Plants vs. zombies (series)

Gameplay

Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a free-to-play game, unlike its predecessor, supporting in-app purchasing of coins in order to utilize certain power up abilities: Plant Food, a new power-up, allows plants to power up for varying amounts of time. Each plant has its own ability when given Plant Food. Players can complete the whole game without purchasing these abilities, some of which can be earned throughout the game instead of being purchased. Additionally, users can level up their plants using Seed Packets (found in-game or bought with real money) to allow them to permanently enhance their abilities.

Players can start an optional tutorial which takes place in front of the player’s house. Afterward, the player travels to Ancient Egypt and can win in-game World Keys by completing Day 6 to unlock a series of additional period settings («worlds»); this required a certain number of stars in earlier updates. As players go through levels, they unlock new plants each with advantages and unique boosts.

Trivia

• Nate and Patrice make their second appearance in this book.
• A Stone Age and a Disco world is seen in the book series.
• The cover features these following characters:
  • Plants: Peashooter, Repeater, Pea Pod, Bloomerang, Twin Sunflower, Bonk Choy, Split Pea, Tall-nut, Blover, Snapdragon, Magnet-shroom, and Jalapeno.
  • Zombies: Pirate Zombie, Cowboy Zombie, Imp Mummy, Seagull Zombie, Ra Zombie (defeated), and Zombot Plank Walker (silhouette)
  • Others: Crazy Dave, Penny, Nate, and Patrice
• One of the pages in the book features a Snow Repeater.
• Timepocalypse is a portmanteau of «time» and «apocalypse.»
• This book shows the full body of Potato Mine on one of the pages.
• It makes a cameo in the Z7-Mech trailer located on a desk.
• The zombies and Crazy Dave this time, travels back through time with a different reason.
• In the Stone Age, Nate and Patrice did not meet the primitive plants from Jurassic Marsh, but they meet giant plants from the original Plants vs. Zombies, such as Giant Sunflower, Giant Peashooter, Giant Wall-nut, Giant Chomper, and Giant Cactus.
• When Zomboss is defeated, Patrice punches him in the stomach, causing him to fall over and groan «Ooo…my pancreas…». This is a reference to the original Plants vs. Zombies, where Crazy Dave lists one of Zomboss’ possible weaknesses as his pancreas.

Reception

The game received mostly positive feedback from users and critics, despite the use of in-app purchases. Critics mostly praised the gameplay and graphics. It has a Metacritic score of 86/100 based on 36 reviews. PopCap Games announced at Gamescom on August 20, 2013, that the game had been downloaded 15 million times, making it the most successful EA mobile game launch.

Ten days later it was announced that the game had been downloaded 25 million times, exceeding the lifetime downloads of the first game. Apple chose Plants vs. Zombies 2 as a runner-up for 2013 iPhone game of the year. However, many people complain about the several microtransactions the game has, as well as having strange difficulty spikes throughout the adventure mode.

Советы

• Шипокамень крайне эффективен против Зомби на катапульте, Зомбони, Зомби-пианиста, так как при наезде на него они мгновенно уничтожаются, а у Зомби с бочкой разрушается бочка.
• Для задержки таких прочных зомби, как Зомби-стенорех, Зомби с сетчатой дверью или Высокий зомби-орех, можно использовать его в комбинацию со Стенорехом или Высоким орехом.
• Его ещё можно использовать против зомби с защитой от прямых атак, таких как Зомби с лестницей, Зомби-землекоп или Зомби с воскресным изданием, против групповых зомби, как Верблюд-зомби, Бобслейная зомби-команда, Зомби-курица или Ледяная ласка, а также для задержки Гаргантюа, так как для уничтожения Шипокамня ему необходимо три раза ударить растение, причём зомби в это время можно замедлять или парализовать маслом или заморозкой.

