Gears Of War Made Us "XBox Live Sociable" Again

It felt like starting a new school over again, a fresh chance with people who will think our offbeat accent and huggable figures are adorable and not to be punched!

We gave it a go this weekend gone, we actually put on our headset (which was a wee bit out of shape) and talked to real people. Well a couple of real people. Well... one, and we have actually met him in person.

But the moral of the story is that we intend to do it again, and this will be the first game since Burnout Revenge that will make us compete against real people.

Yes we were previously put off with playing against the tosspots that dominate XBox Live at the hours we chose to go on, it wasn't like when we first played Halo 2, or even the first Ghost Recon. It lost it's appeal, it was frustrating. Dare we say it?

There were people on there that were actually better than us at gaming...

But now, look out world - with the promise of head stomps and pretend violence we're back and we're going to attempt some bottom kicking until we decide where to get our Wii from.