With the eventual release of Plants vs. Zombies for the X-Box 360 next month which will include extra contents, it would be grossly unfair if these additions were not provided in some manner to those who already purchased and played it on the Personal Computer (and now Mac). After all, it was the PC community that gave the game its remarkable success. Now that I have just updated the game with the recently released and free "Game of the Year Edition" patch, I am disappointed to report that the X-Box 360 version will still gain the edge when it comes to the actual content because this patch doesn't include any of the online modes made for the console release.
PvZ already has its own in-game achievement system.
Those who purchased the game on Steam will now get additional achievements to obsess over.
So yeah, the "Zombatar", where you can customize your zombies is cool but it's not as cool as playing with others online. What's worse is the fact that the Michael Jackson zombie is now replaced with a generic boogie woogie zombie due to the pressure from the Jackson estate whose interest is probably dominated by greed than anything else. There is no way that the controls would be as precise using the game controller than the mouse setup or even the touch screen of the iPad version so I surely hope that PopCap Games will release an update again that will feature the online co-op mode for the PC version with the game's arrival on the X-Box 360. To create such a marginal distinction between the two versions brings nothing but total disgrace to this brilliant game so PopCap should think about what they are doing more seriously if they don't want to lose a chunk of their business in the future. They probably want those who have access to the console to buy the game again but they should know that there is nothing worse than a double dipping developer: it's disgusting and it's just plain wrong.
It's just not the same but what can you do.
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