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Archive Spelunker

Archive Spelunker

Chris Livingston

From the archives: This review was originally published in PC Gamer magazine #200 (UK, May 2009). The review appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation.

Like busy little content gardeners, we've been digging through old issues of PC Gamer to find features that never made it onto our website and replanting them here with a little sprucing up. I'm happy we've found a new (s)pot for this review of Plants vs. Zombies written by Tom Francis (now a bigshot developer growing his own games).

I utterly devoured PopCap's unique take on tower defense when it launched in 2009 and I've lost over 200 hours to it, probably most of them tending my Zen Garden.…