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"Plants vs. Zombies 2 Review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's About Time!\nPlants vs. Zombies 2 is about time travel, but the name is also a joke about hoe long it's taken the company to make the sequel.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSearch for a Taco\nPlants vs. Zombies 2 sends you back in time to look for Crazy Dave's taco.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMap It Out\nUnlike the previous version of Plants vs. Zombies, gameplay is organized on a map.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Zombie Power Ups\nNew zombie power ups at the bottom of the screen let you pinch off zombie's heads, toss zombies off the screen, and electrocute zombies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnique Boards\nIn this board you're trying to defeat the zombies, and protect the sunflowers on the yellow squares that came pre-loaded onto the board.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Yeti\nPopCap plans to occasionally deploy the Yeti into the game. Available for a limited time when it appears, if you're able to defeat the Yeti you earn a lunchbox with a prize in it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYeti's Lunchbox\nAt the end of the level you have the option to open the defeated Yeti's box. Both times I defeated him I earned a gem.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Plants\nSpecial plants are available for $2.99-$3.99 as in-app purchases.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Boosts\nYou can also purchase slots for additional plant or plant food as in-app purchases.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlants vs. Zombies 2: It\u2019s About Time officially launched worldwide on Thursday. The highly anticipated sequel to PopCaps\u2019 insanely successful Plants vs. Zombies takes you on a quest to find Crazy Dave\u2019s taco \u2014 you may remember Dave as the guy who kept selling you things from the trunk of his car.\nSince Dave ate the taco in the original version of the game, you have to travel back in time, through ancient Egypt, pirate times and the Wild West, to search for it.\nSee also: The 15 Best Free iPad Games\nAs a huge fan of the original, I\u2019ve been playing the beta version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 for about a week and found it even more addictive than the first.\nFamiliar Gameplay\n\nAt its heart, Plants vs. Zombies 2 is exceptionally similar to the original game. Your goal as a player is to prevent the zombies from reaching the end of your path using plants super-charged with battling power.\nPlants vs. Zombies 2 keeps many of the same plants you came to know and love in the original, but you'll also receive number of new additions with fun and interesting abilities.\n\n\nPlants vs. Zombies 2: New Plants\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBloomerang\nBloomerang can throw boomerangs that then return to her, letting you hit zombies twice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBonkchoy\nBonkchoy is great at throwing punches.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChilibean\nSpicy and deadly.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeapod\nNeed a few more peashooters?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCoconut Cannon\nThe coconut cannon shoot, you guessed it, coconuts at the zombies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLightning Reed\nFeel the burn.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSnapdragon\nSnapdragon can spray fire across three rows at once.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Bloomerang, for instance, is a new flower-like plant that sends out boomerangs that hit zombies on both their way out and their way back to the plant. A new Snapdragon plant breathes fire that causes damage across three rows, and \u2014 one of my personal staples \u2014 Bonk Choy rapidly punches enemies that are not only in front of him but behind him as well.\nYou begin with much of the original cast of plants and then unlock additional plants along the way through different stages.\nBuilt-in Achievements\n\nPvZ 2 presents stages in a new way. Rather than play the game from start to finish, you get a map for each world with different numbered boards.\nThroughout the course of the game, discover keys to unlock gates to additional pathways and access additional bonus boards called Brain Busters. Your first few keys aren't particularly hard to find, but as you play, they become more scarce.\nAfter I beat the original Plants vs. Zombies, I went back and tried to accomplish all of the achievements for each board. Those are back again in the sequel, but are incorporated into traditional gameplay. So you might play a board once all the way though, then revisit the same board later to try and play only using a certain number of plants \u2014 or without the zombies trampling a flowerbed in the center of the board.\nYou'll earn a star for successful plays that can be used later to take the time machine to the next stage of the game. \nFeel the Power\n\nPlant food and zombie power-ups are also new in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Plant food comes hidden in zombies; you can tell whether a zombie has plant food by its radioactive glow. When you defeat a zombie with plant food, he drops it, allowing you to collect and store it until you need it within the same board.\nAlso use the plant food to supercharge plants. When placed on a fighting plant, it grows stronger and fights harder for a few seconds. The peashooter, for instance, temporarily turns into a machine gun similar to the Gatling Pea from the original. Bloomerang will take down anything in the vertical or horizontal row she is planted in.\nAs you play, you also collect coins, which can be used to buy additional plant food when necessary and purchase special power-ups to use on zombies.\nThe Zombie power-ups come in three flavors: one allows you to pinch off zombie\u2019s heads, one allows you to flick them off the screen and one lets you electrocute particularly troublesome zombies. They're fun, but I didn't use them often during gameplay. In fact, I probably wouldn't have used them at all had I not accidentally purchased them a few times by holding my iPad the wrong way.\nFree to Play\n\nPlants vs. Zombies 2 is free to download and play. Instead of making money from the game's download price, the company is offering new in-app power-ups for purchase within the game.\nBonus plants range from a Jalapeno that can ignite an entire row of zombies for $2.99 to a Snow Pea to $3.99. Upgrades such as additional slots for seeds and plant food also come at a premium, priced at $3.99 and $2.99, respectively.\nThe option to buy upgrades will likely make gameplay a bit easier, but it\u2019s not necessary to play. The beta version of the game doesn't allow users to make in-app purchases but I was still able to access all of the existing stages without purchase.\nThe Lowdown\nPlants vs. Zombies 2 is even better than the original \u2014 and even more addictive.  The additional plants and powers make the game fresh and new for Plants vs. Zombie veterans, and the game is easy enough to understand for those who haven't tried it before. \nPlants vs. Zombies 2 is available now for iOS.\nImage: Plants vs. Zombies 2"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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