Dainty Flowers vs Fun Little Zombies

(The following review is based on the Mac version.)

Not the usual game I would review but I was obsessed over it all weekend.  Plants vs Zombies is a tower defense game from PopCap Games and is also available on Steam.  The story is that you are trying to protect your home from the neighborhood Zombies.  I personally would think that your Realtor should mention zombie infestations but maybe that isn’t common enough.

Every level gives you either new zombies to battle, new plants to work with, a mini-game type level, or a combination of these.  The plants are not as diverse as they might seem.  This is mainly because you are going to find ones that work and just stick with them.  You might upgrade to other plants that do the same thing but that’s about it for change.

Zombies on the other hand are diverse an quickly become dangerous.  You start out battling the easy standard ones and quickly move up to American football player zombies and ones on Zamboni.  Throughout every levels there are slow times where yes a few zombies come out, such as early in the level as you build your defense, and then escalates to denser waves.

The level design while simplistic is very detailed in recreating a font yard, backyard with pool, and a terracotta rooftop.  All the levels are made up of five rows that zombies move along.  The good news is that at the end of each row is something to mow down the zombies if they manage to reach the edge.  The flip side to this is that the device to mow them down does not regenerate during a level.

Now in the past with the Final Fantasy Crystal Defenders games I have played a lot of tower defender style games, however this one is hands down the cutest and most addicting.  The only point of improvement might be in the exponential difficulty, especially with the mini-games.