I’ve been clinging on to my precious 1600 MS Points like they’ll save me from some sort of gaming nuclear winter, but yesterday I finally broke and splashed out.

Let me start by saying I’ve played a good bulk of the trials (probably about 25% of them, which is quite a few) on XBLA, so have a fairly good idea of the quality that can be expected. It might also help you to know that, when shopping for the ‘perfect’ games for me, I was looking for certain aspects; I wanted the game to playable for five minutes or five hours and still be fun, I wanted a co-op mode, and I also wanted that co-op mode to be playable over Live (ever since I started playing online games, the thing that has interested me most is working together with a fellow human being to get the win. Co-op everything is the future - you heard it here first!).

With this in mind, you won’t be surprised to hear that new release Schizoid’s tagline, “The most co-op game ever.” grabbed my attention somewhat. After watching a couple of videos (after the post break), I was instantly sold.

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