Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year Edition

Plants Vs. Zombies is said to be the number one fastest selling video game by Popcap and now I see why...I really don't buy a lot of video/computer games but this game is addictive and when I played a bit of this I knew I had to have it. The game concept is simple. You use defensive plants that are all armed to prevent zombies from reaching your house and eating your brains- A kind of tower defense concept. All of the plants and zombies have different personalities and the plants are alive in a sense. Some move, blink and all do different things to prevent the zombies from reaching your house.The Plants-To name a few we have "Peashooters"- a pea plant that spits out peas at the zombies, a "Squash"- who squashes the zombie when it gets near it, a "Tall-Nut" which blocks the zombies path as he munches through it, Watermelon Catapults, Cactuses that spit spikes, bombs, mines, mushrooms which sleep during the day, sunflowers which produce sun for you to use the plants and many more. Probably around 49 different plants you can collect. You get a certain number of slots for different plants to use during each level, you can buy up to 10.The Zombies-The Zombies are all different. Some of them are normal zombies, which are easy to beat, some have road cones on their heads (even harder), metal buckets (very hard) and some are giants ( which carries a baby on his back), also football players, a zombie from the 70's who wears bell bottoms and has back up dancers and many more. There was another zombie dancer originally and I liked him better but they had to take him out of the game due to him resembling a certain celebrity who lets say you know as once performing as a zombie and dancing. So now that they took him out of the game they replaced him with a zombie who wears bell bottoms and basically is a 70's dancer, along with 4 backup dancers coming towards the house. We even have a dolphin zombie... Also, a secret zombie who you discover the 2nd time around in Adventure Mode. There's tons of them.The levels include Day/Night, Pool and Roof. In each of these levels you fight against the zombies in your yard during the day, the night-time, the pool, the pool at night, the roof during the day and finally fight the big Dr. Zomboss who rides a huge mechanical zombie and sits inside it while throwing out a bunch of zombies and squashing your plants.Not only do you get the levels, you also get 20 Mini-Games, Survival Mode, Puzzles, Almanacs and Awards. Plus a Zen Garden to grow plants and sell them to a guy named "Crazy Dave"- this guy sells you goods and plants, you can buy a bunch of stuff from him.You can also buy an Aquarium Garden, a snail to pick up silver and gold coins that the plants give, A Mushroom Garden and a Tree of Wisdom (which grows) that you feed with fertilizer and spouts out different "tips" for the game as well as doing special things when it reaches a certain height.- For instance you can grow it to 100 or 500 feet and at a certain height the zombies will do special things in the game. Plus you can make your own Zombie Avatar and he also appears in the game itself, so far i've made three and they all appear in the game spontaneously, as one of the zombies coming to the house.There's also a music video at the end, the credits which has the sunflower singing and the zombies all dancing/ If you listen to it a couple times it's very catchy and the songs sticks in your head.There are many Easter Eggs in this game, different things to discover, and tons of stuff. This is like a bunch of different video game concepts in one. Especially with the mini-games. There's such a variation and if you beat the Adventure Mode, The Survival Mode is even harder, so you have that to challenge you.This game is well worth the money considering the hours of fun you'll get out of it. I have been playing it on-n-off for a month and I'm still not finished with everything. I still have survival modes to complete, still haven't grown my Wisdom Tree enough to see them dance, and still haven't completed a mini-game.My only complaint is I wish there were more levels or different scenes. As in we get the Daytime Yard, The Roof, The Pool and Dark. I wish there were another background or more levels to play though there is a lot....They should release Plants Vs. Zombies 2- I would definitely buy it. It's a great game. Never would I dream up the thought of using plants as a defense against zombies but this actually works. It's absurd but it's brilliant. Highly Recommended.

Technically speaking, its only 5 levels and in each level it has 10 boards to complete. I thought it was much more to complete and I completed it in less than 5 hours, so I started looking for plants vs. zombies 2. I wish I knew this before I purchased it. Had I known I, I never would have purchased it.

Let me say this game is great. I have it on another device and wanted it for my PC. That's where it got interesting. AO Outlet is in England. The game they sent was PEGI-12. That's a European rating and as such the game is region locked to PAL. So, if your PC (like mine) only reads NTSC titles this game won't work. After chasing the company through repeated emails, I finally got a response. They were abrupt in their response. I tried to send it back, but AO Outlet refused to pay shipping and it was going to cost 4-times what the game cost to ship it back. I kept it as a $12 mistake and picked up the Pop Cap Collection that included this game and 9 others for $10 at Target.

