As if this weekend I'm now a proud co-owner of an Xbox 360 Premium. To make a long story short my bro-in-law and I found one at a Gamecrazy. Playing Fight Night Round 3 was in a way like playing Super Mario 64 all over again ("This is a game?!") and caused me (amongst other reasons) to pony up for the hardware.

Anyway, since the system comes with one month of free Gold access, I was wondering if any of the popular downloadable Live games, like Marble Blast Ultra or the new Geometry Wars, can be played offline? The 360 is living at my bro-in-law's (he's allergic to my cats) and he has just a DSL modem instead of a router. Plus neither of us play online so having the system hooked up constantly is meaningless.