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Ok, the verdict is in and *drum roll* XBox Live is freaking awesome! Everything I ever imagined it could be, it lived up to. Lag free games, real-time voice... All played out wonderfully.
So far I have played Whacked!, MotoGP, NFL Fever 2003 and Sega NFL 2K3 online. I can imagine that MotoGP is probably the most bandwidth taxing of them all, most games I played had 16 racers in them. And lord help me, no lag and I got to trash talk and meet people from all over the world. It is especially cool to actually get to talk to and game against my fellow xbox gamers that I know online from different places.
The only downfall right now is there aren't enough games out for Live. If you are a sports fan you are doing fine, as 4 of the 5 live enabled games at the moment are sports. But soon there will be Unreal Champ, Clancy's Ghost Recon, Mech Assault and many more, so this is only a temporary problem. Besides, the voice option in the game automatically increases the fun factor of a game. I really don't care much for motorcycle racing, but chatting with 10 different people from across the country/globe while we race makes a huge difference.
By the way, one feature that I thought was going to be dumb and crappy, voice masking, turns out to actually work very well. There is no voice distorition and you can totally understand what peoplw with voicemask are saying! Anyways, enough rambling for me. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer them.
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