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I got Agents of Mayhem as a rental today but it took a while to install so I played a few hours of Zombi and then got wrapped up in Army of Two and didn't stop until I had beaten it. 

Zombi is a pretty good survival horror zombie game I got for free with Games with Gold. You have to play carefully though because if you get more than a couple zombies around you, you are done for. I was playing on the difficulty mode where you respawn as a different survivor after every time you get infected. I thought that was neat because when you went out again, you'd see your previous character roaming around as a zombie. It was wise to destroy it because all your gear is still in its backpack. After a while I found it a little annoying that I was so weak in melee attacks. Take a couple hits and your down and infected. You also have to repeatedly smash the zombies to kill them unless you have a pistol. So it was only useful to melee attack when you caught a lone zombie. Otherwise it would take too long and the second or third zombie would get you. I kind of wanted to wack away a little more like in Dead Rising, though it didn't have to be that zany to please me. 

So I switched to Army of Two, since Agents wasn't done yet, another Games with Gold freebie. I played solo with an AI partner because this is a two player game. You have to cooperate a lot to beat these levels. One gives covering fire while the other flanks the enemy. That's basically what I did and it worked well with the AI. I found myself injury prone though and had to be picked up and healed many times. I was playing on the middle of three difficulties but the real problem was being a bullet sponge. I was more effective staying behind cover and shooting blindly than trying to aim. Every time I peaked my head out, I got wasted pretty badly. I think the game really wants you to work these distraction techniques because a head on battle is not very easy. Mark watched me beat the game and seemed interested. We may try and play the game co-op next time and see how it goes. 

Finally, I set up my PS3 because I wanted to see what was still available on the PSN store for that system but I had the wrong power cable, so I set up what I had and will pick up a cable next week.