Plants vs. Zombies 2009

Is it still worth playing?

PopCap Games' 2009 tower defense game, first released for Windows and macOS and later ported to consoles, handhelds and mobile devices. You play a homeowner in a zombie apocalypse, defending your house against a horde that approaches along several parallel lanes. The lawn is a grid with your house on the left. You place plants on its squares using a resource called sun, collected from the lawn or from plants such as Sunflowers. Each plant has its own defense, such as shooting, exploding or blocking. Zombies have behaviors and weaknesses of their own: a Balloon Zombie floats over plants until a Cactus pops it. They come in waves that grow denser, with a large flagged wave at the end of every level, and if one reaches the house in any lane you lose the level. You still have to choose which plant goes in which lane, since zombies have different weaknesses.