Well, it's a really bad game that is ripping off Mass Effect (I had to sit through every single minute of The Bureau for a walkthrough I wrote, and while it does have interesting ideas it's just so poorly done and the ending is mindbogglingly horrible).
The thing is, Mass effect is more of an homage to 70s (maybe late 60s in some respects) sci fi- so it's tonally different (all be it a better game in all respects).
Someone else said Bioshock which is similar mainly due to era more than anything. 60s suburban aesthetic is not common in games, but the original XCom was fashioned for that era and the concepts of "the red scare" that were prevalent (and thus the reason for sci fi films that tackled it from the early 1900s all the way through the mid 1960s). I doubt you'll find that on PS3, though. It's an older PC game.
You might like Bioshock, though. Bioshock, while similar in aesthetic, is a tonally different game (tackling more modern politics like vanity, over indulgence, racism [which is a timeless issue unfortunately], among many other things), but it's worth checking out on it's own merits.
There aren't many games like The Bureau (as again The Bureau is full board ripping off Mass Effect for game play) even through out all of games [in general]. The closest I can think of not related to Mass Effect or the Bureau is Freedom Fighters on PS2 as you do lead a squad there, but even that is not really like The Bureau and is tonally completely different (Freedom Fighters is more of a take on Red Dawn done in a more modern at the time [early 2000s] setting).
The closest you'll come game play wise is Mass Effect as the game play is entirely stolen from that, but you won't get the 50s-60s red scare era suburban setting.
I would recommend Fallout 3 or New Vegas, but those are only mildly similar aesthetically and not at all the same game play. It's still worth mentioning if you want to look into it. You'll probably enjoy it more in any case.
As for zombies, throw a quarter and you'll land on one. You really don't need recommendations- they aren't hard to find if you actually look at a game stores stock (digital or otherwise).
A really bad game that I enjoyed was Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel without a pulse. It has that pulpy, 60s suburban thing going on and is fashioned after that concept aesthetically. It's kind of a bad game, but I like a lot of little things about it. I don't want to give bad recommendations, but if you liked The Bureau and like "zombies" maybe you'll get a kick out of it. I don't know if it's on PS3, though. I have it on PC (steam).
I thought about this entirely to much.
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