Regular readers of 360 GAMER will know that we only review the Xbox Live side of a game when it is officially released - isolated tests on servers with only a handful of players do not give an accurate indication of how well a game will perform on the public servers with thousands of gamers looking for some action.
Xbox Live veterans know that even the greatest of games can be an online failure if the servers are inadequate - the original Live iteration of Call of Duty 2 on Xbox Live was a nightmare until a patch was released that made it one of the 'must play' games on the service.
Gears of War is already one of the biggest and most successful games of the year, but how does it fare on Xbox Live? What about Call of Duty 3 too? - we didn't much rate the single-player but is the Live multiplayer its saving grace?
You can find out by reading our Gears of War Xbox Live review here and our Call of Duty 3 Live review here.
