25 Years Later, How Many Of These Original Xbox Launch Titles Have You Played?
Welcome to the month of Xbox’s 25th anniversary! Xbox will be celebrating that milestone officially on November 15th, but before we get there, we thought we’d use the chance to highlight the very first games that ever launched on Xbox.
To do that, we’re going back to the initial list of North American Xbox launch titles, of which there were 20 in all. Some of them are obvious standouts, such as Halo: Combat Evolved, Fuzion Frenzy, Dead or Alive 3 and Project Gotham Racing, while others are more obscure – Arctic Thunder, Dark Summit, Mad Dash Racing, etc.
Here’s the full list of all 20 launch titles:
- 4×4 Evo 2
- Airforce Delta Storm
- Arctic Thunder
- Cel Damage
- Dark Summit
- Dead or Alive 3
- Fuzion Frenzy
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Mad Dash Racing
- Madden NFL 2002
- Nascar Heat 2002
- Nascar Thunder 2002
- NFL Fever 2002
- NHL Hitz 2002
- Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee
- Project Gotham Racing
- Shrek
- Test Drive Off-Road: Wide Open
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2x
- TransWorld Surf
Now, of course, some of these games are still playable to this day on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, while others have always remained locked to the original Xbox. The likes of Project Gotham Racing, Shrek and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2x are highly-requested additions to the Xbox backwards compatibility library, but it seems unlikely they’ll ever make the cut at this point – almost certainly due to licensing reasons.
However, you may not know that games like Cel Damage and Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee are still playable to this day on modern consoles, and they’re still well worth checking out despite their age.
So, how many of these original Xbox launch titles have you played? Let us know down in the comments section below, and please do give us your recommendations with some of the obscure ones – NHL Hitz is still one of my faves!
