Plants vs. Zombies

The best $10 game I have ever played. And I've played Peggle. *And* Puzzle Quest. Yes, it's really that good. I've already gotten a good 10-15 hours out of it, and I've still got a lot of Puzzles and Minigames and Survivals to do. So, it's a *long* 10 dollar game. It's also amazingly fun.

Plants vs Zombies is a Tower Defense/Defend Your Castle type game, but with an interesting twist. Your goal is to defend your house from zombies. You do that by planting your lawn with plants. Each plant costs a certain amount of sun to grow. Sun drops from the sky and also is produced by sunflowers. You have to manage resource building with zombie killing. It's much easier (Well, the main mode, anyway) than flash based defense games, but it's not a pushover. A few of the levels gave me a good run. I never died, though. The main adventure has 50 levels, with the Minigames, Puzzles, and Survivals being another 50.

The game has, actually, a surprising amount of depth. There are dozens of plant types to plant, 5 different stage types, and then also dozens of zombies to counter. And then each of the puzzles and minigames is something different but along the same line as the main game. In one game, you play as the zombies, trying to beat a plant setup; in another you play Bejeweled, only with plants. And zombies coming to eat the plants.

Oh, and the game is surprisingly funny. Each plant and zombie has an entry in an almanac in the game. Most of them are worth a chuckle, and some of the zombies are just hilarious to see.

There's no story and the music is just sort of in the background (Though, it does have an *awesome* credits song). The graphics are great. Gameplay carries the game, though. As it should.

Very, very worth 10 bucks. Worth even the $20 it goes for on PopCap, but just get it on Steam for $10.