Although I found Xbox Live very polished on my first encounter with it, for various reasons I’ve not been near it since.
That all changed today when my recently purchased copy of Halo 2 arrived. Now I’ve played Halo 2 (although not completed it), and I’ve played it over system link, but this was my first experience of it ‘Live’. Once again I impressed by the quality of the service, and I was also pleased that I didn’t get completely humiliated on the couple of quickmatches I played.
I know that the Live experience is very dependent on the title in question (EA games – especially the racing games – are notoriously bad), but this was painless and enjoyable.
They’ve also extended Live to include the new Gamer Card (mine’s below) which, unfortunately, you need an Xbox 360 to get the full benefit from, and I don’t need to comment about how likely you are to have one of those!
