I played a couch game (2 people) on 360 for a couple of hours and saved it. The autosave also saved, a few seconds before.
When I came to reloading the game (which only appears to be possible by creating a NEW couch game and then going to Save/Load once in there...seems a bit odd?), the game loaded...and then flashed up the main menu. Neither player was able to clear this menu screen. We had to go back to the dashboard.
Tried again, this time trying to load the autosave. Same problem. Menu came up (the one with Resume Game, etc on) and we couldn't dismiss it.
Tried creating a BRAND NEW couch game. Saved the game shortly after creating it, then tried loading it. Same thing happened.
It seems like it's not possible to save and reload a couch game which is very frustrating - is this a known issue? I'm not getting any error messages, just the main menu appearing which can't be dismissed and which forces you to quit to the 360 dashboard.