Moblie Game

Game Title: Plants Vs. Zombies Heroes             Publisher:  Popcap

Year:  2016                                                           ESRB Rating: Everyone

Platform:  Mobile                                                  Genre:  Collectable Card Game

·         Fun Factor:  It’s very fun, it has a variety of different episodes/adventures to play, from collecting treasure in caves, to fighting a boss rush with limited supply of health drops. The major mechanic in this game is also a lot of fun, which are copy abilities that give you powerful moves or are used to solve puzzles.

·         Learning Curve: It starts you off with a tutorial on how to play the game, and then you’re on your own. It doesn't need much more explaining, since once it teaches you the mechanics, that’s all you need to know because the cards all have explanations on them if you tap on them, even in game if you tap on the minion, it says what it does.

·        Graphics:  The graphics are very cartoony and goofy. Very kid friendly with a super hero theme to the game. All the cards and heroes are very well animated from their lose/win animations to their surprised animations (from seeing legendary card), most of them have very humorous animations.

·         Audio: The music is very super hero themed, and really puts you in the heat of the battle. For example, the music gets more intense the closer one side is to deaths. There’s not much other music other than the battle music and menu music.

   

Controls:  Controls are simple, just drag the card to the lane you want to play the card

·         Story:  Dr. Zomboss has made a machine that turns things into superheroes to power up his zombie minions, but misfired and hit the plants as well, so now it’s an all-out battle between plant and zombie heroes. When you unlock heroes, you even get a little of their backstory though comics.

·        Characters: All the characters are unique and fit their playstyle very well. Like Rustbolt is a hearty brainy class. Hearty class is all about high health zombies and attack lowering tricks and minions to outlast the opponent. Brainy is all about trying to get more resources faster through the use of tricks that can give them more resources on that turn and such. Rustbolt is kind of like a parody of iron man, he has a power suit, that’s hearty and made because he’s brainy.

·         Game Design:  There’s a turn order, it goes like this; Zombies play their minions, plants then play their minions and tricks, and then zombies play their tricks, and then the fight phase. Both minions get to attack in a lane if not affected by anything, so no one minion goes first, like if they both have 1 attack and 1 health, they’ll  both kill each other.

·         Changes: I would like it to be easier for free to play players

·        Recommendation:  Even though its harder for free to play players I still recommend the game since its loads of fun and there is deck builders online with budget decks that can easily be obtained. You can also farm the gems used to buy booster packs by watching ads and doing daily and hero quests. There’s even daily events to get the event card of the week where you can test their strategy decks so you can get a taste of legendries sometimes. There is also a single player campaign and random battles to play if you want to play on your own against AI.