plants against zombies
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| Original title | Plants vs. Zombies | ||
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 PopCap Games
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PopCap Games |
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
May 5, 2009 | ||
| platform | Windows , macOS , Windows Phone 7 , iOS , Xbox 360 , PS3 , NDS , DSiWare , Android , Bada , Blackberry Tablet OS , PSVita , Google Chrome , NOOK | ||
| genre | Tower defense , strategy | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Mouse and keyboard / touchscreen | ||
| system advantages preconditions |
For Microsoft Windows | ||
| medium | Download , CD-ROM | ||
| language | English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese | ||
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Plants vs. Zombies (English name: Plants vs. Zombies ) is a tower defense - game in which the player his house with the help of various plants against attacking zombies to defend. It is available as a free download from the website of the developer PopCap Games, the Apple App Store , the Google Play Store , the online service Steam , the download service Origin , Microsoft's online network Xbox Live or Sony's PlayStation Network . It is also sold through retail outlets in North America and Europe. The DS version was released in Europe on April 15, 2011. A slightly shortened version of the DS version appeared on May 6, 2011 as DSiWare in Europe. On February 21, 2012 the developer PopCap Games released a version for the PlayStation Vita . The successor Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released on August 15, 2013. Another successor called Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare was released in February 2014. The trading card game Plants vs. Zombies Heroes for iOS was released in October 2016.
Gameplay
The aim of the game is to defend your own house (on the left edge of the screen ) against a horde of zombies coming from the right by building a defense in the front yard, back yard and on the roof made of differently defensive plants and mushrooms, which then attack the attacking opponents . Placing the plants costs sunlight, which on the one hand falls from the sky, on the other hand is generated by sunflowers and mushrooms and must be collected by the player in both cases. In the original version , which was released for Windows , a total of 49 different types of plants and fungi are available to withstand the 26 different types of opponents; For example, mushrooms can only be used at night, some plants are only suitable for the pool in the backyard levels and others are designed for the last roof levels. In fact there is a plant to defend against for every opponent.
Game modes
The central game mode is called Adventure and consists of 50 successive levels that are played first in the front yard and in the back yard - day and night - and finally on the roof of the house. Crazy Dave leads through the levels (in the German version Deppie Dave ), a neighbor who on the one hand gives the player tips and on the other hand runs a shop in the trunk of his car, in which the player can stock up on various expansions that he can use from zombies dropped coins paid. In addition, new plant types and game modes are unlocked in the course of the game, until the last level is up against the final boss Dr. Zomboss to exist. Afterwards, in addition to the numerous other game modes, the adventure mode can also be played again on a higher level of difficulty, whereby three of the available plants are randomly selected by Dave and thus a smaller number of slots is available for your own plants.
Another game mode is initially Mini-Games , which contains 20 mini-games such as Nut Bowling , Beghouled (a Bejeweled version) and Hau den Zombie (a variation of the Whac-A-Mole game). Some of these games are also part of Adventure Mode. The version released for Apple's iPad also contains the game Buttered Popcorn .
There are also the modes of puzzle and survival ; The former contains 10 levels each of the games Vase Breaker and I, Zombie , the latter can only be played after completing the adventure mode and consists of a further 10 levels in which the player must survive several rounds in a row with the same defense. Passing these levels unlocks the final endless levels in the puzzle and survival mode. With Survival (Endless) you can play any number of rounds with the same defense.
A zen garden is also only unlocked after playing through the adventure mode , in which the player can grow plants that the zombies now occasionally drop and which, with appropriate care, generate additional coins, which in turn can be put back into extensions for the garden. In addition, the player can grow a tree of wisdom , which has numerous tips for the game and some cheats .
style
The entire game is comic-like and humorous. There is an almanac (the suburban lexicon ) in which all known zombie and plant species are listed with a short history, playing through is rewarded with the specially created music video Zombies on your Lawn in game graphics and the game's help mode consists of a slip of paper signed by the zombies that states, “When the zombies show up, just keep quiet and do nothing. You win the game when the zombies your Hauss [ sic reach!] "( Engl. " When the zombies show up, just sit there and do not do anything. You win the game When the zombies get to your Houze " ).
