Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year Edition

by PopCap Games

• Battle 26 types of zombies including pole-vaulters, snorkelers and Zomboni drivers, as well as being able to make your own fun dead creatures with the Zombatar only found in the Game of the Year Edition
• Tower defense gameplay playable on both PC and Mac platforms.
• Play five game modes: Adventure, Mini-Games, Puzzle, Survival, plus the stress-free Zen Garden.
• Conquer all 50 levels of Adventure mode - through day, night and fog, in a swimming pool and on the rooftop.
• Earn 49 powerful perennials and collect coins to buy a pet snail, power-ups and more

Product Details

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• ASIN: B002AUC5ZQ
• Item Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 18, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (142 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,310 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC/Mac | Edition: Game of the Year

From the Manufacturer

Get ready to soil your plants! Again! PopCap's fun-dead Game of the Year edition is updated and expanded with 20 all-new achievements and the interactive Zombatar™. Make your very own zombie, then watch it come to "life" in your game. You'll have to think fast, and plant faster, to stop the zombies dead in their tracks. Armed with 49 zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll defend your home against 26 types of zombies – including pole-vaulters, snorkelers, and bucket-heads. Battle through 50 Adventure levels, 20 Mini-Games, plus Puzzle and Survival modes. Or dig into the zombie-free Zen Garden. The fun never dies!

"Hilarious, dangerously addictive, truly ingenious."
– New York Times

"Plants vs. Zombies is fun in concentrated form, an intense dose of giggle-inducing entertainment beamed directly to your brain."
– The Escapist

Key Game Features:

• Battle the fun-dead in this expanded edition of Plants vs. Zombies, winner of over 25 awards including Puzzle Game of the Year (PC Gamer) and Strategy Game of the Year (USAToday.com).
• Play five game modes: Adventure, Mini-Games, Puzzle and Survival, plus the stress-free Zen Garden
• Conquer all 50 levels of Adventure mode – through day, night and fog, in a swimming pool and on the rooftop
• Create your own zombie with the all-new Zombatar, then see your zombie come to "life" in the game!
• Earn 20 in-game achievements to prove your zombie-zapping powers!

Screenshots:

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System Requirements: PC: Windows XP/Vista/7 1.2GHz processor 512+MB of RAM 65+MB of free hard drive space DirectX 8 or later DirectX-compatible sound/video 128MB of video memory 16-bit or 32-bit color quality CD-ROM or CD/DVD-ROM drive Keyboard Mouse

Mac: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11-10.6.x Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz or better processor 512MB of RAM 50+MB of free hard drive space 64MB of video memory Thousands or Millions of colors CD-ROM or CD/DVD-ROM drive Keyboard Mouse

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Tasty fun! August 18, 2009

By Z. Zaletel

Platform for Display:PC/Mac|Edition:Game of the Year

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

You wouldn't guess it from looking out your window, but the plants in your yard lead a very secret, dual existence. I'm not talking about the tomatoes and cucumbers you've got growing on the vine, which both look good and taste good. I'm talking about how they've sworn to defend you and your home from zombies. See, there's a long-standing grudge between plants and zombies. It turns out that zombies aren't much in the gardening department. Rather than discussing fertilizer and crop rotation, the typical zombie conversation is along the lines of,

"Brains? Brains brains... brains. Brains!"

No, zombies not much for repartee, and will usually just eat any plants in the path between them and some warm, gooey brains. Seeing as talking either plants or zombies is a losing venture, Popcap games have created Plants vs. Zombies (PvZ) to give an insight into this fascinating and fun, little discussed world.

The purpose of PvZ is quite simple, use a variety of plants to keep the zombies from getting into your house and eat your brains. You simply collect falling sunlight and sunlight created by sunflowers to purchase other plants with which you can attack wave after wave of zombies.

Easy, right?

The zombies aren't just your every day, dumb zombies. No, they'll attack at night, when you can't count on sunlight to fall from the sky. And if that doesn't work, they'll try your back yard - as I said, these zombies are relentless. On top of that, they've got whatever items they had when they became zombies. Some crafty zombies will pole vault over your defenses. Others will launch basketballs. Some nefarious zombies will attempt to moon-walk their way into your heart, or at least your kitchen so that they can sample your tasty brains.... Crafty, like I said.

Whenever you clear a wave of zombies, you are often awarded a new plant for use in your arsenal. On top of that, your stock-pot wearing neighbor Crazy Dave will show up occasionally, with words of wisdom and items to purchase which just might help in the battle. He's a good neighbor, that Crazy Dave.

