Plants vs Zombies (PC)

The internet has a way of making things so popular that you end up hating them. Zombies, for instance, are the sub-culture reference du jour. Things versus Other Things - no, I don't care whether a pirate could beat a ninja. And tower defence games, which are this season's match-three puzzler, ubiquitous and increasingly boring. So Popcap, in a typically contrary move, decide to make a tower defence game called Plants Vs Zombies. And it's brilliant. It even contains a bonus match-three puzzler. Curse them! So, the zombies are coming to your house with the sole intention of eating your brains, and all that stands between them and your tasty head-meat is a grass ...  Read the complete review

Plants vs Zombies is a cheerfully animated game by Popcap in which you attempt to protect your house from hordes of the restless dead. By gardening at them. At first glance the bulk of the game is Adventure Mode: 50 levels of increasing difficulty across three different environments, including natural conditions such as night-time and fog. When in this mode you use plants such as the sunflower to literally generate pieces of sun which you collect and use to buy other plants. You then deposit your new plants on the left of the screen; the zombies appear from the right and shamble toward your array of deadly greenery until ...  Read the complete review

Popcap are those remarkable folks who have brought us previous delights such as, Insaniquarium, Chuzzle, Dynomite and Bookworm Adventures. These budget price games usually sell for around £15, although you can play demos for free. These demos are usually the full version of the game, but are limited to 30 minutes play. Plants Vs Zombies is a tower defence game of ridiculously addictive proportions. Zombies are trying to attack your house and eat your brains. You have to do some gardening and cultivate plants to stop them! There are five lanes of lawn, each consisting of several squares in which you can place plants. You place these plants strategically to ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those tower defence style games except you must protect your house from the zombies that are coming to attack and eat you up. The game is ingenious as you get to play by earning Sun to buy plants, whichhave several different abilities and by doing so attack the onslaught of zombies coming at you. There are six rows of madness to play with and later on you can play on the rooftop, pool and another garden. The game gets incredibly hard at the end and has a lot of depth to it. This has to be one the most enjoyable and best tower defence styled games around. Also it is very amusing especially the zombies with their random shouts and the way people ...  Read the complete review