History

In 2010, there was an unlicensed and somewhat limited clone of Plants vs. Zombies available, called «Plant Guard,» however it was soon removed from Android Market. On May 31, 2011, the official version was released exclusively on the Amazon App Store, and on December 14 the same year it was released on Android Market. Feature-wise, it was the same as the Nook and Kindle Fire Editions.

Note: It is incompatible with Androids lower than 2.1 (Eclair Operation System), Motorola DROID series devices, and with Androids of a screen smaller than 3 inches (7.6 centimeters).
There’s a special version of Plants vs. Zombies for the Kindle Fire. The link on the Amazon Appstore is here.

On June 20, 2013, an update was released adding 17 mini-games, I, Zombie, Vasebreaker, Last Stand, Survival, Zen Garden, and new Achievements to the Android and Kindle Fire editions. The Amazon App Store, however, has only recently given the Kindle Fire edition its update.

On October 31st, 2014, the game was available for free on Kindle Fire devices for a day, in order to celebrate Halloween. The offer ended on November 1st, 2014.

iTunes App Store/Google Play Store description

Description

«As beautifully presented as it is absorbing to play: 8.7 out of 10.» – ign.com

Play the award-winning hit action-strategy adventure where you meet, greet, and defeat legions of hilarious zombies from the dawn of time, to the end of days. Amass an army of amazing plants, supercharge them with Plant Food, and devise the ultimate plan to protect your brain.

100 Million Downloads – This app has received more than 100 million overall downloads.

Winner: Best Mobile Game at E3 – Game Informer
Winner: Best Mobile Game 2013 – Mashable
Winner: Game of the Year 2013 – Slide to Play

Game Features

DISCOVER HUNDREDS OF PLANTS AND ZOMBIES
Collect your favorite lawn legends, like Sunflower and Peashooter, along with hundreds of other horticultural hotshots, including creative bloomers like Lava Guava and Laser Bean. Go toe-to-missing-toe with a massive array of zombies at every turn, like Jetpack Zombie and Mermaid Imp – you’ll even have to protect your brain from rampant Zombie Chickens!

GROW POWERFUL PLANTS
Earn Seed Packets as you play and use them to fuel your plants like never before. Power up attacks, double-down defenses, speed up planting time, and even gain entirely new abilities. Boost your plants to ensure those zombies are lawn-gone!

JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME
Battle across 11 crazy worlds, from Ancient Egypt to the Far Future, and beyond. With more than 300 levels, ultra-challenging endless zones, fun mini-games, and daily Piñata Party events, there’s always a new challenge to complete. Plus, ready your best defenses – Dr. Zomboss is waiting to take you on at the end of every world!

EXPLORE MORE WITH THE TRAVEL LOG
Stumped about where to go next? Consult your Travel Log to embark on exciting Quests created just for you. Complete Scheduled Quests before time runs out, or take on a series of Epic Quests and earn special rewards.

What’s New (v9.3.1)

Dive into 2021’s penultimate month with another brilliant PvZ2 update, which includes:

• New Plant: Iceweed!
• A classic Pinata Party event, Food Fight!
• More Pinata, Icon and Calendar improvements!
• New Limited Time Events!
• Feature unlock adjustments!
• New loading screen art!

Currency

This game had four different currencies:

1. Coins. These were periodically generated by town buildings. Planting a plant in the planter boxes in town costed coins. More advanced plants costed more coins.
2. 
   Zombucks. These were dropped by zombies, and were given to the player as rewards for completing quests and beating stages in road-trip mode. Zombucks were used in town mode to buy and upgrade buildings, place decorations, clean up the town and summon zombies.
3. 
   Gems. These were purchased with real money, and could be converted to the various resources at a predetermined ratio. Gems were also used to expedite wait times for constructing or upgrading buildings.
4. 
   Sun. These dropped in battles against zombies from the sky, and are periodically created by Sunflowers. Sun did not carry over across battles.

List of zombies (Pre-2021)

Devour Tower zombies

Specific stats (Armor reduction, alternate attacks, etc.) are listed on each zombie’s page. All zombies’ stats are from level 1. In their row there is also labeled what their lowest possible level in Devour Tower is, however they still can come in lower levels in Breakout levels and Arena levels. Each level a zombie gains, his health and attack damage will be multiplied by 1.3.

Your House

This is the only type of zombie that appears over time, rather than all at once.

Taco Park

Green Screens Theater

Dave’s Workshop

Jubilee Nightclub

Sunnyfield Farm

Known Zombies

• Imp
• Browncoat Zombie
• Jetpack Zombie with a plant in its hands
• Conehead Zombie
• Gargantuar
• Hot Dog Imp
• Firewall Zombie
• Goalie Zombie

Cameos

• Poncho Zombie, seen in title screen
• Rabbit Zombie, seen in title screen
• Stone Carrier Gargantuar, seen in title screen
• Mummy Zombie, seen in title screen
• Mecha-Football Zombie, seen in title screen
• Future Flag Zombie, seen in title screen
• Pirate Zombie, seen in title screen
• Flying Imp Zombie, seen in title screen
• Disco Jetpack Zombie, seen in title screen
• Troglobite, seen in title screen
• Zombot Plank Walker, seen in title screen
• Spotlight Zombie, seen in daily rewards screen
• Rainbow Glitz, seen in fortune wheel screen
• Immorticia, seen in fortune wheel screen
• Dr. Zomboss, seen on the title screen and in fortune wheel screen

Spawnable zombies

There are 17 Spawnable Zombies that can be used. To summon a zombie, look for grave dirt piles. The spawnable zombies are used as assistance to fight against the plants in Gardens & Graveyards. Each are considered consumables that once used can not be picked back up. Spawnable Zombies can only be obtained by purchasing sticker packs with in-game coins.

A * Indicates that this zombies can only be obtained on its holiday but can be spawned anytime in the year.

Pogo Challenges

On the Pogo page for the game, there are 8 different challenges. All of them require to reach a obtain or reach a certain amount of something, such as sun collected or zombies defeated. Each challenge resets after a week and your progress towards the challenges will reset, letting you complete the challenge again that week. Completing each challenge for the first time will reward you with a badge on your Pogo profile and a chat icon. A Club Pogo membership is required to unlock the challenges.

Trivia

• Despite not appearing in the original Plants vs. Zombies or the web version, Bonk Choy appears in the badges of Plants Rule and Brains vs. Frond.
• Spike, Pogo’s mascot, appears in the To Arms badge.

Projectiles

To fight zombies, certain projectiles are fired from plants. For example, peas are fired from peashooting plants, such as Peashooters, Snow Peas and Threepeaters. Spikes are fired from Cattails and Cacti. Spores are shot from Puff-shrooms, Scaredy-shrooms, and Sea-shrooms. Fumes are shot from Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms. Lobbed-shot plants each fire their own specific kind of projectile such cabbage or melons. Stars are fired from Starfruits. Lobbed-shot plants such as Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, vs, and Winter Melons can also shoot over shields and hit Snorkel Zombies while they are underwater, although they cannot hit Balloon Zombies, despite the fact that they shoot high up, and corn cobs are launched from Cob Cannons.

Note: The table below is about the damage of the projectiles. The numbers are the amount of peas equivalent in damage to the projectile, and a normal Zombie takes ten peas to kill.

