Thursday, August 19, 2010

Game2 - Game of the year! Plant VS Zombies (PVZ) !



PVZ is a computer game published by Pop Cap game company (http://www.popcap.com/) in 2009. Games in Pop Cap are usually online mode or download, also have the new iphone service for specify game. However, the complete game mode can only play after buy and download the game.



PVZ is the most famous game after 2009, other famous PopCap game are Zuma and Bejeweled etc. The story of PVZ is very simple- stop the zombies go inside ‘your’ house and eat your brain. How to stop them? Grow you plants! This is a strategy type game that means player have to use sunlight to ‘buy’ 3 kinds of game- plants who produce sunlight (sunflower & Sun-Shroom), plants fright against the zombies (beans, etc), plants protect your plants (Wall nut). Except the story mode, there also have another four modes for the game- Mini-Games, Puzzle, Survival and Zen Garden. Also have five battles for your war- day, night, fog, swimming pool and rooftop. Those different designs make the game really nice to play and spent a lot of time!





Outside the game, many related work have done by PVZ fever. No only image but also story and videos. For example, Zombies in peak hour attack, this is the video for a group of young people acted as zombies attacked commuters in a morning at the Southern Cross Station in Melbourne in Australia.


PVZ also very famous in China, it become the favour game for students and officers. The students of Harbin University of Science and Technology had film a video and acted as the plants and zombies that appeared in the game and…just play as same as the game. See how teens enjoy PVZ!! :D



PVZ garden



After spent half year on PVZ, I can survive until 30 levels in the Survival mode, complete about six times of the story mode and collected all the plants. The secret of being a winner is used the suitable combination of plants. For example, Twin Sunflower
is the best plant for produce sunlight when there are less empty space for plants, use 4-6 Spike-weeds (upgrade to spike-rocks)in font of Snow peas (slow the enemy), then plant Garlic on the first step of road No. 1,3,5 to limit zombies to road No. 2,4 is useful when player don't have much time and money. Winter Melons, Cob Cannon and Cattails is very powerful weapon in every game (if you have money :P) On the other hand, there also have plant without any power but very important. For example, Magnet-shrooms can remove helmets and other metal objects from zombies, potato mines is cheap and save time at the beginning of game. But the finally tip is, understand all of your plant can plant them on the most suitable place!

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