The Nuts: Interesting plants and zombie characters, lovely graphics and audio, great character designs and animations, good attempt at offering variety with the limited story maps, fun for all ages and fantastic re-play value through additional game modes.
The Nutty: Small map sizes can feel restricting, campaign starts off very slowly and is fairly easy for too long, touch devices can suffer from from performance issues and some missed opportunities for other plant species [also has kept me waiting too long for a sequel :P ]
A few years ago I used to go to Starbucks once a week with a couple friends where we'd chill while shooting the breeze and as is pretty common place these days, we would often end up playing games on an "i" device. It was on one of these days when I was first introduced to Popcaps Plants vs. Zombies and almost immediately I fell in love with the title. It's a basic Real Time Strategy and Tower Defence game, you harvest a certain resource (in this case sunlight) and you use it to build/upgrade your Plants (these act as defences in your garden) to fight off the enemy, hoards of brain hungry Zombies. The overall concept itself is pretty simple, you just need to survive a certain number of waves to end the level but everything from the way the game is designed to the sounds, graphics and character animation are beautifully put together. You play as a house owner who is under siege by Zombies that wish to feast on your grey matter, your goal is to protect the property from the incoming attackers, which you'll do with the advice and guidance from one Crazy Dave. This funny and aptly named, eccentric mentor/supplier/fellow survivor, will teach you everything you need to know, to stop the Zombies from getting their feed. If the Zombies breach your defences and reach the front door, it's chow time for them and game over for you. So how do you stop this from happening I hear you ask? By selecting seeds before a level starts and then sowing/growing them during the game, obviously. I know it's probably not your first choice of weapon against the un-dead but you certainly can't deny the results.