When it comes to designing incredibly addictive, infinitely playable casual games, no company can match the track record of the magicians at Popcap Games. Zuma was marvelous. Even more so, Peggle. But with the release of Plants vs. Zombies, Popcap has truly outdone itself by crafting what is one of the most fun, engaging, and dare I say flawless games of this generation. Hyperbole this is not.
Popcap Games’ DS port of Plants vs. Zombies makes an already great PC/Mac game even better.
Plants vs. Zombies brings the long-fought 2D war to the Nintendo DS.
Popcap’s Plants vs. Zombies tells the eternal tale of flora’s battle against the walking dead, but the war has escaped the digital realm into the physical.
After delivering strategic zombie-bopping mayhem to the iPhone and iPod touch, Popcap Games’ much-lauded Plants vs. Zombies makes its Apple iPad debut. But this isn’t just Plants vs. Zombies, it’s Plants vs. Zombies HD. The difference? Multi-Touch support, a 1040 x 768 resolution, and butter. BUTTER.
If it seems as though Popcap Games marvelous cute and inventive take on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies, has been in the works for the iPhone/iPod touch for a long, long time, it has – the game was first announced in last August. Although Popcap Games didn’t make its “late 2009″ window, I [...]
Irresistible. There isn’t much other way to describe Popcap Games’ Plants vs. Zombies, an addictive and infinitely charming take on the tower defense genre. Instead of planes, tanks, mechs, or other miscellaneous items, the title demands that you defend a suburban home from a zombie invasion using the flora that you plant in your lawn. [...]
When one thinks of the city that I call home, typically the Yankees, Broadway, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Coney Island, and a dozen other landmarks and locales comes to mind, but the Big Apple also throws one heck of a Halloween party; absolutely killer if I were to draw from the well of [...]
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