Review: Plants Vs Zombies
Plants Vs Zombies is awesome, if that’s all you’re going to get out of reading this then those first five words are all you need. Plants Vs Zombies is the latest release by Pop Cap the wonderful creators of Peggle. In its simplest form this is a tower defence game, zombies come at you on a number of lanes and you build plants to kill said zombies before they get past your lovely green defenders and eat your brains.The currency is sunlight which during the day will fall from the sky and is also generated by sunflowers, but at night the only source of sunlight that you have are sun-shrooms and sunflowers the former of which is cheaper but also generates less sun. You have to click on the sun that falls in order to add it to your resource pool which turns it into a bit of a click fest when you get later into the game.
A Lawn Defence At Any Hour
There is also a back yard which has a pool in which gives you access to a couple of water plants and the roof of the house which requires you to plant watermelon and cabbage catapaults. Overall there is a pretty good range of plants and zombies to plant and kill, each of them has their own particular flavour to them and for the most part there isn’t a single plant in your arsenal which is completely useless. Which is annoying because you can only carry a limited number of seeds into a given level, but it means you have to be somewhat strategic about what you bring and to help you choose you do get to see what types of zombies that you will face in a level.
The adventure mode gives you a series of single lawn battles after each other, so you start off planting a new defence every level. In addition to the adventure mode there are a bunch of mini game types which each has thier own twist on the main gameplay as well as a pair of puzzle modes which change things up quite a lot. The survial mode is the one that is most like the classic tower defence of plant a defence while wave after wave of zombies come at your line, and eventually you will be overwhelmed. My record is at 21 flags so it should be easy enough for you to beat.
The game looks and sounds beautiful, and really the only complaint I really have is that there isn’t quite enough variety in the music but it doesn’t matter too much because the music is pretty good throughout. One thing to note is that you can buy Plants Vs Zombies from Popcap directly for $20 on PC or Mac or you can buy on Steam for £6.99 so take a guess at what my recommendation is. And to close this review I leave you with this: