Articulture and the undead battle it out in your pocket with ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ on the DS (DS)

Mastertronic Group, the UK’s leading independent publisher of computer and video games, today announced that PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies™ is to be released in the UK on the Nintendo DS®. This runaway success from PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual video games has been successfully released across multiple platforms and will be available to buy for the Nintendo DS 6th May 2011.

Mastertronic’s Product Director Neil McKenna said: “Plants vs. Zombies is the fastest-selling iPhone/iPod strategy game of all time, selling 300,000 copies in the first nine days it was available on the App store. With such a proven track record on a portable platform, we’re delighted to bring Plants vs. Zombies to the world’s most popular handheld gaming device, the Nintendo DS. “

In Plants vs. Zombies a mob of brain-hungry zombies is unleashed on your home and your only defence is an arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to destroy zombies before they reach your front door.

With five different game modes to choose from, there’s hours of entertaining gameplay available. A cross-platform hit, the Xbox Live version of Plants vs. Zombies™currently has a review average of 89/100 on Metacritic.

Plants vs. Zombies will be released on Nintendo DS in 6th May 2011.