantially less. This week, prominent backward compatible games like Battlefield 3 and Red Dead Redemption are on sale. Here's a look at some popular backward compatible titles.
Xbox 360
- Battlefield 3 | 75 percent
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 75 percent
- BioShock | 60 percent
- BioShock 2 | 60 percent
- BioShock Infinite | 70 percent
- Borderlands | 60 percent
- Borderlands 2 | 60 percent
- Bully: Scholarship Edition | 60 percent
- Burnout Revenge | 30 percent
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | 25 percent
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 67 percent
- Call of Duty: Black Ops | 50 percent
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | 25 percent
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | 50 percent
- Call of Duty: World at War | 50 percent
- Dante's Inferno | 67 percent
- The Darkness II | 80 percent
- Dead Rising 2: Case West | 30 percent
- Dead Rising 2: Case Zero | 30 percent
- Dead Space | 75 percent
- Dead Space 2 | 75 percent
- Dead Space 3 | 75 percent
- Deux Ex: Human Revolution | 90 percent
- Dragon Age 2 | 60 percent
- Dragon Age: Origins | 75 percent
- DuckTales: Remastered | 75 percent
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | 35 percent
- Just Cause 2 | 90 percent
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light | 75 percent
- Mafia II | 75 percent
- Mass Effect 2 | 70 percent
- Mass Effect 3 | 70 percent
- Medal of Honor: Airborne | 67 percent
- Mega Man 9 | 60 percent
- Mega Man 10 | 60 percent
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles | 35 percent
- Mirror's Edge* | 67 percent
- Prey | 80 percent
- Red Dead Redemption* | 67 percent
- Red Faction: Armageddon – Path to War | 85 percent
- Red Faction: Armageddon – Ruin Pack | 85 percent
- Red Faction: Armageddon | 85 percent
- Red Faction: Battlegrounds | 90 percent
- Sonic & Knuckles | 33 percent
- Sonic Adventure | 50 percent
- Sonic Adventure 2 | 50 percent
- Sonic CD | 50 percent
- Sonic Generations* | 50 percent
- Sonic the Fighters | 50 percent
- Sonic the Hedgehog | 50 percent
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | 50 percent
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | 50 percent
- Spec Ops: The Line | 80 percent
- Street Fighter IV | 50 percent
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition | 60 percent
- Tomb Raider: Underworld | 90 percent
- XCOM: Enemy Within | 80 percent
*Xbox One X Enhanced
For the complete list visit Major Nelson. Search for the games on your Xbox One or Microsoft Store website to purchase them.
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