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- Price: Free to try $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 Intel/10.5 Intel
- Date added: May 06, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,405
- Downloads last week: 903
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jason Parker on May 20, 2009
Plants vs. Zombies is a fun, funny, and remarkably well-designed game that should prove addictive for newcomers to tower-defense games, as well as challenging and satisfying to serious fans of this real-time-strategy subgenre. The interface and gameplay start out simply: you must plant seeds, collect sunlight, and tend a gridded garden that is your only defense against ravenous waves of the cartoonish undead. Zombies advance right to left in rows, and you have to decide which kind of plants to use and where to put them, whether you choose sunflowers to accelerate sunlight production or a variety of other plants to shoot, chomp, freeze, block, or otherwise frustrate the zombies.
From here, the game gets crazy-good (not to mention addictively rewarding), by endlessly tweaking this basic recipe on almost every single level, over time adding 49 kinds of plants, 26 kinds of zombies (from basic brain-eaters on up to pole-vaulters and Michael Jackson lookalikes), different rules for day and night, and a play grid that eventually includes a swimming pool and then even moves to your home's slanted roof--and that's just the 50-level Adventure mode. Plants vs. Zombies also includes Survival and Puzzle modes, 20 surprisingly good minigames (which let you do everything from fight invisible zombies to switch places and take on the plants), and a relaxing (but still useful in game terms) "Zen Garden."
Overall, this is an excellent game at a good price, with many interesting qualities and few flaws. Plants vs. Zombies is a must-buy for fans of tower-defense games, and even casual Mac gamers should check out the 60-minute demo.
Publisher's description
From PopCap Games :Get ready to soil your plants in an all-new action-strategy game from PopCap! A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door.
Each zombie has its own special skills, so you'll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all. But be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds... as you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool add to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies!
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 3 votes
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Version: Plants vs Zombies 1.0
Pros: Keeps changing
Cons: None so far
Summary: Really fun
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Version: Plants vs Zombies 1.0
Pros: Takes just enough time to beat the game - you'll find yourself addicted quickly
Cons: once finished can get very repetitive.
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Version: Plants vs Zombies 1.0
Pros: Good fun, different strategies, different zombies adds a little bit of challenge
Cons: Too easy, demo doesn't give enough time to see if there's any depth in gameplay
Summary: An average, fun for a few hours game. From playing the demo its not worth 20!
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