But re-creating that feeling - especially on Facebook - wasn't exactly easy. The gameplay is addictive (though quite a bit easier than in the original) and the sense of humor is pitch perfect. And thankfully the most basic plants, peashooters and sunflowers, take little time at all to mature.Īll of these new elements may make it sound like a very different game, but Adventures still feels very much like Plants vs. The wait-to-play structure can be annoying, but it can also be largely avoided by careful planning: If you regularly tend to your farm, you'll likely have a steady supply of plants for when you need them. Your little plot of farmland is also susceptible to attacks from the undead so in addition to growing plants to bring into battle, you can also place them around your home base to fend off the occasional wave of zombies. This requires either time (some of the more useful plants can take hours to grow), or if you're impatient, you can spend a few real-world dollars to speed things along. In fact, this might just be the biggest change in the game: this time around, the plants are in limited supply.Īs you use peashooters and walnuts in battle, your stock will deplete, and you'll need to grow more on your farm to replace them. Like seemingly every game on Facebook, Adventures gives you a virtual plot of land to customize you can add buildings that generate cash over time, and set up a nice little farm to grow zombie-destroying plants. But even though you'll be out on the road, you'll still need to protect your home. This time around, the plants are in limited supplyĪs you progress you'll unlock new plants to add to your arsenal, including some brand new weapons like an asparagus missile. This is the core of the game, and it helps keep things fresh by constantly putting you in different locations with different strategic possibilities: zombies will come in from different directions, for example, and sometimes you'll have multiple things to protect. Instead of just protecting your house, you'll also go out on road trips where you'll need to clear areas of zombies while protecting your RV. This all remains true in Adventures, though the formula has been tweaked a bit. In order to plant new weapons and defenses, you'll need to collect sunlight, which is generated by - you guessed it - sunflowers. Some plants are offensive (like a peashooter that literally shoots peas), while others are defensive (like a walnut that serves as a barrier). If, for some reason, you haven't played PvZ, the basic structure is simple: Zombies come shambling in from one direction, and you'll need to place various kinds of plants to keep them from reaching your home. While it contains many of the same features and a similar structure to other games on Facebook (there's even farming), Adventures still maintains that same addictive gameplay that made the original Plants vs. But games like Adventures could help change that. Despite the social network's best efforts, Facebook is still viewed as a home for spammy, sub-par games, not a platform for truly great titles. Zombies Adventures combines a thing you like with a thing you don't: it's a spin-off of Popcap's terrific strategy franchise, but it's also a game that's exclusively available on Facebook.
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