One of these things is not like the others

Good news, everyone!The Darknesscan now be played on Xbox One! The game joins the ever-growing catalog of backward compatible titles that are playable on Microsoft’s newer box. The bad news?Duke Nukem ForeverandThe Bureau: XCOM Declassifiedare also available. What a way to sour some good news.

I mean that in jest, but those other two shooters are some huge disappointments.Duke Nukem Foreverwas never going to live up to the 13 years of hype it had, but it thoroughly missed the point of what madeDuke Nukem 3Dso wonderful.XCOM Declassifiedis also another game that failed to understand what made its original series so popular and stuck to making a boring, drab and pointless shooter in an era dominated by many of the same things.

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If you want to relive those bad memories, you’ll have the chance to do so without pulling out the old Xbox 360. At leastThe Darknesshas a chance to shine because that game is seriously good.

The Darkness, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, and Duke Nukem Forever are coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility today (and all three are currently on sale)https://t.co/qPMRNs2ZLopic.twitter.com/z4sEROLxUs

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