Midnight movie: Plants vs. Zombies, the music video

by Randy Nelson { Apr 2nd 2009 at 12:15AM }

In the battle to determine which is more bizarre -- a game about plants battling zombies or a music video about a game where plants battle zombies -- the latter has prevailed. Ladies and gentlemen, for tonight's bedtime snack we present Plants vs. Zombies: The Music Video, based on PopCap's upcoming (and if you hadn't guessed, totally weird) tower defense game for PC ... Plants vs. Zombies.

What's your favorite part? The zombies with butter on their heads? The zombie dolphins? The whole mad thing? It takes a company like PopCap -- purveyors of unicorn-infused digital crack like Peggle -- to invent something that just has to be an April Fools' joke but, we swear, totally isn't.

Brace yourself, then click through after the break for animated insanity.

Tags: casual, plants-vs-zombies, popcap, tower-defense

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

chrisyz @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:28AM

plants? i thought the natural predator of a zombie was a shotgun..?

ELUNO @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:32AM

The more you know!

CrashSpyro123 @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:32AM

And it's now stuck in my brain.

I'm also hoping for a RB version when this comes out.

redstar918 @ Apr 2nd 2009 5:27PM

If they replaced the weird synth calypso thingie with a guitar lead? I could see it (and would get it ^^)

dark_inchworm (on Steam!) dark inchworm (on XBL!) @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:34AM

Somewhat related: I finally tried Peggle for the first time tonight, in the form of Peggle Extreme. Upon completion, I begged and pleaded for my romantic person thing to buy it.

Oh man.

It is good.

jace toney @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:35AM

Someone doesn't like you asking stupid questions.

http://www.justfreakingoogleit.com

Einhanderkiller @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:55AM

There's a zombie on my lawn

Mavrick593 @ Apr 2nd 2009 12:56AM

that. was. amazing

Griffin83 @ Apr 2nd 2009 1:16AM

Zombie dolphins ... EPIC

Courtney @ Apr 2nd 2009 1:22AM

Holy crap that's awesome! Looks like it's currently only listed for PC and Mac. Wonder if they will be doing a 360 port?

krazyman @ Apr 2nd 2009 1:22AM

what's next robots vs. unicorns?

Always in the mood for a good tower defense game.

victor @ Apr 2nd 2009 1:24AM

My Lawn is Dead!

Anticrawl @ Apr 2nd 2009 2:07AM

I can confirm it's still as good as it was the last couple dozen times I watched it..... We don't want zombies on the lawn.

Erik @ Apr 24th 2009 6:42PM

I'm really glad I'm not the only one that keeps playing it over and over again.
I don't think I've listened to a song this much since the last time I rick rolled myself.

ChronoZaga @ Apr 2nd 2009 3:25AM

I can't stop watching this video. Brilliant!

heyo007 @ Apr 2nd 2009 3:39AM

I will buy the soundtrack of this game...even if this is the only song on it. Seriously.

Mark @ Apr 2nd 2009 11:35PM

You can download the mp3 from PopCap's website:

http://www.popcap.com/games/pvz

The link is down the bottom on the right.

heyo007 @ Apr 2nd 2009 1:13PM

Thanks for that, Mark. I missed that link on the bottom. One internet cupcake goes to you for that.

RiverOtter @ Apr 2nd 2009 5:31AM

They've finally done it. They found a way to make zombies adorable.

Maverick Saturn @ Apr 2nd 2009 5:55AM

I damn well agree, can't be spending time nicely trimming your lawn to have a zombie walk all over it and ruin it and then have the nerve to eat your brains when you complain at them about it.

bnpederson @ Apr 2nd 2009 6:03AM

So it's a tower defense game.

Nox @ Apr 2nd 2009 6:37AM

So Peggle are finally making a tower defense game...

And thus, no one will ever get any work done again.

Ghen @ Apr 2nd 2009 8:40AM

I dunno, I've played tons of tower defense games on kongregate and they were all FREE. They'll have to really change up the formula to keep me from getting bored and it'll have to be insanely epic for me to actually buy it. The thing about peggle, no one has ever done a pachinko based video game AFAIK and certainly not one where you destroy the pegs... Its originality was its popularity.