I started playing Plants vs. Zombies because of Angry Birds. My sister kept trying to tell me how great Angry Birds is, so I found the free version online through Google Chrome and gave it a try. Even after giving that game a fair shake and some playtime, I still couldn't understand what the appeal is. I found it to be frustrating and violent! Just for giggles, I looked at some of the other most popular extensions for chrome that were alongside Angry Birds, and that is how I discovered my love for "Zombies."I thought, "this looks promising" and gave the app a try, finding myself perfectly addicted within a few levels. After going through the few levels available for free and playing the limited "survival endless" mode for some time, I decided to spring for the full version, and ended up selecting this one from Amazon. I have to say, it was a VERY worthwhile investment!The install was easy, and I was able to create an image of the disk so I don't have to insert the disk every time I play, and it has never so much as hiccupped. The memory usage while the game is running is so minimal that I can run Skype, flash apps, internet, whatever with this in another window, and have never had any trouble. (Anything else while a flash app is running CRASHES my computer!)The game is just good old fashioned fun. It's not really violent, because the zombies are already dead! Plus, they want to eat your brains, so all's fair, right? I love the variety of plants you can unlock, and the endless strategies you can use with different combinations of plants to thwart the advancing Zombie army. The replay-ability of this game is excellent, though after beating the game more than a dozen times, I was here on Amazon just now looking for a newer or different version. It's fun because when you start over, you get to keep all your money to invest purchasing new plant varieties, plus it gets harder because "Crazy Dave" selects three plants at random for you for each level once you've beaten the game, no matter how inappropriate they might be for the given level. So sometimes it's easy working with his choices, but other times it's REALLY hard. Speaking of Crazy Dave...I have grown to love Crazy Dave, with his pot on his head, conspiratorial tone of some of his gibberish, crazy googly eyes, and sage advice peppered here and there to help you survive the Zombie Apocalypse. He kind of shows up when you need him. I can't help but shed a little tear for Crazy Dave at the very last level, each time I'm about to face the Boss (Dr. Edgar Zomboss) and that terrible bungee zombie shows up... I HAVE to fight the boss to save Crazy Dave!!! Talk about motivation...There are also several things that are NOT included in the free version, such as the Zen Garden and the Tree of Wisdom. The Zen Garden is fun and sweet, and it's nice to just relax and watch Stinky the Snail (the one and only same guy from InsaneIquarium!) collect coins for you as your plants happily bob and sway to the gentle music. The adult plants emit these subtle sparkles when they are happy, and they give you coins in this state to help you purchase more types of plants and various props (like pool cleaners, roof cleaners, food for the tree of wisdom, etc.). As for the Tree of Wisdom, it was funny but by the time you can afford it, you already know all the tips it gives you. It's kind of a funny and sarcastic tree though, and I enjoyed growing it up just to see what it would say next, even if I had already figured out the advice it had to offer by then.I was not surprised to see just now in reading a bit more about this game that the soundtrack has received critical praise. It really is above and beyond what you might expect from such an inexpensive game. The music adds a huge component to the gameplay, and it's just fun. This particular edition has the Disco Zombie, and the music that starts when he steps onto the scene and his disco-dancing followers dig out from the ground on all 4 sides around him is AWESOME! You're torn between "Oh no, not this guy and his FOUR regenerating buddies!!!" because they are really hard to get rid of, and that excited little "Whoop" of glee that rises as they rise from their graves, time standing still for a moment as everything STOPS while Disco Zombie and his backups take a moment to pause and sync before beginning their little dance forward... It's so funny! So awesome!In case you cannot already tell.... Yes, I am over age 30, and I love this game. It's simple, clean, funny, fun, nonviolent, memorable, charming. If you need something predictable and fun to unwind at the end of the hard day, there's nothing better than "Zombies" (as my husband has fondly come to call this game). I highly recommend Plants vs. Zombies, ESPECIALLY any of the "Game of the Year" edition versions, as they have funny little secret things embedded in the game. Ok, I take it back about the tree of wisdom... He DID tell me about a few funny little secrets, like typing words during gameplay to unlock funny little things. But I'm not going to tell you what they are... It's MUCH more fun to discover them for yourself!I can not recommend this game more wholeheartedly. I recommend it for anyone, all ages and both genders. If you can read a little, or perhaps even if you can't, you'll be able to figure it out and enjoy this game. :)