Xbox game releases — February 22nd to 28th

There always seems to be one or two titles on the list that don't include the fact they will be playable on XSXS. This week it is:
Baobabs Mausoleum Grindhouse Edition - Country of Woods and Creepy Tales
RetroMania Wrestling

Only games that require Kinect cannot be played on XSXS.

I'm sure most people here would agree the perfect way to classify the games on this list would be:
- Xbox One (does not use Smart Delivery, but can be played on XSXS through backward compatibility)
- Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (uses Smart Delivery)
- Xbox Series X|S (cannot be played on Xbox One, or it is a remaster of an Xbox One game with a new achievement list)

Run a survey if you want to be sure.

HolyHalfDead said:It's not as easy as that, unfortunately. Smart Delivery is not the only metric that determines a game that has both XB1 and X|S versions (even big third-party titles like Cold War and FIFA 21 don't support Smart Delivery) and since so much of our data, especially on formats, comes direct from the MS Store - where they list every format a game is playable on, hence why we do - we can never tell just from that data whether or not a given game will be playable on X|S via back-compat or via an enhanced version. Best solution might be to have something on the game panels here that indicates whether each game uses Smart Delivery or not... I'll bring that up with the dev team next week.

I’m all about some wrestling

What a sorry bunch of crap...... what is the point in next gen consoles when they are just pushing out games the mega drive would of run.....

Been waiting for RetroMania Wrestling since July(original release date), hopefully it lives up to the hype.

BTW, the achievement list was recently released and it's awesome. I can't wait to unlock the "Innovator of Violence" achievement!

prowlerdante said:Actually Sega is publishing this title in Japan so they must be on board with it.

Was there really clamoring for yet another Aery game?

Taxi Chaos Nintendo would not put up with this type of crap!

Forzatographer said:Looks like it's a fairly simple list too. Looking forward to this actually. Favorite achievement name was "Killin the Biz".

https://youtu.be/dxm9AG4msig

LIFTY187um said:Cos its piss easy money for alot of indie devs to release the same pixelated retro looking crap with easy achs cos alot of ppl snap them up. Its why i wish they didnt all have 1000gs attached cos the store is oversaturated with garbage. Ms seems to put anything on the store now. Literally zero quality control

Eurydace said:I’m with you on this. The MS store is not very good for people who are trying to make informed decisions about which games to buy.

When I search other websites I’m inundated with ads that have nothing to do with the games I’m interested in buying & tend to overlay the pertinent information. TA articles are to the point (shout out to the entire news team) &, being a pro member, I don’t have to worry about ads.

BadRubberPiggy said:Good man.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a great example of an exception that breaks my rule Are there any other games like this or could TA handle this exception manually.

FIFA 21 on the other hand is two games (doesn't matter if they are released on the same day, or years apart):
FIFA 21 (Xbox One) (does not use Smart Delivery, but can be played on XSXS through backward compatibility)
FIFA 21 (cannot be played on Xbox One, or it is a remaster of an Xbox One game with a new achievement list)

Unlike CoD Cold War, Just Dance 2021 is two games sold for a combined price:
Just Dance 2021 (Xbox One)
Just Dance 2021
Same for Control Ultimate Edition.

TA does already know which games support Smart Delivery link hidden so just adding that to the panel would be a huge improvement to all us XSXS owners

And as we already know a game can launch as "Xbox One" and later become "Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One". We may even get games that launch as "Xbox Series X|S" that later become "Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One". Although I can only think of a couple of Xbox One games that were a timed exclusive, such as:
LocoCycle (22 Nov 2013)
LocoCycle (Xbox 360) (14 Feb 2014)

HolyHalfDead said:Major releases that 'break the rules' like CoD we can 100% handle manually, but smaller games that do so are much harder to track for us, hence why this is so difficult. I do think that a Smart Delivery tag on these (where relevant) would really help, but again, that would be based on a combination of store data and team knowledge, so it would still be fallible. Will see what we can do, though!

NO1KEV said:Totally agree, gamer score is dead now because of this.

Hmm, more Souls-like games for me please.

Looking forward to Killer Queen Black, based on an excellent modern arcade game. Retromania Wrestling looks great as well, a pseudo-sequal to WWF Wrestlefest.

Few there to keep an eye out for, Metal Gladiators and the Horny Knight look sound pretty interesting. I just bought a couple of roguelites, wouldn't mind some more if ole Horny is one it will be a buy. I don't care for watching vids on games, old school, I just buy em. One of the recent purchases was a bit of a flop (Synthetic...something or other) but Heroes of Hammersmith is a great little game, my second gamble! Any AAA purchases I will read about, don't want any vids. Obviously I don't expect many to share that approach to games so some kind of video for others is probably a good idea.

Curse of the Dead Gods looks like the best of the lot and it ain't close (altho I'll at least give some time to Killer Queen Black).

PuckJunkie said:Must include bad habit

Katana Kata is about 20% off so I pre-ordered it.

Remember the 360 days, when AAA and AA games were released on a regular basis? Now, we hardly get those games anymore, and instead get these types of games that would easily run on a PS1.