It’s a good day to have an Android or Android enabled device. Plants vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time, the free sequel the one of the best video games of all time, is now available for those of us who don’t necessarily have an iPad. (Link goes to Google play store).
Rumor has it that Apple laid out some serious cash to make PvZ2 an iPad exclusive. If this is true (and even if it is not), the takeaway is that PVZ2 is an excellent game with a huge following. A following that just got more huge. Huger. A horde, if you will.
A horde of shambling, shuffling, drooling gamers, slowly walking along the sidewalk, heads bent over their Galaxy S IIIs and their Droid Razrs and their Kindle Fires.
If you don’t know about PvZ, I’m not sure what planet you’ve been living on, but briefly: it’s a unique version of a tower defense game: place weaponized plants in rows to defeat oncoming shamblers. Plants come in a variety of specialties, from simple pea-shooters to cabbage-apults to coconut cannons.
Zombies are varied as well: simple shufflers, hard-headed bucket-helmet wearers, even zombies that burrow under the ground.
PVZ2 ups the ante by introducing three genre-specific themes—you start off in ancient Egypt, eventually move to a Pirate world, and finally you find yourself fighting cowboy zombies in the Old West.
Free? Yes, with optional (and let me stess: not required) in-app purchases available.
Fun? Very.
Addictive: let me put it this way. Your goal in PVZ and PVZ2 is to stop the zombies from eating your brains. But trust me, by the time you’ve poked the screen for a few minutes, your own brain has no hope.
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