Red Dead Redemption On Xbox One Runs Better & Has Free DLC
It's pretty much a remaster and 'Game of the Year' edition all in one.
In the hands of any other developer (Radical, I'm looking at you after those shoddy Prototype upgrades), doing any further work to an older game and making it available on newer hardware would come with a price tag.
But thankfully, Rockstar are by no means, "any other developer". As such, Red Dead Redemption is the latest Xbox 360 title to be made playable on Xbox One, and better yet - it actually runs better. Check out DigitalFoundry's comparison below, and you'll note the Xbox One version keeps a steady 30fps almost constantly, whereas the 360 version is seen to dip, sometimes even in cutscenes.
Not only that, but hop across to the Xbox Live marketplace, and you'll see Rockstar have also made a huge amount of DLC free, simply to celebrate the title's launch on Xbox One. Legends and Killers, Liars and Cheats, Outlaws to the End, Myths and Mavericks and Hunting and Trading packs are all free as of time of writing, meaning even if you'd clocked the base RDR last time around, there's a ton of new content to get stuck into.
Praise be to Rockstar. THIS is how backwards compatibility should work - not charging another healthy sum simply for the sake of an incrementally improved framerate or slightly less-muddy texture. Good on them!
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