Plants vs Zombies Gameplay

Protect your home from ever more powerful waves of invading zombies by buying and placing various kinds of anti-zombie plants on your lawn.

The goal of Plants vs. Zombies is to protect your home from ever more powerful waves of invading zombies by buying and placing various kinds of anti-zombie plants on your lawn.

Plants vs. Zombies takes place on a lawn broken into rows and columns. Just beyond the left edge of the screen is your house, while just beyond the right side of the screen is the street. At the top of the screen is a seed tray that displays your current amount of sun as well as whatever seed packets you have available.

During each level, zombies slowly make their way leftward from the street towards your home. Your job is to resist the zombie attack by collecting sun and using it to buy various defensive plants to place on your lawn. If you destroy all the zombies in a level, you proceed to the next level. If a zombie makes it all the way to the left side of the screen, you lose.

Game modes on Plants vs. Zombies

* Adventure mode is the primary mode of Plants vs. Zombies, pitting you and your planting prowess against the hordes of the undead who hunger for both your brains and your real estate.
* Mini-games are unlocked once you receive the present in the middle of level 3-2 in Adventure mode. Access the mini-games by clicking the "Mini-Games" button on the Main Menu gravestone.
* Puzzle mode is unlocked once you receive the present in the middle of level 4-6 in Adventure mode. Access the puzzles by clicking the "Puzzle" button on the Main Menu gravestone.
* Survival mode is unlocked once you complete Adventure mode. Access Survival mode by clicking the "Survival" button on the Main Menu gravestone.
* Zen Garden is unlocked once you complete level 5-4 in Adventure mode. Access the Zen Garden by clicking the "Zen Garden" watering can on the Main Menu.

Basic Tips

1. Sun, sun, and more sun. Plant as many sunflowers as quickly you can; two columns of sunflowers is a good foundation for your sun economy.
2. Use cheap one-hit-kill plants like potato mines and squashes in the early stages of a level to give yourself time to plant more sunflowers.
3. Chompers and wall-nuts work exceedingly well together.

4. Wall-nuts on lily pads are effective against snorkel zombies.
5. It takes two cherry bombs to take down a Gargantuar.
6. Doom-shroom craters eventually fill in by themselves.

7. Frozen zombies eat slower than non-frozen zombies.
8. Puff-shrooms, being free, are extremely useful in nighttime levels.
9. Conehead zombies take two and a half times more hits as regular zombies.

10. Buckethead zombies take five times as many hits as regular zombies.
11. Multiple snow-peas in a row don't slow zombies down more than one snow pea.
12. Destroying graves with grave busters prevent zombies from emerging from them later.

13. The number of flags in the lower right-hand corner of the screen gives you a rough idea how long the level will be.
14. Roof cleaners are extremely handy items and are almost essential for beating the Pogo Party mini-game.
15. Feeding a hypno-shroom to a dancer zombie forces him to summon backup dancers to help you.

16. Torchwoods douse snow peas and fireballs unfreeze zombies.
17. Wall-nuts help prevent shooter zombies from killing your plants in the ZomBotany mini-game.
18. If you're having trouble with the Pogo Party or Bobsled Bonanza mini-games, try using the squash.

19. Jalapenos destroy the Zomboni as well as its ice trail.
20. Right-click during the Zombiquarium mini-game to tap on the glass.
21. In Vasebreaker puzzles, try breaking the vases on the right side first.

22. Dancer zombies, though expensive, can be very useful in the I, Zombie puzzles.
23. Cattail spikes can pop balloon zombies' balloons.
24. Magnet-shrooms can stop digger zombies by stealing their mining picks.

25. Magnet-shrooms can be used to remove ladders from wall-nuts and tall-nuts.
26. Cherry bombs can dislodge ladders from wall-nuts and tall-nuts.
27. Tall-nuts are particularly useful against dolphin riders and pogo zombies.

28. Zombonis, catapult zombies, screen door zombies and ladder zombies are all resistant to torchwood fire.
29. In Survival mode, upgrade plants become more expensive the more you have on your lawn.
30. Imps, though weak, can be surprisingly useful on I, Zombie puzzles.

31. The more ricochets you achieve in Wall-nut Bowling, the more coins you'll earn.
32. Playing Survival: Endless mode is an excellent way to earn coins.
33. If Crazy Dave runs out of marigolds at his shop, come back the next day for more.

Type These Codes In At Any Time While Playing The Game.

pinata: a shower of candy when a zombie dies
trickedout: Alternate Lawn Mower appearance
future: Gives zombies futuristic shades
sukhbir: toggles the zombie's call for brains-sound
daisies: Zombies leave small daisies behind when killed
Mustache: Zombies Now Have Mustaches
tohot: Infinite Sun