Plants vs. Zombies (WiFi Download Only)

by PopCap Games, Inc.

Product Details

• ASIN: B0052UZIFA
• Original Release Date: May 31, 2011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 26, 2011
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3,989 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)

Product Features

• Please note: this app is incompatible with the Motorola DROID (works on Motorola DROID 2 and some DROID X's). See 'Latest Updates' section above for other incompatible devices.
• Use an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants to stop a mob of hungry undead from invading your home
• Think fast and plant faster--peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs, and other fearsome flora await
• Play through 50 exciting levels in Adventure mode
• Battle 26 types of zombies including pole-vaulters, snorkelers, and bucket-heads

Technical Details

• Size: 73.5MB
• Version: 1.2
• Developed By: PopCap Games, Inc.
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Read only access to phone state
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Achieve low-level access to setting the orientation (actually rotation) of the screen
  • Access the vibration feature
  • Collect battery statistics
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • Modify global audio settings
• Minimum Operating System: Android 1.5
• Approximate Download Time: More than 5 minutes

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

139 of 165 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Old version. September 17, 2012

By Greven

Amazon Verified Purchase

This version does not work on Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon), stock, ICS 4.04. This is still version 1.2. The Google Play Store edition has been updated multiple times and is now on version 1.35. There is a disturbing trend on the Amazon Appstore of selling old and outdated versions of apps, which discourages me from purchasing through them. I'd rather buy from Google and get timely updates that actually fix newer problems.

65 of 76 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Android version lacks all game features. November 12, 2012

By xyz

Amazon Verified Purchase

I have this game on many platforms and the Android version is very disappointing. Although the basic game play is pretty much the same, you don't get the Zen Garden and other free-play features that gives the game replay value on other platforms (on which I would give it 5 stars). This version has been out for some time now, I would have thought the authors would have added those features by now.

97 of 118 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Still no update November 25, 2012

By Anthony D. Cirillo

Amazon Verified Purchase

Still lagging behind other platforms
No zen garden, no survival mode. Dissapointed that the android version was just abandoned.

How hard could an update be?

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs to update to support ICS December 18, 2011

By Dave

Amazon Verified Purchase

I enjoyed this game on my old phone, but it constantly freezes on the galaxy nexus and loses game state. Please update for ICS!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Too incompatible -- not really ready IMO July 8, 2011

By Nazosan

Amazon Verified Purchase

I feel like they must have rushed it out too quickly or something. My Archos 43 is listed as supposedly being compatible and I've found a few people who were able to managed to get the game to run if they ran the VTL loader (which runs horribly on the Archos 43, but it's meant for tablets, not PDAs like this or smartphones) and killed every single background application first (even things like the device settings should be closed.) It seems it requires that you free up a lot of memory on devices like these that have less than 512MB of memory (eg almost everyone but tablet users.) I've tried absolutely everything though and just can't get the thing to work at all with the VTL or Zeam launchers and > 120MB memory free (and no game should actually require that anyone do all of this just to get it running.) What's more, the game just simply crashes during the loading screen. Obviously a completely unhandled exception or something. It doesn't "force close" or produce any error message whatsoever, just suddenly I'm staring at the loader again after waiting some 2+ minutes to try to start it. That's bad design in my book as this means it doesn't even catch that there is an error at all, but just does something it shouldn't be doing probably. I even tried using the Logcat program to see if at least something showed up in the system log to reflect such an absolute crash, but just couldn't find anything. Whatever it's doing to cause a crash like this just seems very bad to me. I tried twice to report the issue and never even received so much as acknowledgement that it might not work despite being listed as being compatible. I also see a lot of other people having problems with devices that should be able to manage it (some of which are more powerful than mine....)

Frankly, I just feel that it simply wasn't developed enough. It needs more optimizing (especially the load times -- that's just ridiculous) and cleaning up as well as a lot more compatibility fixing to work on more devices (and of course it should be able to report basic errors, but everything should be able to do that. How can a user diagnose or repair issues when they are given absolutely nothing to work with?) Given that I basically can't run the game, I can't say if it's just a quick and dirty port (perhaps from an iPhone version?) or what, but whatever it is, I think it just seems to not really be ready for the market yet IMO. I regret that I made the mistake of actually buying it since I missed the opportunity to get it for free. Now it's just taking up space uselessly for me since I can't even get past the loading screen no matter what I do. I keep updating in the hopes the problem will be fixed, but still nothing. At this point it seems kind of hopeless that I'll ever play this game on my PDA.

EDIT: Looks like the main issue is memory. You really need around 120MB completely free to play this game. 256MB memory devices like most SmartPhones and PDAs (eg the smaller "Internet tablets") are going to have troubles. I managed to, by a lot of work, free up enough to get the game to run. I'm using a rooted firmware along with tools to kill off a lot of the normally running programs and the Zeam Launcher (home screen replacement.) If I kill everything in the system monitor before trying to play I get just barely enough memory free. Overall it IS a fun game, but I still get a few crashes from time to time which is more than just a bit annoying. They still really need to work on the game's efficiency or something -- or just give up and make it officially require 512MB of memory. Read more ›

54 of 72 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Developer Support January 17, 2012

By Keii

Amazon Verified Purchase

This game was first released in May of 2009 for PC. In Feb of 2010 it came out for iPhone. Over a year after it first came out, it was released on Android in May of 2010, which I quickly snatched up but was unable to play because it didn't work on the original Droid. Here it is, the middle of Jan 2012, and I still can't play this game on my brand newly released Galaxy Nexus. Almost 3 years of hearing about how great this game is, and I still can't play it.
The developer is terrible. Don't waste your money on them, they don't care about you.

Should the developer ever think to bother reading comments, the game doesn't work on the Galaxy Nexus. It often will hang when loading, or in the middle of playing. I can't even get past level 1-2 because of this.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely inferior to ipad version December 10, 2012

By I. Mazin

Amazon Verified Purchase

I was hoping that after a year they would have added tablet support, but to this day, the game is clunky and pixelated. do not buy.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Freezes/force closes on Samsung Galaxy Nexus December 16, 2011

By Mark S

Amazon Verified Purchase

Like I said, every time I play this game, I get a few minutes into it and it freezes. One star until it works for my device.