Plants Vs. Zombies

by PopCap Games

• Play five original game modes.
• Take on a friend in 2-player Versus mode.
• Zap even more zombies in new DS-exclusive mini-games.
• Make your own zombie with the Zombatar.
• Unlimited replayable action.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00407F2BQ
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches ; 3.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: January 18, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (178 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #2 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Games > Adventure

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo DS | Edition: Standard

Get ready to soil your plants! Now you can zap zombies on the go in PopCap's award-winning game! Enjoy thrilling new minigames, take on a friend in Versus mode, and make your own zombie with the Zombatar! Plus, you'll get all the fun of the original hit game: Fight the fun-dead with your arsenal of plants through day, night, fog, in the swimming pool and on the roof. It's a powerful, portable new way to play Plants vs. Zombies. The fun never dies!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

60 of 60 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars PvZ:DS - Addictive game made even more so. February 8, 2011

By J. Grill

Platform for Display:Nintendo DS|Edition:Standard

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Just the facts:
- 56 different plants, including 8 special/powerful plants you must buy from the shop using the money you collect throughout levels.
- 26 different zombies, including 1 special zombie that can only be found in during a second play-through.
- 22 mini games, including Wall-nut Bowling, Beghouled, and Portal Combat.
- 10 puzzles, all variations of a Vasebreaker game.
- Survival Mode: 11 levels of intense gameplay. Survive as long as you can!
- Your very own Zen Garden, where you take care of plants you find gift-wrapped during the campaign. Main garden holds up to 32 plants. Mushroom and Aquariam gardens can be bought from the in-game store.
- Vs Mode: Play with friends near or far.
- An Achievement feature and ability to create your own Zombie Avatar.
- Published by Popcap, who also made Peggle and Zuma.

First I'll just say that I am fairly obsessed with this game, whatever the platform. With it's originality, inventive game play, and the wide array of mini-games and puzzles makes this is one of the best games I've ever played, especially on the DS. With the stylus, control is even easier. And the fact I can play this on the go is a huge selling point.
Plants Vs. Zombies is basically a "tower defense" type game, in the sense that you must defend your house from approaching zombies using your large arsenal of funny little plants.
Thanks to it's simple game mechanics and easy learning curve, this a great game for all ages. The main game itself isn't very challenging (may prove a nice challenge for younger players). However, once you beat the game a first time, the difficulty is ramped up a bit with your second play-through....
There are 5 modes with 10 levels each:
- Day Time
- Night Time
- Pool
- Fog
- Roof
Yes, it's also a bit short, but the replay value is immense; you'll find yourself wanting to play through again and again. Like collecting things? Sometimes throughout the level a little present will appear on screen - if you click it, the plant inside will be sent to your own personal garden!
Story wise - it's almost non-existent, but it's there. It's nice of them to throw it in there though, as unnecessary as it is.
The game looks almost identical to the versions on both the Xbox 360 and PC, with the sprites remade for the DS and looking quite fantastic on such a small screen.
From day one people have said, "Hey, this game would be perfect on the DS. Too bad it will probably never happen."
Well, it's happened, and it's incredibly well done.
There's just so much to do in this game, and, selling for only $20, this is a must buy. It's a game people will be talking about for years to come, so don't miss out on the fun! Read more ›

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Love them zombies January 19, 2011

By Andrea

Platform for Display:Nintendo DS| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I LOVE Plants vs Zombies. I've played it through multiple times on the PC. The game is super fun and extremely easy to get into. My 7 year old daughter and husband play it as well.

With that said, I was curious to see how it plays on the DS. The answer is very well. You do a lot of dragging and dropping with the stylus but the game (music and sound effects as well) are essentially the same. As you complete different levels in the adventure mode, you will unlock all of the mini-games. I haven't gone through the entire thing yet but at level 3 you unlock the mini-games and they appear to be the same as the computer version.

The three main differences are

1. The Zombinator - a way cool avatar creator to make your own zombie!
2. After Level 2 is over, you can play head to head against a friend.
3. You can earn different awards like blowing up 10 zombies with 1 cherry bomb. (Easter Egg on this screen!!)

I've found 1 easter egg so far :) I'm hoping to find more!

Am I happy I purchased it? Yep. Now I can play Zombies at lunch :)

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYONE should OWN! February 4, 2011

By Summer

Platform for Display:Nintendo DS| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

This is a MUST OWN for everyone! I love this game & it is my favorite of all time!!! It has a story mode, mini games, & puzzles (: The graphics are pretty cool and the whole layout of the game is awesome.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic game, but not the best version of it. February 11, 2011

By Anja Rebekka Schultze

Platform for Display:Nintendo DS|Edition:Standard

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Plants vs Zombies is an amazing and very creative tower defense game. Zombies is trying to get across your lawn and your only hope lines in your garden, armed with units such as Pea Shoots, cabbage pults and exploding cherries you are valiantly defending your home and your brain from the hordes of undead. The game has cute graphics, addictive gameplay and which a main adventure having 50 levels in addition to a generous amount of mini games and other content this is a sizable game. This game is a great choice for the Nintendo DS, however if you have a Ipad, PC or one of the other consoles this game is published for then you are likely to enjoy that more.

