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Plants vs Zombies is not only a game filled with brain munching creatures, it’s also one of the best games on the iPhone. Ever.
The simple concept involves a garden (back or front), a bunch of zombies, each with different skills, and a bunch of plants at your disposal to defeat them. The garden allows you to plant a certain amount of plants from left to right to cope with the waves of zombies that slowly make their way towards your house. You’ll need to stop them before they get in and munch on your brains.
As you would expect, different plants do different things. Sunflowers are the most important as they will give you more sun to grow other plants (basically the same as earning points for new weapons in any TD game), other plants do things like shooting zombies, stopping them in their path, freezing them or blowing them (and the surrounding ground) up.
The element of strategy comes in the form of stopping different zombie types. There are basic zombies, ones with cones on their heads, swimming zombies, pole volting zombies that can jump over your first plant and even some driving powered lawnmowers that can plough straight through most of your defences.
Graphically PvZ is great, the detail in the different zombie designs really make it stand out and the fact that it has a Michael Jackson zombie is a winner in itself. It’ll have you in stitches as the surrounding zombies dance to Thriller!
With a whole bunch of levels, a neighbour who pops up to offer new plants and plots of land and an ever increasing difficulty level, Plants vs Zombies is a perfect iPhone game and highly recommended.
10/10
The simple concept involves a garden (back or front), a bunch of zombies, each with different skills, and a bunch of plants at your disposal to defeat them. The garden allows you to plant a certain amount of plants from left to right to cope with the waves of zombies that slowly make their way towards your house. You’ll need to stop them before they get in and munch on your brains.
As you would expect, different plants do different things. Sunflowers are the most important as they will give you more sun to grow other plants (basically the same as earning points for new weapons in any TD game), other plants do things like shooting zombies, stopping them in their path, freezing them or blowing them (and the surrounding ground) up.
The element of strategy comes in the form of stopping different zombie types. There are basic zombies, ones with cones on their heads, swimming zombies, pole volting zombies that can jump over your first plant and even some driving powered lawnmowers that can plough straight through most of your defences.
Graphically PvZ is great, the detail in the different zombie designs really make it stand out and the fact that it has a Michael Jackson zombie is a winner in itself. It’ll have you in stitches as the surrounding zombies dance to Thriller!
With a whole bunch of levels, a neighbour who pops up to offer new plants and plots of land and an ever increasing difficulty level, Plants vs Zombies is a perfect iPhone game and highly recommended.
10/10
Thanks.
It's not free, currently £1.79, but worth every single penny of that.
It's not free, currently £1.79, but worth every single penny of that.
Main point for me. Is it free? :P
Nice review pb
Nice review pb
Plants vs Zombies is not only a game filled with brain munching creatures, it’s also one of the best games on the iPhone. Ever.
The simple concept involves a garden (back or front), a bunch of zombies, each with different skills, and a bunch of plants at your disposal to defeat them. The garden allows you to plant a certain amount of plants from left to right to cope with the waves of zombies that slowly make their way towards your house. You’ll need to stop them before they get in and munch on your brains.
As you would expect, different plants do different things. Sunflowers are the most important as they will give you more sun to grow other plants (basically the same as earning points for new weapons in any TD game), other plants do things like shooting zombies, stopping them in their path, freezing them or blowing them (and the surrounding ground) up.
The element of strategy comes in the form of stopping different zombie types. There are basic zombies, ones with cones on their heads, swimming zombies, pole volting zombies that can jump over your first plant and even some driving powered lawnmowers that can plough straight through most of your defences.
Graphically PvZ is great, the detail in the different zombie designs really make it stand out and the fact that it has a Michael Jackson zombie is a winner in itself. It’ll have you in stitches as the surrounding zombies dance to Thriller!
With a whole bunch of levels, a neighbour who pops up to offer new plants and plots of land and an ever increasing difficulty level, Plants vs Zombies is a perfect iPhone game and highly recommended.
10/10
The simple concept involves a garden (back or front), a bunch of zombies, each with different skills, and a bunch of plants at your disposal to defeat them. The garden allows you to plant a certain amount of plants from left to right to cope with the waves of zombies that slowly make their way towards your house. You’ll need to stop them before they get in and munch on your brains.
As you would expect, different plants do different things. Sunflowers are the most important as they will give you more sun to grow other plants (basically the same as earning points for new weapons in any TD game), other plants do things like shooting zombies, stopping them in their path, freezing them or blowing them (and the surrounding ground) up.
The element of strategy comes in the form of stopping different zombie types. There are basic zombies, ones with cones on their heads, swimming zombies, pole volting zombies that can jump over your first plant and even some driving powered lawnmowers that can plough straight through most of your defences.
Graphically PvZ is great, the detail in the different zombie designs really make it stand out and the fact that it has a Michael Jackson zombie is a winner in itself. It’ll have you in stitches as the surrounding zombies dance to Thriller!
With a whole bunch of levels, a neighbour who pops up to offer new plants and plots of land and an ever increasing difficulty level, Plants vs Zombies is a perfect iPhone game and highly recommended.
10/10