It’s all been too much for the entertainment industry. After a day of hunting down a journalist so they could be quoted on how much they admired Farrah Fawcett (she was blonde, she had breasts), fresh outpourings of grief were required following the sudden death of the king of pop (bit of a dancer, bit of a peado, could hold a tune).
Madonna reported, via her agent and PR machine, that she couldn’t stop crying (how many of us felt the same way when we heard her last album?). I would like to report that I marked the passing of the great man by playing Plants Vs. Zombies.
You live in a house. You have a wide lawn. There are zombies who want to cross your lawn and eat your brains. You have to gather sunshine and set down plants that will attack, hinder, explode and generally thwart the zombies in their quest for your brain. This is the simple premise for Plants Vs. Zombies, but PopCap Games have taken the premise and turned it into one of the most entertaining games I have played for a long time.
It starts simply enough. There are plants that fire goo that will eventually remove a zombie’s head. There are rocks to block the zombies; and the zombies are simple shuffling creatures, sometimes with a bucket perched jauntily on their head for extra protection. But as the game progresses, the plants get weirder, there is night, there is fog, there are swimming pools, and the waves of zombies getting progressively stranger and funnier.
There are zombies with bobsleighs, pole vaulting zombies, zombies with ice-making machines; and best of all, there is a Michael Jackson zombie.
In true Thriller style, complete with appropriate music, spotlights and a team of back-up dancers, he jerks his away across your garden. Brilliant, if a bit challenging to stop.
I think we should all mark this sad day by dedicating ourselves to an extended session of Plants vs. Zombies. Downloadable at $9.99, you will get at least six hours of entertainment from playing through the main game, and there are hours more to be had from all the sub-games, including Beghouled, a zombie version of Bejeweled.
Some might say that playing a game where you knock off Michael Jackson’s zombified head with pieces of vegetable is not an appropriate token of respect; but, you know, I think it’s just the sort of thing he would have appreciated.
For those that didn’t know. Michael Jackson passed away yesterday at 14.10 (that’s when the large hand touches the small hand.. oh stop it).
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2010-02-16| Spike saysNow available on the iPhone. Hours of zombie slaying madness; and more Michael Jackson.