Parent's Guide: The Curse of The Zombiesaurus - Age rating, mature content and difficulty

The Curse of the Zombiesaurus is the latest expansion pack for A World of Keflings, which adds a brand new, spookily themed land to play around in. Following a similar format to the main game, it's up to you, playing as a giant, to help out poor old Count Kefula, whose latest experiment, a giant dinosaur/zombie hybrid known as the zombiesaurus has run amok, levelling his village to the ground.

With a funny storyline tying everything together, the name of the game here is resource management, as you set the little people, known as keflings to work for you. Pick them up, and plonk them on a nearby grave or tree, and they'll start chipping away at it, harvesting raw materials. The idea then is to funnel these materials into the various buildings, where you'll use them to create components, which you can put together to build yet more buildings. Luckily, it's nowhere near as complex as it sounds. The components you'll build are all basically tiles, and all you have to do is plonk them down in the correct arrangement, as shown by the blueprint, to construct the building. Luckily, there's plenty of assistance here, as the story tells you what you should be looking to build next, and you can press the left trigger at any time should you need a quick reminder.

Better still, the whole thing's playable in two player co-op on the same console, so one player can manage resources, and move things from building to building, while the other boots Keflings around if they look like they're slacking.

There is, however, a lot of reading here, and no voiceovers at all, meaning a solid grasp of the English language is required - especially if you're to understand the many jokes. It's also fairly complex to get your head around to begin with, and may be a little bit too tricky for younger kids to handle. For older children, though, the game holds a lot more appeal than you may imagine, with funny characters, tongue in cheek gameplay, and the act of moving resources from one place to another proving a lot more enthralling than you'd imagine.

Although it may have a slightly spookier theme, there's little for parents to be too concerned about here. The zombies featured in game aren't the skin-falling-off type as you may expect, but rather simply have discoloured green/blue skin. There's nothing too scary about the game either - while it may be Halloween themed, it's all handled with its tongue very much in its cheek, with cheesy characters, and nothing that would be scary, even to younger children. The only other thing it's worth mentioning is that, much like in the full game, you can give a Kefling a boot up the backside if they're not pulling their weight, or just look at you funny, which will send them flying across the level in a cartoony way.

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Format Reviewed: Xbox 360