This time they’re going portable with an invasion of the Nintendo DS:

PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual video games, today announced the widely anticipated North American release of Plants vs. Zombies™ for the Nintendo DS®. Expertly adapted in the PopCap tradition, the game features all of the engaging gameplay included in the PC edition — Adventure, Survival and Puzzle modes — while adding multiplayer action, plus four all-new, exclusive mini-games and 14 achievements. Available immediately in North America, the game carries an SRP of US$19.95.

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Plants vs. Zombies for the Nintendo DS has been tuned specifically for dual-screen gameplay and features multiplayer action via an ad-hoc wireless network in the game’s Versus mode, where players can go head-to-head against one another as sunflowers, or zombies.

Considering the way that Zombies are depicted in Plants vs. Zombies I’m not sure why anyone would want to play as them.

Lest we forget, this is the way that they think about Zombies at Popcap Games:

You make sensible points, John. I hold no special animosity towards the zombie community, though I accept I have participated in promulgating stereotypes about same. Were I to meet a single zombie who treated me with courtesy and respect rather than with a groping claw-toothed scramble for my skull, I must confess I would be better disposed towards the, as you call them, “Differently Animated.” As it is now, I am likely to seek the sturdiest shovel I may find to plant in my attacker’s melon.

I lay my prejudice bare. I see zombies as a curse and a class of monstrosity, pitiful beings with no desire other than for brains and, perhaps in their best moments, for utter destruction. If these unliving creatures have other purposes, I await evidence of such with great interest.

Yours,

Stephen Notley

Mr. Notley of course is the writer of Plants vs. Zombies so I feel that his position is fairly authoritative as to the game itself.

Given this unfortunate prejudice, I can’t say the ZRC is pleased that Plants vs. Zombies is marching stalwartly onto yet another platform and getting yet another chance to sway impressionable minds to hate with its adorable graphics and cartoon violence.

However, as always, we will be at the ready for dialogue and information, in the hopes of mitigating any damage done to the cause of Zombie Rights.

Tags: Social Justice, Videogames

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