I highly recommend PvZ - it is an addictive game that will suck away the hours - a full five-moose ranking. Beyond the adventure mode, Popcap have a number of other challenges types of play to keep things interesting. Puzzles, survival mode, and even a zen garden are there when you need a break from wave after wave grey-matter munchers. If I were to have a quibble with the game, it would be the robotic zombie finale? Can Dr. Robotnik be far away? Also, what about an extra-hard adventure mode where there are no last-resort lawnmowers to protect your home, or the zombies have bulked up on ZGH (duh - zombie growth hormone)?

PvZ runs on any mac with 10.4.11, 512 mb ram and a 1.66 ghz Intel Core Duo processor - it looks insanely great on my 24" iMac. The action will suck you in, along with anyone else in the room, who will cheer on your . A free download is available to give you a one-hour taste of the game, and then it's $19.95 to purchase. The soundtrack is catchy, and the music video will have you humming about zombies on your lawn for days. I'll probably have to uninstall it after I finish this review, just so that I can start getting things done again. Who am I kidding - just one more game...

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Let The Cheesy Cover and Title Fool You--This Game ROCKS! October 6, 2009

By Janet Boyer HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Platform for Display:PC/Mac|Edition:Game of the Year

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

A few weeks ago, I bought Zuma's Revenge because I liked the original Zuma. Well, on that PopCap PC game, there were several trial games, one being Plants Vs. Zombies.

"How stupid", I thought. But for some reason, I decided to install the trial version to see what it was.

Holy cow, talk about instant addiction!

I won't describe the game because it's been done here ad infinitum, but just know this game is SO FUN and addicting! I finally finished it last night (yes, I was having so much fun that I bought the full version in a store a few days ago, even though the trial offers about 1/3 of the game), but there are STILL a lot of fun mini-games to play and unlock. These are about as much fun as the actual game! (Beghouled, a twist on Bejeweled, is very clever...)

Basically, this is a strategy game, because different zombies have varying strengths and weak points (for example, a zombie carrying a screen door is best defeated with a bubble plant). So before the game, you have to choose exactly WHICH plants you want (which also have various strengths). These plants are powered by sunflowers, and clicking on the suns they provide to grow the plants.

The music is light-hearted (and hard to get out your head!), and Crazy Dave is, well, crazy! LOL My 11 year old pulled up a chair when I was playing the trial and wanted to have it. So of course, when we saw it in the store, we both lunged towards it! (He's about 3/4 through it and LOVES it. He frequently laughs out loud, too. The Garlic Plants are especially funny--zombies are grossed out by them and switch lanes...)

Get Plants Vs. Zombies. You won't regret it! It's the best PC game I do believe I've ever bought (and I own dozens).

Janet Boyer, Author of Back in Time Tarot

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A really cool game! September 6, 2009

By Mark Withers

Platform for Display:PC/Mac|Edition:Game of the Year

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

It's fun! Filled with Zombies who are after BRAINS!

I've always been a fan of monster/zombie games. When I saw this game on popcap, I was a bit skeptical as I always am when it comes to buying a game for my Macbook Pro.

This game is entertaining right from the start! And I also love the "Crazy Dave" character. He's really funny and just adds to the already-a-blast game of "Plants vs. Zombies"!

Lots of different plants are your arsenal of weapons to use to keep the zombies back from your house. There are many different types of Zombies as well. Some are more powerful than others so you have to use a bit of strategy (and economy) when deciding what types of plants to use against them.

Very addictive! I can't stop playing it. The sign of a truly great game in any genre.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and Highly Addictive August 18, 2009

By Diane Buxton

Platform for Display:PC/Mac|Edition:Game of the Year

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I don't play casual games often and never tried a casual strategy game before. I tried it out after seeing my brother play it on his computer, and I could not stop playing. I ended up playing it everyday until I beat most of it, and had a fantastic time to the very end. The humor is very well done - the types and personalities of plants and zombies are hilarious (the Tallnut, a defensive unit, sheds a single tear when it's close to dying). The gameplay is fast-paced but not so challenging that it gets frustrating. Some of the plants, which you use as weapons or defense, are not as useful as others, but part of the fun is in deciding which plants to put in your limited slots.

In addition to the main Adventure mode, the game includes four other modes: Mini-Games, Puzzle, Survival, and Zen Garden (where you grow plants that drop coins). These other game modes, other than Zen Garden, are all very "meaty" and just as fun to play as the Adventure mode (although a couple of the mini-games were more challenging than anything else I'd encountered). They are highly imaginative spins on the plants vs zombies formula, and none of them felt repetitive. I especially loved the mini-game "Beghouled", which is a version of Bejeweled where you match up the plants while fighting off the zombies trying to eat them.

I didn't complete every little piece of this game, but I did play most of it and probably took 20 hours, give or take. The important part is that not a single minute was tedious. Casual or not, this is one of the best games I've played.