Parents' Guide to #KILLALLZOMBIES

While this top-down, arcade-style shooter sometimes gets inventive and challenging, it's unfortunately as cheesy as its name suggests, not the least bit scary, and ultimately rather redundant. Initially armed with a pistol, #KILLALLZOMBIES has you trying to survive in bland-looking arenas swarming with the undead. And the game is basically the same whether you're playing solo, with a friend co-op, or in the "Vault Defense" mode where the zombies are more interested in destroying your bunker than they are in eating you. But things change as you progress, as the game not only drops in such hazards and obstacles such as a spinning pole with spikes on it and large anvils. The longer you survive, the more often you get helpful power-ups that can make you invincible, give you better weapons, or even turn you into a big spinning ballerina of death. You can even stream your game online, and viewers not only can watch you try to survive, they also can vote to make it harder or easier on you. They can increase or decrease the amount of zombies attacking, adding more or fewer obstacles, or even messing with the controls. This, for serious players, is welcome, because it adds some much-needed unpredictability. But while rounds of #KILLALLZOMBIES do get better the longer you survive, the lack of variety in your enemies, your guns, and the gameplay ultimately render it redundant, killing any interest you might have in playing it more.