So my little nephew likes to play video games, but he is only 5 years old and can’t really handle most of the good video games that I like to play. He can barely handle the controller or make decisions quick enough to survive any levels of the games like Call of Duty or Drakes Landing. We’ve got a Playstation 3 and a whole collection of games, but the funny thing is that he likes a game that I downloaded onto my PC.
Somehow I stumbled onto a game called Plants vs Zombies and my nephew really likes this game. It has different types of mini-games and puzzles within the main game, and you can play it over and over again without advancing to a harder level if you want to stay on the easy ones.
The main idea is that you get a large grid of squares that will hold a plant that fights zombies. The zombies come staggering from the right, across the rows, trying to get into your house and eat your brains. You defend your house by planting the right plants in the way of the zombies. If you mess up, the zombie gets in your house and that level is over. You have to successfully defend your house at each level or replay the level until you succeed.
As you advance to the harder levels, you are given more plants to work with, and you have different types of plants for daylight fighting, night time fighting, and other scenarios. I like this game, too. And my nephew likes to watch me play the harder levels that he can’t handle yet. He coaches and criticizes all my plays – funny as hell.
