Plants vs. Zombies 2.0

Although Plants vs. Zombies is not the first game in its gender, it has several advantages which differentiate it from its competitors. First, in comparison with complex levels in the majority of tower defense games, PvZ has a really simple path. Zombies start moving from right to left in a straight line approaching to the user's base. The field consists of five distinct rows which zombies can’t change, as well as the majority of plants can act only on the one assigned to each of them.

After passing every 10 levels of the 50-stage Adventure Mode the environment gets some modification like creating a pool in the middle of the yard, switching to the night time, or placing the battle to the angled rooftop. One setting which never changes within the game is the right-to-left and separate row movement.When a zombie meets a plant, it will slowly chew it till it's eaten. As soon as a zombie reaches gamer's house, the game is lost. At every level the user can choose only several of 40 plant types, which possess different special qualities. For example, the walnuts guarantee defense, the peashooters provide offensive actions and the lily pads just give a possibility to grow simple plants near the swimming pool. Finishing the game, the user will have used almost all of the existing plants to overcome different obstacles of every levels, as well as about 25 distinct types of zombies' waves.

The resource management of the game is also very simple. Plants depend on the solar energy. In order to have enough solar power the gamer has to invest in sunflower plants which issue the necessary energy to strengthen the protection. At night periods of the game the most valuable plants will be mushrooms as they normally need much less sunpower to grow.

Getting to the end of the game it becomes more complicated as zombies receive much better defenses or special forces which allow them to surpass all the plants of some types at once. Nevertheless the users have some tricks to get out of the difficult situations.

The peculiarity of the game is that it can get totally chaotic at times, with huge plants and projectiles all over the screen and zombies smashing into them. At the same time PvZ does not have enough noticeable rewards for the changing degrees with which users can pass a level. It is impossible to improve some particular level by replaying a stage in adventure mode.

At the same time PvZ provides a nice compensation by offering three additional modes, i.e. minigames, puzzles, and survival. The first two modes are variations on zombie and plant topic. And in the third, survival mode, the user will have to protect his yard from growing waves of more and more complicated zombies. Users can select new plants for their deck after passing every next level, although the flowers planted before stay there as well.

Every mode includes up to 20 unlockable levels which permit the user to earn some money to buy upgrades for the plants in the game's shop like a special fertilizer for the trees to reveal a gameplay tip or secret.