From the workshop of PopCap, the casual games publisher which gave us Zuma, Bejeweled, Peggle and a few others, comes Plants vs. Zombies. At the core of it, PvZ is a variety of a defense game: There are Zombies on the lawn, and they are hungry for some brains! It's up to you to plant your defenses and show them that we don't want Zombies on the lawn.
The gameplay is divided to levels, featuring increasingly challenging waves of Zombies. After each new level of the main adventure mode, you discover a new plant, increasing your choices. Of course, new enemies are introduced frequently as well. The game spans several environments which vary the gameplay a bit - normal, at night, with a pool, on the roof and so on.
Now, the game is not very hard. I wasn't kidding, your mom can play it. Successfully. For quite a while. The game is easy, addictive and a lot of fun (hey, remember when games used to be fun). It's also packed full of extra content: there are quite a lot of minigames, many with nods to other PopCap games, and after you go through all the other content, there are three, count them three, completely different infinite play challenges where the goal is to survive as many waves as possible.
All in all, the game
is pure PopCap. From the catchy music, perfectly fit sounds and tongue-in-cheeck attitude, it's a polished casual masterpiece. I recommend it to everyone and their dog. It's like 20 bucks on the
official site and 10 bucks on
Steam. Go buy it, seriously, you won't regret it.
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Slay the living! Raise the dead!
Paint the sky in crimson red!
[Last edited by Maurog at 06-18-2009 06:09 PM]
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