You’re Bruce, the game’s lone living dead eradicator. Again, just like real life, a level head must be kept, and there must be a deliberate order to the actions that determine your survival. Twenty minutes and all eight parts of the tutorial later, I began to uncover the reasons for my obvious failure zombies have to be obliterated, of course, but they must be taken down with an attention to detail. I was dead in less than a minute, I had accumulated maybe 5% of the necessary score, and I was left with a “well what the hell was that?” bafflement that suggested I better consult the previously skipped in-game tutorial. Despite the implied simplicity of an arena shooter, I was utterly bewildered after my first game.

Though it shares the zombie namesake of its peers, the gameplay behind Burn Zombie Burn! has more in common with top-down, kill-everything-on-the-screen games like Geometry Wars or Smash TV. Yet, having spent a considerable portion of my life planning my actions in the event of a zombie apocalypse (as any remotely responsible person should), I welcome another game that will, in some way, allow humanity to virtually prepare for the inevitable takeover by the living dead. I wouldn’t say their oversaturation is fatiguing gamers on a World War II-FPS level, but, to the untrained eye, it’s getting hard to tell them all apart. Zombies have been around gaming since they allegedly Ate My Neighbors in 1993, but their recent prevalence seems like, well, an outbreak. Zombie games seem to be popping up at an alarming rate Dead Space, The Last Guy, Dead Rising (Wii), Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead, and the Nazi zombie minigame in the most recent Call of Duty have all been released in the last nine months.

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