Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant…
Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition is a puzzle developed by PopCap Games, released 9 August 2010 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition is
Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition is a puzzle game developed by PopCap Games and released in 2010. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Popcap Games Framework.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Plants vs. Zombies is a video game franchise created by George Fan. The series follows the affiliates of David "Crazy Dave" Blazing as they use his plants to defend against a zombie invasion, led by Dr. Edgar George Zomboss. The first game, Plants vs. Zombies (2009), was developed by PopCap Seattle and released by PopCap Games before being acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). After PopCap Games' acquisition, EA expanded the game into a franchise with games on many different platforms, including a comic book series written by Paul Tobin and published by Dark Horse Comics, and a web series published by Dorkly.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, kids and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Plants vs. Zombies series
Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition is the second of 21 entries we hold in the Plants vs. Zombies series. It arrived a year after Plants vs. Zombies. The next entry was Plants vs. Zombies DS in 2011. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 at 85.
How it was received
Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 65.6 hrs, roughly 8.2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.2GHz+ processor, 1GB of RAM and 128MB of video memory, 16-bit or 32-bit color quality. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition launched on 9 August 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition. All of them reviewed better.
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Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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