With the game's early hours at least, Microsoft's backwards compatibility technology can make all the difference. Out of the box, it's not great, but as the hours of play mount up, Morrowind's performance and loading times gradually degrade.
You see, as ambitious as it was for the time, the problem is that Morrowind just doesn't run very well on the original Xbox. With its built-in hard drive and PC-like hardware, the Xbox made a lot of sense as a target for a vast Elder Scrolls experience - at least on paper. It's also is the game which helped pave the way for the likes of Skyrim and many other titles. Beyond the quality of the game itself, this is the first time a large scale, PC-style RPG would be realised on console hardware. Helmed by the immortal Todd Howard, Morrowind is an important title in the history of The Elder Scrolls series.
The Xbox One backwards compatibility programme has thrown up plenty of surprises so far, but this one really is quite remarkable - Microsoft's enhanced version of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is one of the best examples of the boost to image quality and performance that today's hardware delivers when running yesterday's games.
