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Posted by Seabeast on August 23, 2010 16:12

Plants vs Zombies: Review and Videos

What is it?

Basically it’s a nice refreshing take on a Tower Defense game. You have to defend you home versus a horde of zombies by planting plants in your yard which will fight them. To keep it interesting you don’t only plant in your front yard but also in your backyard, which has a pool by the way.

There is also a big difference in night and day battles, with some plants that only grow at night and not during the day and vice versa. At night it feels like you have stronger plants but less sunlight to buy new plants so the whole gameplay shifts a bit. Because you need sunlight! It falls from the sky during day time and you also get it from sunflowers (in day) and sun mushrooms (at night). You need it to put new plants in your yard to defend yourself against the enemy. The zombies. Oh yeah, at night there are also tombstones and fog in your yard which will make it harder for you and more fun.
Now check out our gameplay video in 1080 HD to see for yourself:

Originality:

There are some very fun gameplay elements in this game which will keep you thinking and add some strategy as well. Some zombies can only be killed or countered with certain plants. For example: there is a zombie which hangs on a balloon (you can see it in our gameplay video) and the only way to get it to the ground and kill it is with a cactus plant which will pop the balloon, forcing the zombie to land and get killed by the ground plants!

Another one is that only waterplants can be planted in the pool (duh) but you can plant waterlily’s on the pool which enables you to plant normal plants on top of them. Its pretty fun! There is also a weird guy called “Crazy Dave”, I won’t go in detail on this you’ll have to check it out for yourself! No spoilers here!

Mini-games:

A cool feature is the mini-games, there are 20 original and unique mini-games!

Check out our “bowling” and “slots” minigame videos in 1080 HD to have a look:

Controls:

The controls are as simple as can be. You only need to use your mouse to click on seeds and plant them. Along with various other things like picking up sunlight and coins. I think the game could have been better if they had included a hotkey function thus allowing you to plant faster and allowing the game to spawn zombies faster. Getting a bit more action in there.

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Graphics:

Not much to say here, it looks good and polished. The zombies are sometimes hilarious and the plants look like they have real personality. Interesting concept really. Plants are cool and have character and personality (a red pepper looks real angry for example) and zombies are dumb and all look pretty much the same, they only become cool if they wear weird outfits or something. But back to the point! Its 2D, not that hard to get it too look good.

Sound:

Nothing really too special here. Although the background music has been stuck in my head for 3 days now. I can’t stop whistling it, its so jolly. The zombies say “brains” a lot in a few different funny squeaky voices. There is a correct sound for everything that happens in the game, its just all there. Some zombies make a distinct sound before they even enter your vision of your yard so you can react to that with a counter plant. A “jack-in-the-box” zombie makes a tingling sound with his box before you even see him, but you know he is coming so you can pop a squash in his way or something.

Well? What are you going to do?

Buy it?
To be honest despite all the different plants and zombies its still a bit repetitive, especially when you start a new level. It takes some time to build up speed each level. Because you need to plant sun giving plants in order to grow offensive plants. And seeing you start with only 50 sunlight (which is enough for only 1 sunflower) it takes some time to build a nice plant-base every level.

But overall I would say… yes definitely get it! It costs like 10 euro’s, and this is a very good game for that price. You get a long and intense “story” mode and when you are finished with that you can dive into the mini-games section. Combined with the humour this game offers (Micheal Jackson zombies ftw) its very reasonable priced and not a waste of your time! Buy it!

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4 Comments

Seabeast says:

October 20, 2010 at 22:20

Yeah, it’s very simple yet so addictive and fun.
Triple G says:

October 20, 2010 at 18:55

I played it on the Ipad, not a bad game at all
Seabeast says:

August 24, 2010 at 23:28

Haha yeah I read that too. He won’t be there in the Xbox 360 version anymore!
Iamdude says:

August 24, 2010 at 19:57

They’re actually removing the Michael Jackson zombie, his estate sued.