Action Flick Chick

Posted By Action Flick Chick on May 7, 2010

Day #7: Plants Vs. Zombies (PVZ)

General Thoughts: Plants vs. Zombies is a dear, dear favorite of mine. Playing it on either the computer or the iphone, Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense style game where you plant various kinds of plants that will defend your yard against invading zombies. Sun rains from the sky to energize your floral firepower. There are a ton of fun and useful plants to pick from, and plenty of wacky zombie types to place a plant beatdown on. Zombies with pick axes, zombies in boxer shorts, zombies scuba divers riding zombie dolphins, the list goes on and on. The game is very forgiving, and has a low learning curve so that even the most casual of gamer can enjoy it. You can get by pretty easily in the first rounds and it basically holds your hand and powders your butt and experienced gamers can wrack their brains trying to figure out how to best use the different type of plants against the different zombie types. I love, love, love, the survival mode, which is the where things get really tough and you have to use everything you’ve got just to make it to the next level.

31 Minutes of Play: Seeing as how I’ve beaten this game previously, I decided to go back and play some survival mode. I had just made it to 8 flags and have a strong and healthy field, and I’m chugging along wiping out wave after wave of zombies without breaking a sweat. Looks like Crazy Dave is safe for now. Braggin’ time: my record in survival mode is 52 freakin’ flags! I’m quite proud of that accomplishment, and I tell it to everyone I can find that’ll listen- from my friends, to the mailman, to the neighborhood dogs. Strategy-wise, I always like to have some super spikes in my first few rows and then some super puffers. Those super puffers will absolutely puff the ass right off those zombies. I start with as many sunflowers as I can get away with to get plenty of sun, and then slap a heaping helping of pumpkins on everything to keep my plants nice and armored. A word to the wise: even if you are maxed out with 9999 sun, it always seems to run out right when you need it most. So don’t think you can ever have too much sun.

Craziest Moment: Let’s see, I was throwing frozen watermelons at zombies riding pogo sticks when an escaped mental patient zombie with an exploding Jack-in-the-box went Kamikaze on my first few plants. Meanwhile, a horde of tunneling zombies had tunneled underneath my plants and were attacking me from behind! And that was just flag 8!

Fun Rating: 5 Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies, out of 5!

This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!

Categories: video game
Tags: Crazy Dave, Peashooter, Plants, Plants vs. zombies, PVZ, Tallnut, There's a zombie on my lawn, There's a zombie on your lawn, Twiddydinkies, zombies