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PopCap Hits Volume 2 | |
| Developer: PopCap Publisher: PopCap Release Date: Out Now Players/Online features: 1-4 players. |
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Four games for the price of one could be considered an incredible bargain—If only the games were better. The games cater for 1-4 players (Feeding Frenzy 2 and Heavy Weapon), 1 player for Zuma and Plants versus Zombies, and here's a little blurb on each one. Zuma is a popular pattern matching game where you control a stone frog that shoots coloured bubbles at a line of coloured bubbles moving along a track before it gets to the end. Making a line of three or more bubbles of the same colour causes the group to disappear. There is very little more to be said about this. The Aztec aesthetic is as simple as it needs to be, the gameplay is simple, compulsive, but ultimately dull. Heavy Weapon is a very simple two dimensional shooter where the tank you control rolls along the bottom of the screen shooting down enemy planes. Unlike the other games, this does not have the same clever cutesy appeal or clever gameplay dynamic. It's an utterly forgettable old-school 2D shooter.
Easily the most captivating of the four is Plants versus Zombies. It is a basic tower defence game, where you protect a home from marauding cartoony zombies stomping through the front yard using aggressive gardening. Planting different sort of plants that shoot seeds, or obstruct zombies, or sunflowers that generate more sun icons that enable you to plant more plants. PvZ sounds silly but is deceptively clever and addictive, for a while at least. That really is all there is to say about the games. They don't set the world alight but they are harmless. At a push, they are excellent introductions to games for those who are unfamiliar, and if you enjoyed PopCap Hits then it’s
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- i>Plants versus Zombies is fun while the joke lasts. - Easily digestible for those who have never picked up a joypad before. |
- Feels like a cynical ploy on the part of PopCap to harness the console market. |
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