The game also contains numerous allusions to phenomena of pop culture , particularly in the names of the mini-games, the Beghouled (an allusion to the online game Bejeweled ), Portal Combat (an allusion to the computer games Mortal Kombat and Portal ) or All your brains belong to us (an allusion to the famous internet quote “ All your base are belong to us ”). The developers had to forego some of these jokes for legal reasons: The originally planned title Lawn of the Dead , which was supposed to allude to the film Dawn of the Dead , was discarded and the design of the Dancing Zombie , whose outfit was originally given to Michael Jackson in remembered his music video Thriller , subsequently changed.
music
The music was composed by the freelancer Laura Shigihara , who also wrote and sang the unlockable song Zombies on your Lawn .
reception
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The game received excellent reviews nationally and internationally - despite the still uncommon way of marketing it via the Internet and the comparatively simple game principle. It was rated 9.0 out of 10 by the English-language site IGN.com , and the German magazine PC Games also gave it a rating of 90%. On Gamerankings.com the game is rated with an average of 88.32%.
The game also attracted attention outside the specialist press and received positive reviews in the New York Times and the Independent, among others .
In 2009, the game also received several awards: The site gamebrit.com named it “PC Game of the Year”, Ellie Gibson declared it her “ Game of the Year” on eurogamer.net , and it came fifth from MTV among the “Multiplayer's Top 5 Games of 2009” and was named “Best Strategy Game of 2009” by USA Today and CNN . From the website iVillage.com it was finally considered among the best 16 games in 2009 for students.
The game was nominated for the Game Developers Choice Award 2010 in the categories “Best Game Design”, “Innovation” and “Best Downloadable Game”, but could not win any of the prizes.
Trivia
- With the Cataclysm expansion , the World of Warcraft quest series Peacebloom vs. Introduced Ghouls , which you can complete to earn a new WoW pet: A Singing Sunflower, voiced by Laura Shigihara . The entire quest line - like the pet - pays homage to Plants vs. Zombies .
- The game features a character, the Zomboni, a zombie who drives an ice resurfacing machine with a capital Z on the bonnet. The plant and zombie lexicon in the game refers to the approval of the Zamboni company and its website.
Web links
- Official website of PopCap Games
- Official browser game for Google Chrome
- Wiki about the game series "Plants versus Zombies"
- David Sondermann: Plants vs. Zombies , macinplay, September 30, 2009
- Susan Arendt: Review: Plants vs. Zombies , The Escapist, May 5, 2009
- Chris Donlan: The Friday Game: Plants Vs Zombies ( Memento from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), EDGE - The Global Game Industrie Network, September 25, 2009 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Link on store.steampowered.com .
- ↑ PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies Dances Into Retail for PC and Mac ( memento June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Pop Cap press release of August 20, 2009 (accessed February 14, 2010).
- ↑ a b PopCap.com (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Julian Dasgupta: Now also as an iPad version , 4players.de, April 3, 2010 (accessed on August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Review on PCGamer.se (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Plants vs. Zombies: Michael Jackson Allusion Removed , PC Games , July 28, 2010 (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Interview with Laura Shigihara ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English). April 5, 2009, accessed August 12, 2012.
- ^ Paul Kautz: Plants vs. Zombies , 4Players.de, May 7, 2009 (accessed August 12, 2012)
- ↑ Computer Bild Spiele 3/2009 (accessed on August 12, 2012)
- ↑ a b c Daemon Hatfield: Plants vs. Zombies Review - When plants and zombies fight, gamers win. IGN.com, May 5, 2009 (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Wolfgang Fischer, Florian Stangl : Plants vs. Zombies - Review of the Tower of Defense with Zombies , PCGames.de, May 15, 2009 (accessed on August 12, 2012)
- ↑ Meta-evaluation "Plants against Zombies". In: Metacritic . CBS Corporation , accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Meta-evaluation "Plants against Zombies". In: GameRankings . CBS Corporation , accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ SETH SCHIESEL: If You Lose Your Mind, You Risk Having It Eaten , The New York Times, June 13, 2009, p. C5.
- ↑ Chris Brandrick: Gamebrit Awards 2009: The Winners ( memento of March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), gamebrit.com, January 6, 2010 (accessed February 14, 2010).
- ↑ Ellie Gibson: Games of 2009: Plants vs. Zombies , eurogamer.net, December 26, 2009 (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Russ Frushtick: MTV Multiplayer's Top 5 Games Of 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , multiplayerblog.mtv.com, December 18, 2009 (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ Marc Saltzman: Grab these best video game picks of '09 , usatoday.com, December 3, 2009 (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ^ Marc Saltzman: The best video games of 2009 , usatoday.com, December 16, 2009 (accessed August 12, 2012).
- ↑ From Tykes to Teens: The Best Video Games of the Year ( Memento of March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 14, 2010).
- ↑ Cf. Archives | 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards , gamechoiceawards.com, (accessed December 3, 2010).
- ^ Singing Sunflower Pet
