Here are my stats from www.gearsofwar.com.  They are giving me losses for Horde mode.  That is the only game type I have played so far.  I guess you do not get on the leaderboards or get a win unless you get past all 50 levels.

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I tried to get into the horde game but I got fed up waiting for other players to join.

The annoying thing was I wanted to try this so bad as disolitude had done a thread on it saying it was brilliant.

Jesus Christ! 1/3 of all my deaths are due do gay assed chainsaw kills. I was never one to bitch about them in Gears 1 but when you are running around with a revved chainsaw you are near unstoppable now.

Just an FYI:

Gears of War 2's leaderboard system has over 470,000 total players for 1 mere game mode (Execution). Not too bad.

Gears of War 1 is at 2.6 million at the moment.

I think Jagged Sac is showing off his prowess.

That is not prowess. It just seems like it because I only played Horde.

I would show off my own prowess, but im the kind of guy that feeds the Kill/Death ratio of guys like you.

I hate how the 360 always tempts me to take it online, inspite of using PSN/Steam all the time. I keep telling myself that I shouldn't, but every time another awesome multiplayer game comes out I just feel my resistance slipping.

There are free options for playing 360 games online if it is the money that keeps you?

Thats pretty much it. I can't justfy paying more than the cost of a game for an online service that I hardly use. If it was half the price I would definately be online.

There are some free services on the pc that will allow you to play the games online.