Who would have thought that garden plants could become stars of their own franchise? Then again, you could add zombies to anything - a Dail debate, perhaps - and they'd be great value. Plants vs. Zombies, which started as a mobile wave-based defense title, in which dandelions fought off armies of grumbling ghouls, is now a green-fingered Call of Duty.
It's a greengrocer's nightmare. Oranges fire lasers, rose bushes cast magic spells. The zombies - flame-throwing undead pirates, etc - would make The Walking Dead crawl back to their graves.

The choices are endless in this interactive asylum. Take quests to level up to your character, or visit the multiplayer portal where you can weed the garden of other online players. There's a host of of modes - Team Deathmatch and a strange bomb-mode involving explosive garden gnomes among them. Multiplayer mode is blooming good, but repetitive single player tasks gave me greenhouse gas.