Microsoft has been busy making more and more Xbox 360 titles playable on Xbox One, and now, it has added one of last generation's best horror games to the ever-growing list of backwards compatible titles.
That title is none other than Dead Space, developer Visceral's 2008 sci-fi horror game that would go on to spawn two sequels, spin-offs and an animated film. Combining the intense third-person shooting action of Resident Evil 4 with the space horror of cinema classic Alien, Dead Space gripped more than a few players when it first released.
If you already have a copy of the game or bought it digitally, you're in luck: you can start playing it on your Xbox One right now. If you don't, no need to worry. The game is going to be free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers starting April 1, so players will be able to snag a digital copy of the title that way as well.
Dead Space is just the latest game to go backwards compatible in March. Cooperative horror game Left 4 Dead 2 became backwards compatible earlier this week. Last week, the long-requested Halo Wars became backwards compatible, as did fighting games Soul Calibur II and King of Fighters '98.
Previously, Microsoft released backwards compatible games in batches at the end of every month, but the company recently started releasing new games for the list as soon as they became available. It's for that reason five Xbox 360 games have become backwards compatible in the last two weeks.
There are still a number of frequently-requested games that have yet to make the jump to backwards compatibility, most notably Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Rockstar's open-world western Red Dead Redemption. The latter did momentarily become backwards compatible, thanks to a mistake on Microsoft's end, only to be taken down for further testing. That at least confirms that a backwards compatible Red Dead Redemption is on the way. Considering how there has recently been talk of a Red Dead Redemption 2 being announced at E3 this summer, a backwards compatible version of the original would certainly make sense.
