The game features all of the vibrantly detailed 2D visuals found in the retail release, including all of the assorted plant and zombie animations. The simplicity of the game's controls make playing the game a lot of fun since you won't have to spend your time trying to learn an overly complicated control system, something you'll soon appreciate when the action heats up in later levels.įrom a visual standpoint, nothing has really changed from the DS release. It might have been nice to be able to just touch the plant you wanted to use and then tap the area you wish to position it in, but the dragging scheme works well enough once you get a handle on it. Much of your work will be done by merely touching the plant you wish to make use of and dragging it to the spot on your lawn where you wish to plant it. The touchscreen controls the game makes use of work very well in handling the intense action you'll be facing. Zombies are all quite playable and entertaining. While mini-games sometimes end up being rather forgettable add-ons to a game, the mini-games in Plants vs. There's also a rather fun Air Raid mini-game that turns the game into a horizontal shoot 'em up in which you'll match firepower with the zombies and their oversized spacecraft. Each home run awards you valuable sunshine that can be used to pick up the very plants you'll need in order to stop the zombies that are headed towards your house. Home Run Derby puts you up against the zombies where you'll try to hit home runs using your stylus. The mini-games are generally fairly simple in their design and feel more like a fun diversion than any type of additional gameplay mode. There's even a brand new and exclusive mini-game called Zombie Trap for you to play. Zombies loses the VS., Puzzle, and Survival modes of play, but all four of the retail DS mini-games are intact. All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game).As you play your way through the Adventure Mode, you'll unlock not only new plants and tools, but also a host of fun mini-games. You'll also be able to choose which sets of plants you take into battle with you, another strategic part of the game that will require some thought and careful planning. As you complete a level, you'll be given access to a new plant, generally one that will be extremely useful for the upcoming levels.
In fact, planting the more docile sunflowers plays a key role in the game, as many situations will place you in a position where sunshine will be in very short supply, sometimes unavailable at all during nighttime levels.Īdventure Mode is the meat of the game and allows you to play through the game's increasingly more difficult levels.
Some plants pack some serious firepower, but they tend to require a lot of sunshine, something that doesn't come easy throughout the game. Each plant has its own unique firepower or function and it's up to you to figure out which plants work better for the myriad of situations you'll find yourself stuck in. Zombies, you take control of a huge variety of plant life in your effort to stop the impending barrage of zombies from getting into your house. So does this lite version of the DS release have enough punch to make it worth your Nintendo Points, or would gamers be better off ponying up the extra money for the retail release? But what does seem a bit surprising is that only two months later the company has now chosen to release a slightly stripped down version of the game for DSiWare service after many fans already went out and purchased the DS retail release. Zombies has been released on quite a number of platforms already, so it certainly wasn't a surprise to see the game make an appearance recently on Nintendo's DS system.
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