![]() Your plants bob to the music while they fight off attacks, and the zombies themselves look suitably grim. Their basic, colourful and cartoony nature fit the tongue-in-rotting-cheek atmosphere perfectly. You’ll have plenty of time to try out different strategies, without ever getting frustrated. The learning curve is pretty much perfect however, thanks to the gradual introduction of new plant and zombie types. As soon as you advance past the first few levels, things pick up in pace and you’ll be clicking manically to get everything set up in time. That’s pretty much it, and that’s definitely a good thing. Click on a sun orb or a coin to pick it up. Click on the shovel icon, then an unwanted plant to dig it up. Drag a plant to an empty spot, then release to place it there. Some of the zombies will drop coins when killed, which you can use in a store to buy further plant upgrades.Ĭontrols are as simple as you’d hope. Stick a pea-shooter before a flaming log, and the bullets will turn into flammable missiles. Some of the plants can even be combined to devastating effect. The bog-standard pea-shooters are quickly upgraded to rapid-fire sentries, while aquatic weeds can pull zombies to their watery graves in the pool level. Luckily, you have an impressive variety of plants - over 40 in all - to kick some decomposing arse with. Halfway through the game, you’ll have to fight back zombie bobsled teams and Thriller-style dancers that can raise their own zombies as backing dancers. At first you’ll only encounter the typical, slow, dumb-as-nails type. Then there’s the sheer variety of zombies to consider. Balance is the key, and it’s easy to get wrong. You’ll need to plant sunflowers to create more of the orbs, but the sunflowers also need sun themselves to be planted. ![]() You need glowing orbs of sun to plant flowers, but these only fall occasionally from the sky during the day - and not at all during levels set at night. Sounds simple, but it takes careful micro-management to build up a formidable defence. Zombies begin to shuffle in from the right of the screen and it’s your job to stop them reaching the left. ![]() Strategy here is vital - you have a limited number of slots, and a poor choice will see your brains in the colon of a corpse in no time.Īs soon as you’ve chosen your arsenal, the level begins. At the beginning of each level, you must choose what plants to take into battle. No shotguns or chainsaws here - your only weapon against the hordes of the damned are a bunch of flowers and mushrooms.Įach level of the single-player campaign features an army of zombies that advance on your position in waves. Zombies from PopCap Games is something different entirely. However, it’s obvious just from the title that Plants vs. I’ve lost count of how many rotten heads I’ve blasted apart with shotguns over the years. ![]() Along with Nazis and aliens, they have to be the most overused antagonists in videogames. ![]()
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