I was wondering if there's a way in checking
game status for XBL, like...

1) How may players are actively playing a particular game?
2) Percentage breakdown (by country) of players playing a game

Perhaps there's an online website somewhere that have such statistic?

This question came up because won't it be
great if i knew how many asians/ppl are playing
a game on XBL before spending money buying it.

hmm i really dont know if there's such features currently from any website out there. But i always wanted while playing online game to choose which server you want, so that you can choose those near to you. Well, it is a good idea to have such options like this on LIVE, i guess someone should suggest this to Microsoft.

p.s: for all you know... M$ is working on it. Hopefully they don't overlooked on this.