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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Plants VS Zombies: All We Want is Brains and Ice Cream



Quickie: Download, Don't Buy the Monotony

My friend Mike introduced me to a new Pop Cap game highly inspired by a drug called LSD Plants VS Zombies. Thanks Mike, like I need another addiction.

Most Pop Cap games, like Peggle, Bejeweled and Insaniquarium feature overly cute characters and colors, making people with ADD become hopelessly addicted to the simple point gameplay.

I do not have a problem with casual games, in fact I love something simple and un-complex every once and a while just to feel like I accomplished something greater than myself. Also, these games meant for hours of gameplay, mainly because of the repetitiveness and simple goals like, kill the zombies.



Plants VS Zombies in particular features classic cute-Mario-world inspired plants designed to fight hordes of classic and pop-culture Zombies. It’s a nice twist to the Zombieland, Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead genera by adding killer-cute plants because I think the theme has been a little overdone.

Sure, this game was a great short distraction, but the levels are too long for my taste and buying the full version just to use different plants doesn’t seem worth it to me. I just wish they would add a fast-forward button, because sitting there waiting for the wave of corpses to come was b-o-r-i-n-g.



It's a simple game for simple players and there was nothing wrong with it as long as you take it in small doses, just like drugs. The industry makes millions of dollars by creating cheap-repetitive-games based on the human nature's need for something cute, fun, cheap, and achieving a simple accomplishment.

So, go ahead and kill some zombies with a peashooter, but save some cash.