Are you kidding? I would LOVE running around as bad-ass Marcus Fenix and blasting the crap out of all the whimpy new avatar-people. I would laugh all the way to hell :)

I've only played with the dashboard for half an hour, but I like it overall. It's fast, responsive and looks so much better than bland, 2D cardboard slides being pushed around on my screen.
The first thing I did was use the new "install game to harddrive" feature. Since I only have the 20GB harddrive, installing Gears of War 2 pretty much took up half the disk. Even so, I appreciated not having to listen to the DVD drive whine while playing.

I'm looking forward to trying out the party system as well, as soon as my lazy friends get their update and come online.

Hey, yank, quit your damn whining! Paying taxes won't kill you, and seriously, who did you expect would pay that huge debt to China, pay for the war or help rebuild the economy? Money may just be ink printed on paper, but it still has to come from somewhere. That somewhere has been YOUR POCKETS for the last eight years.

It's just that no one told you until now.

So grow up, start living responsibly and quit whining