This.

As others have recommended I highly suggest you check out Mass Effect and Fable 2.

@Seraphic -

The way the RRoD warranty is this: You get a 3 year, $0.00 cost-to-you warranty in case of an RRoD occuring.

If you get RRoD, you have 2 options:

1) Request a printable label from Microsoft.com. It's postage paid, but you'll need to use your own box & packing material. The advantage is that you can get your X360 back around ~1 week from it dying if you sent it same day.

2) Request a 'coffin' from MS. They will mail you a postage-paid box with packing materials, and the like. The advantage is you don't need to buy, or use a box of your own, at the cost of taking an extra 3-4 days to repair.

Now, the neat thing with the warranty is that it's based on when your system is registered, or fixed. The advantage with this is that if your system does RRoD, the warranty gets extended an extra 3 years. I bought my 360 at launch (November 22, 2005). My warranty is still good till 2011 for RRoD.

As for the argument(s) about Falcon reliability, it's hard to get a definitive answer, as we never got one from Microsoft, or anyone concerning the initial failure rate of the 1st-gen X360s.

However, NeoGAF has a comprehensive aggregate of RRoD and other issues with Xbox 360's. They currently have tracked over 1,300 unique Xbox 360 failures. As it stands, only 32 of the 1,349 consoles have been Falcons, and this is as of January 16th, 2009. That's very staggering given how long Falcons have been in the wild (about 15 months).

You can view the data here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=14393794&postcount=9605

Although it's by no means definitive, it's a pretty strong argument that Falcons have greatly reduced the occurrence of RRoD. 0 Jaspers have been failed, as of now on NeoGAF.

Your probably done with this thread by now but I'll tell you something most people I've realised don't know, you can play the Halo 3 social playlists with a silver account as well as any game that has a pc version of itself. That means that you can also play the original GoW online with only a silver account.

my brother got an xbox only for halo, and look how that turned out. he now has more than 20 360 games. so even though now you think you only have a 360 for SO4, just wait a couple of months and you'l want to buy more games.

Thanks for the info man, are any of the older games below $20 by now? like the original gears or perfect dark?

@Mrstickball- Thanks man, i know what ya mean lol, so basicly not even a quater of falcons have failed right? from that data anyways. truth be told that was the only reason i disliked the 360 for a long time, but since you put it that way i feel more safe when it comes to my 360 now, which im freaking loving atm, cant wait for SO4!!!

@SHMUP- i dont have a wireless router for the 360 yet, but when i do sure. :P

Well that explains why i couldn't find any at Toys R Us or Gamestop.

Except used.... for 55....

Which was a hard pill to swallow... with new last Remnant selling for 40...

Also.  Get the Hard Drive replacement deal.   30 bucks for a 20 gig HD and 3 months live.

Congratz. Get crackdown. And mass effect. DO IT.

Thanks! :D

How does Mass Effect play?

A blend of TPS, and kotor. (knights of the old republic)

EDIT: i'm making a list, any other genres you care about besides rpg?

Whether you like FPS or not; get Left 4 Dead, and JOIN US AS WE DESTROY ALL SURVIVORS and etc. etc. Its really fun on LIVE.