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Well I bit the bullet last week and aquired a xbox360 to play racing, fighting and various other "pick up and play" games on.
Seeing as I never used the live service on the xbox I thought last night I would fire up the sign-up and take advantage of the free month that I got given.
The sign-up process was fairly straight forward, but for some reason it was not accepting my hotmail address as the passport login. So, a quick ring to Microsoft on the freephone number provided was required. The call was answered within 20 seconds to which I was truely shocked.
After chatting and telling him that I had setup the router correctly with the IP addresses allocated manually as opposed to using DCHP with uPnP active and also the DMZ pointing to the IP of the console but still couldn't sign in. After checking a few things he just said "ahh... try now" and as soon as I pressed the button it logged in and my account was ready and waiting.
So - after fiddling with the dashboard and downloading quite a bit of free content - mainly the HD trailers for a few films and also the embrace world cup song I decided to load up burnout revenge and see what all this "xbox live" stuff was really about.
In went the headset to the bottom and burnout loaded and told me that it needed to be updated in order for the console to go online and play. Great I thought a nice 40 Mb PC style update so I picked up the pad and went to walk to the backdoor for a smoke break. Within a minute - Burnout was loaded and ready for action.
Oh and what action it was tooI have never had such a smile on my face for quite a while I can tell you. First session was a crash party scenario where I used my rubbish driving skills to their limit to create pile-ups and carnage on the maps. The 6 persons who I was against were in fact extremely polite, chatty and saw I had a 0 gamer score and kept asking how long I'd been on the live service and was this my first session.
Gamewise - there was no LAG, issues with Ping and it responded like I was playing the same people as if they were sat in my living room, not all over the UK and America.
Fast forward 4 hours and I was STILL playing a few rounds of burnout.
This xbox live malarkey is addictive... I can vouch for that. Roll on the arcade release of Street Fighter. Weekends are never going to be the same again now for me and my xbox is going to hog my broadband connection thats for sure.
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Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
Bottom of the pad... surely everyone knows that 
