Plants vs. Zombies – Indie Game Review
Anyone with even a minor interest with independent video games, or a lot of time to kill while sitting in their office cubicle has likely heard of PvZ by now – via Facebook, or Felicia Day (creator of popular Xbox 360 webisodic The Guild) twittering her obsession with it at regular ten-minute intervals.
Plants vs. Zombies is simply a Tower-Defense Game but just writing the game’s name makes me want to boot up the demo and play some more.
To play the game, you must grow different plants that shoot, eat, or blow up attacking zombies. This game gives plenty of feral zombies to kill with peashooters. Strategy changes depending on the type of zombie and the level exist. The game has five different levels. The complexity increases nicely, and even if you have never seen a Tower defense Game before, you will understand it very quickly.
It must feel easy for people who have played these sorts of games before, but there is still enough tension and diversity to keep it thrilling. You earn new plants after the achieving of levels. And you can also collect coins used to buy new plant cards.
There are special game modes also: in one of these modes you bowl down zombies with walnuts that were especially fun and a nice break from the typical. Like most PopCap games, this Plants vs. Zombies is highly addictive. My plan was to sit down just to play this game for only a few minutes before skipping off to something else. But an hour later I was still setting up potato bombs to keep the zombies at bay.
The songs are memorable, and the graphics not only look great but the designs are laugh-out-loud funny. It is taking a huge effort of will to keep my credit card locked away, otherwise I would not get any work done for a number of days. Plants vs. Zombies is amazing. I recommend everyone at least try it out once.
Plants vs. Zombies
Genre: Action – Tower Defense
Platforms: PC, Mac
Free Trial, Purchasable ($ 6.99)
