Planting costs "sun", which can be gathered for free (albeit slowly) during daytime levels and by planting certain plants or fungi which produce sun over time.
The playing field is divided into 5 to 6 horizontal lanes, each with lawnmowers, and with rare exceptions, a zombie will move towards the player's house along one lane only (the main exception is if it has bitten garlic, causing it to move to another lane). Zombies, players place different types of plants and fungi, each with their own unique offensive or defensive capabilities, around their house, in order to stop a horde of zombies from reaching it.
Zombies and its sequel, and a digital collectible card game, Plants vs. Zombies 3 respectively two third-person shooters, Plants vs. Zombies 2, released in 2013 for iOS and Android, and Plants vs. It was followed by one direct sequel and another made for mobile devices, Plants vs. The game received critical acclaim and was nominated for multiple Interactive Achievement Awards, alongside receiving praise for its musical score. If a zombie makes it to the house on any lane, the level is over.ĭirector George Fan was inspired to make the game after playing other tower defense titles and desiring to eliminate the typical strategies of sending advancing enemies through mazes of defenses, instead adapting the lane approach to remove this strategy. Zombies approach along several parallel lanes on the lawn, and the player must plan defenses in these lanes. The player collects "sun" with which defending plants can be bought. To defend their home from zombies, some of which have unique abilities, the player uses plants that can fire projectiles at, or have other detrimental effects on, the horde of advancing zombies. Zombies, the player takes the role of a homeowner in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Zombies is a tower defense and strategy video game developed and originally published by PopCap Games for Windows and OS X in May 2009, and ported to consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices, and in remastered versions for personal computers.