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...Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten states in a letter to customers that, as recompense for nearly two weeks of outages, the group is offering up a full, free Xbox Live Arcade title free of charge. #
As someone finding finding games in Call of Duty 4 a real headache I can certainly attest to the ropeyness of XBL at the moment. I'm not sure I really want a free game as compensation though. Just get it working MS.
I've not had much of a chance to play Halo the last couple of days due in part to Open Mic Night but I shall today. You can see my Halo stats here.
I started Halo on Heroic (I think it was Heroic, not the most difficult setting anyway) and unaware that my 360 wasn't online I launched myself into the single player mode. About 30 minutes in I noticed the 360 was offline and connected the ethernet cable to take it online. The 360 dutifully told me it needed to update and I let it. It did warn me that it might need to reboot but I let it go anyway, assuming it had saved my process. How wrong was I? Nope, it hadn't saved and I had to redo the previous half hour. Not a major problem, but annoying nonetheless.
Aside from that little outing and a couple of games online I took it over to a friends and we LANd their Elite and my Premium together with each of our copies of Halo 3 for a 2 TV, 4 player split screen set of deathmatches - FUN!
I've had my new Xbox 360 for a whole weekend so it's clearly time to reflect on the experience thus far. I'm sure I'm bringing nothing new to the 360 table as it's been out for years but this is my first serious experience with it.
I now have an Xbox 360. Quick initial notes, it took a while to set up, typing with the controller is a pain. It's kind of cludgy in a Microsoft way but does some clever stuff with the friends flashing up and voice messages etc. Oh and here's my 360's blog - as is popular.