The graphics of this game is scaled down and do not look nearly as even and vibrant as in the Ipad or PC version and allot of details are missing. Plants vs Zombies have a great soundtrack, but the DS version mangle several of the melodies. The game interface is also a bit clumsy, the game is played with the stylus and instead of just clicking to selecting like in other versions of this game, here you have to drag the stylus around. That being said, except for a few minor cosmetic problems with this port of the game this is an excellent title.

The packaging of this game is very nice, it has a slipcase over over the case itself so it looks more classy, the slipcase cover looks like a zombie have taken a bite out of it, perfectly fitting the game, fancy packaging makes for a great gift item and I think anyone would be happy to receive this game. On that note, this game would be perfect to give to a child who want to play a zombie game but who is not quite old enough for a horror shooter.... Plants vs Zombies is suitable for anyone, and it is just spooky enough for a kid to find it exiting and cool, not that an adult would not find it exiting and cool also.

The manual which comes with the game is very funny to read, it is styled as a homeowners manual, however they have tried to make it funny more than informative so it is better at making you laugh than at making you understand how to play. I wondered about a few aspects of the game and the manual really did not help me. Luckily Plants vs Zombies are very easy to get into and it really is not problem just picking up and playing this game.

Plants vs Zombies is not a very difficult game, some might find the game to easy, I find it just perfect. This would be a good game for a beginner to tower defense games, however if you are a expert player and find the game to easy then know that some of the mini games really packs on the challenge. The mini games are not your typical mini game, it is the same concept and game style as the rest of the game, but with the game play mixed up again to create a new challenge. I would more call them extra levels than mini games. In addition to story mode and mini games there are multilayer, a "zen garden" a survival mode and the zombatar where you can create your own zombie.

I have really nothing but good to say about this game, I do not think it is the best port of it, but hey Plants vs Zombies is fun no matter what you play it on. I recommend this game to anyone, it has charm, it has spooky zombies and it have allot of militaristic plants, pick this one up and you will not be able to put the game down until you have beat it. Read more ›

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the PC version, but worth owning January 29, 2011

By Amber

Platform for Display:Nintendo DS| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

I'm writing my review as a comparison between the DS version of the game and the PC Game of the Year Edition. I've finished Adventure Mode and have completed all of the mini games, puzzles, and survival modes, but have not been able to try multiplayer.

I love playing on a touch screen. It's very quick and easy to pick up sun and coins, and to place plants. However, the smaller screen makes the game more difficult- the plants are crowded closer together so that it's harder to see which plant is where, or to tell whether a given space even has a plant on it at all. It's very difficult in this version to judge how damaged a Pumpkin is. Even the original game has some issues with plants being obscured by other plants or by menus and buttons, as well as menus and buttons being obscured by plants, and in this version it's even worse. For example, you can't tell what the plants in the top row of the Zen Garden are "asking for" in their speech bubbles, because the top menu completely blocks them.

The sound and graphics have of course been scaled down for the DS. The sound effects can be a little harsh and annoying at times, but the music sounds pretty good. The plants and zombies are even cuter when simplified, so no complaints there, other than the plants being crowded together as I mentioned earlier. Oh, and the abnormally large Dancing Zombie- I guess the designers didn't want to lose all the detail in his 'fro.

A few minigames are missing, and a couple of new ones have been added. The new games are fun but nothing special.

The top screen of the DS is mainly just used for the level progress bar, but has some cute zombie and raven animations if you can spare enough attention to watch....

Some of the plants and zombies perform a little differently in this version. A missile from the Cob Cannon seems to take longer to hit. It could be my imagination, but it felt like some of the seeds had a longer delay between plantings. In the PC version, Catapult Zombies advance only after they destroy the plants in the back rows or run out of ammo, but in the DS game they constantly move forward.

The game performs fine on most of the Adventure levels and minigames, but slows down considerably once there are large numbers of zombies and plants onscreen. This makes Endless Survival nearly impossible to play on the DS. It also doesn't seem to save your progress on Endless Survival if you leave the game. Note: I have the DS Lite- I don't know whether the other versions of the DS have more computing power.

If you're new to Plants vs Zombies, I highly recommend picking up the PC version instead. If you're already a fan, the DS game may be a little disappointing, but it's still worth owning a portable version that you can play in waiting rooms or when traveling. Save Endless Survival for your PC, though. Read more ›