Plants vs. Zombies demo released

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 May, 2009

Trowel version.

With Plants vs. Zombies out today, it seems like a good time to point out that there's a free downloadable demo on the official site for PC or Mac.

It's 26MB and gives you a taste of PopCap's ingenious new spin on tower defence, which costs GBP 14.95 from the same page and picked up a 9/10 score in today's review.

As the name suggests, Plants vs. Zombies pits the forces of agriculture against the forces of evil. You position Pea Shooters (guns), Wall-Nuts (barriers) and other puntastic weaponry to intercept the right-to-left advance of the undead.

It's a deceptively simple version of games like Fieldrunners, then, but it's very, very well done, with elements like resource-gathering (sunlight, of course), separate day and night arsenals, moreish mini-games and thoughtful enemy design.

It's also got the best help screen in recent history. And Michael Jackson.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (2) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 3 years ago

    It is totally awesome, and for some reason half the price with a free game on Steam.

  • Spielo #2 3 years ago

    Indeed, £7 on Steam! Considering that you can buy Left4Dead for less than £15 and Little Big Planet for £8, it's hard to justify £15 for a game that cost a fraction of those to develop. £7 is fine with me though.