There are also random encounters such as Glowing zombies that drop essential plant food power ups when killed or the elusive Treasure Yeti that drops a treasure chest filled with keys of diamonds if you can catch and kill him. These new areas offer more zombie variety, there are unique zombie variants to each world such as Pharaoh zombies that attempt to steal your sun globs. This reviewer spent most of his time in ancient Egypt channeling his inner Rick O’Connell to battle the undead. Popcap took nothing away from the sequel, they made it even better and the levels and map designs show it. All of these places look great on the iPhone screen, the colors pop, the zombies shuffle perfectly. You to get travel to pirate times, ancient Egypt and the Wild West. You don’t just get to defend your house in rural America anymore as in this version you get whisked through time itself by Crazy Dave in his epic quest to re-eat a taco.

Now you can Flick, Zap and Pinch your foes into oblivion at the cost of around 1000 in game coins (more can be bought with real currency but the in-game supply proved to be more than adequate) which continues to show how Popcap have beefed up this mobile classic. Popcap have even introduced new powers for when things get really hectic. Even the conveyor belt levels from the original make a comeback in Plants Vs Zombies 2 allowing you to really get stuck in with your strategic gardening skills. Activating the plant food is a cinch as well, you drag the plant food on the screen to the desired plant and then boom, zombie death mayhem. To gain sunlight and plant food all you have to do is tap the little star-burst when it appears on the screen. The controls are very simple and intuitive, you drag the plant to the square you want to place it and repeat that over and over. They don’t hinder the sequel, they make it much more like a fresh, crisp head of lettuce. In any sequel it’s always nice to have new character additions, and seeing as there really are no characters other than the plants, new plants makes up for that. The plant food is a nice new addition to the game, if you use it on your plants they do a special move and can take out waves of pesky zombies. And finally the Power Lily which spawns plant food like the normal sunflower that spawns sunlight. This makes him useful if a zombie has eaten a plant and is about to devour another because you can place Bonk behind the zombie and he’ll still be able to attack. Bonk Choy is a close range attacker and can rapidly punch in all directions. The Iceberg Lettuce plant freezes any zombie when they stomp on it, so it’s easier for other plants to lay waste to the attacker. The Bloomerang shoots boomerang type projectiles at the zombies and it hits the zombie twice, once and the way out and once coming back. Some of the most useful new plants are The Bloomerang, Iceberg Lettuce, Bonk Choy and the Power Lily.

These plants add some excitement to the game, but for the most part the player sticks with the old standbys to defeat the hordes. Popcap has added ten new plants, with a possibility of more to come, to the game.

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