I have two enemies in this world. Gnomes, and zombies. But mostly zombies. The gnomes are more of an annoyance, like evil-closet-monkeys. Sorry, bad reference to a dumb show. Won’t happen again. Anyways. Zombies. One of my biggest problems with them is that they always manage to find a way to infest my lawn. Hell, right now I have zombies on my lawn. They’re getting dangerously close to the garden gnomes, and I’m afraid they’ll start…conspiring.
Oh wait, I’m supposed to be reviewing, aren’t I? So yeah, there’s a little game called Plants vs Zombies. Ever hear of it? NO??? WELL! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ THIS REVIEW, AND PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO BUYING IT GOOD SIR OR MADAM. Ahem, sorry. This is what happens when I spend the day sleeping and the past few hours drinking energy drinks.
Plants vs Zombies is a PopCap game – Don’t go! It’s not like those *other* games by them. The player must defend their house from waves of zombies. Now, these aren’t Danny Boyle or George Romero zombies. PopCap managed to make the zombies look funny in a morbid and childish way. As the player progresses through the game, he encounters different zombies, and unlocks different plants. Each different zombie uses a different tool to make life, soon to be unlife, that much harder for the player.
The plants are also very fun to experiment with…In the game, of course. There is a wide variety, from basic pea shooters that, well, shoot peas at the incoming horde, all the way to man (or zombie) eating plants. The addicting gameplay is part of what makes PvZ so frigging awesome. Each wave lasts about thirty seconds to a maximum of two minutes, and there are several waves per level.
There is a sad fact about the game, however. The original game had a Michael Jackson’s Thriller tribute zombie, and now it is gone. But it is still a frigging awesome game. Go buy it, it’s cheap. It’s on iPod, Steam, and now Xbox 360. Oh, and watch the Zombies on Your Lawn machinima music video, both before and after your first playthrough.
