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February 2012
 One of the first levels, which uses only 3 strips of land to ease you into the game. |  You need sun to plant the flowers. Sun falls from the sky, but can be generated much faster with sunflowers. In this screenshot, I have two rows of sunflowers, two upgraded green peashooters, a blue peashooter which freezes the zombies to slow them down, and at the front I have walnuts, which the zombies must slowly chew through to advance. |  You need to plant lily pads on the pool if you want to plant anything there that can attack zombies. |
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 |  The end credits feature a zombie dance party. |  I'll take the zombies' word for it . . . |
 Zombie dolphins?! |  Zombie dance party on the roof. |  This is a screenshot from the night survival mode. Some zombies carry screen doors, but shooting poison mist at them goes right through. The corn cobs can launch massive missiles to knock out a large area of zombies. The onions on the top and bottom rows funnel the zombies into the middle three rows, making things more manageable. |
 Night levels with the pool creates fog, and you need lanterns if you want to see what's coming. The "cat tails" shoot homing bullets that can reach any lane. |  These flowers generate coins, which are good for purchasing new flowers or other upgrades. |  Wave 30 of endless survival. At this point, the density of the zombies is so great that individual bullets aren't nearly enough. This is why most of my plants do damage to an area and not to individual zombies. |
 I keep the cat tails around to shoot down the balloon zombies. The disco zombies summon some additional zombies that dance like Michael Jackson in "Thriller." |  Well, I made it 60 rounds before getting my brains eaten. |  Apparently this zombie was Sideshow Bob. |
 This screenshot documents that, at one time, I was 3rd in the world on endless survival mode. Of course, this WAS 3 days after the launch of a new and somewhat obscure platform . . . I've seen PC screenshots where people are into the 1,500th flags in endless survival. |  |  I found this an effective way to farm for coins. There is a level where the goal is to plant starfruit in all of the designated areas, and more and more zombies come in throughout the level. Just don't plant the last starfruit and so many zombies start coming that you'll get quite a few coins from defeating them. |
 |  Possibly the best final boss name ever: Dr. Edgar Zomboss |  All of the nighttime plants. |
 All of the water plants. |  All of the daytime lawn plants. This screen is known as the "zen garden." |  Not bad. . . Not bad . . . |
 You can buy new plants and upgrades from Crazy Dave. |
Plants vs. Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies is on many, many platforms, including this version on the PS Vita. In case you are one of the few people unfamiliar with this game, I'll explain the basics.
PVZ is a type of tower-defense game. The only difference is that you are trying to protect your house from zombies who walk across your lawn in different "lanes." You build plants (this game's version of a tower) who have a variety of attacks designed to take down the zombies; the zombies also come in a variety of forms.
The game itself is very well designed and does a great job of teaching you new mechanics regularly while also providing just the right amount of challenge. The main campaign includes levels across a regular lawn, a lawn with a pool, night levels, and levels on the roof of the house. The game also features mini-games and an endless survival mode. Highly recommended!