I wouldn't say it's special as such but what makes it good is the tight level of integration between community/games/content it offers. In truth cross game chat is the only real USP it has functionally vs PSN so far as I can tell - but the OS for the console and how it integrates is a bit better and slicker. Online play itself is identical. Downloads and patching is neater with Live though.
It's also not really that expensive - although I think Silver should get access to more than they do in terms of non-gaming non MS centric stuff.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...







