{"id":10637,"date":"2010-02-17T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/zombies-are-the-in-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:16:11","slug":"zombies-are-the-in-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/zombies-are-the-in-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies are the in-thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that&#8217;s been true for a while, but with PopCap&#8217;s release of last year&#8217;s Plants Vs Zombies for iPhone, zombies are once again becoming difficult to avoid!<\/p>\n<p>If you feel like getting down with the undead, but find games like <strong>Left 4 Dead<\/strong> too gruesome, here are my top three brain-eating alternatives:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/02\/zombie2.png\" align=\"middle\" height=\"229\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>1: Plants VS Zombies<\/strong>. If you haven&#8217;t played this, download the demo, now <a href=\"http:\/\/plants-versus-zombies.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>available for PC<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/plants-vs-zombies.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>Mac<\/strong><\/a>! Zombies and gardening combine to make incredibly addictive gameplay. It&#8217;s part of the &#8216;tower defense&#8217; genre, but don&#8217;t let that put you off as it&#8217;s an almost perfect game. Can you afford to miss a zombie Michael Jackson?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/02\/zombie3.png\" align=\"middle\" height=\"230\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2: Attack of the Paper Zombies !!!<\/strong> This free indie game for Windows is a great mix of real-time strategy and the undead, although in this case, the lifeless hordes are also aliens! The pencil and paper graphical style is probably unique for a zombie game too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebird.com\/blog\/?p=353\"><strong>Download it here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/02\/zombie1.png\" align=\"middle\" height=\"230\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3: Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead.<\/strong> You may remember that re-imagining things can be a terrible disaster &#8211; Planet of the Apes, for example. However, Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead re-imagines Valve&#8217;s fantastic cooperative shooter as a <strong>Nintendo Entertainment System<\/strong> game from 1986. It feels like the real deal, too. I think the original&#8217;s more exciting, but this is still a cool game. No Nintendo required, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/pixel-force-left-4-dead.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>download and play it in Windows<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, that&#8217;s been true for a while, but with PopCap&#8217;s release of last year&#8217;s Plants Vs Zombies for iPhone, zombies are once again becoming difficult to avoid! If you feel like getting down with the undead, but find games like Left 4 Dead too gruesome, here are my top three brain-eating alternatives: 1: Plants VS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/zombies-are-the-in-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zombies are the in-thing!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335115,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions\/335115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}