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A great, original game for kids.

A great game for kids. The synopsis is that there is a group of hungry zombies slowly marching towards your house and you need to put some plants in their way. Some plants shoot peas at the zombies until their heads and arms fall off, later there will be plants that catapult melons. The currency is "suns" and you need to plant sunflowers to get $uns to buy more plants. I bought this for a bright 5 year old who had already tried the limited "free" web version of the game. The full CD version includes lots of different variations including playing for the zombie team, a zombie aquarium and the chance to grow your own plants. My son is so proud that he'd done enough to get his own tree! He is learning a lot from the game although he does get upset when his sister does a zombie walk. He doesn't understand all the numbers but this game is a great motivation to help him in that area. It's superb and well structured with a good variety of tasks as you "unlock" different areas. Maybe a little scary for a 5 year old but it's less so than, say, Scooby-Doo. Obviously it's also a great chance for adults to learn the best strategy to avoid addiction as it's easier to teach a child to limit computer time before (s)he becomes a teenager!

It didn't work for me

It looked like a good product. I wanted a bit more than the defaults offered by the ISP. Unfortunately all this product gave me was a message asking to be restarted. I restarted many, many times without getting past this message. I ended up returning the item to the supplier for a refund.