Pea

Frozen pea

Spore/Fume

Fire pea

Spike

Star

Cabbage

Kernel

Butter

Melon

Frozen melon

Corn cob

Plants

A Green +3 tier, Level III, 3-star, Level 44 Pea Pod in Adventure Mode

Main article: Plants (PvZO)

Main article: Plants (PvZO Adventure)

Returning Plants

• Split Pea (Adventure Mode only)
• Chili Bean (Adventure Mode only)
• Lightning Reed (Adventure Mode only)
• Pea Pod (Adventure Mode only)
• Melon-pult (Adventure Mode only)
• Starfruit (Adventure Mode only)
• Chomper (Adventure Mode only)
• Cattail (Adventure Mode only)
• Zorrose (Adventure Mode only)
• Fire Peashooter (Adventure Mode only)
• Oak Archer (Adventure Mode only)
• Acidic Citrus (Adventure Mode only)
• Ghost Pepper (Adventure Mode only)
• Guacodile (Adventure Mode only)
• Hurrikale (Adventure Mode only)
• Plantern (Adventure Mode only)
• Radish (Adventure Mode only)

Achievements

There are a total of 48 achievements for the Android version.

• Home Lawn Security — Complete Adventure Mode for the first time.
• SPUDOW! — Blow up a zombie using a Potato Mine.
• Explodonator — Blow up 10 zombies with a single Cherry Bomb.
• Morticulturalist — Collect all 49 Plants (including plants from Crazy Dave).
• Don’t Pea in the Pool — Complete a daytime pool level without using Peashooters of any kind.
• Roll Some Heads — Bowl over 5 zombies with a single Wall-nut.
• Grounded — Defeat a normal Roof level without using any catapult plants.
• Zombologist — Discover the Zombie Yeti.
• Penny Pincher — Pick up 30 coins on a single level without letting any disappear.
• Sunny Days — Accumulate 8000 Sun during a single level.
• Popcorn Party — Defeat two Gargantuars with Corn Cob Missiles at a single level.
• Good Morning — Complete a Daytime Level by planting only Mushrooms and Coffee Beans.
• No Fungus Among Us — Complete a Nighttime Level without planting any mushrooms.
• Last Mown Standing — Defeat the last zombie in a level with a Lawn Mower.
• 20 Below Zero — Immobilize 20 full-sized zombies with a single Ice-shroom.
• Flower Power — Keep 10 Twin Sunflowers alive on a single level.
• Pyromaniac — Complete a level using only Explosive Plants to kill zombies.
• Lawn Mower Man — Kill 10 zombies with a single Lawn Mower.
• Chill Out — Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, you’ve one level to destroy 3 Bobsleds, it’s Jalapeno time!
• Defcorn 5 — Build 5 Cob Cannons at a single level.
• Monster Mash — Crush 5 zombies with a single Squash.

• The Achievements icon on iPhone and android.

  Blind Faith — Complete an extremely foggy level without using Planterns or Blovers.

• Pool’s Closed — Complete a Pool level without using water plants.
• Melon-y Lane — Plant a Winter Melon in every lane.
• Second Life — Complete Adventure Mode a second time.
• Beyond the Grave — Beat all of the Mini-games.
• Lucky Spin — Get 3 Diamonds in Slot Machine.
• Chilli Free — Complete Column Like You See ‘Em without using Jalapenos.
• Enlightened — Collect all Zen Garden, Mushroom Garden, and Aquarium Garden plants.
• Diamond Beghouler — Upgrade all your plants in Beghouled.
• Greenfingers — Grow 10 Zen Garden plants to full size.
• Wall-Not Attack — Complete ZomBotany without using Wall-nuts, Tall-nuts, or Pumpkins.
• Peking Express — How fast can you dig your way to China?
• Shooting Star — Complete Seeing Stars before the first Flag Zombie arrives.
• Sproing! Sproing! — Complete Pogo Party without using Tall-nuts or Magnet-shrooms.
• Better Off Dead — Get to a streak of 10 in I, Zombie Endless.
• Sol Invictus — Complete Last Stand with 2000 or more Sun remaining.
• I, Win — Win all 9 I, Zombie Trophies.
• Where the Sun Don’t Shine — Complete the first «I, Zombie» level with 1000 Sun remaining.
• Undead Space — Grow your pile of zombies into outer space.
• Disco is Undead — Hypnotize a Dancer Zombie. (formerly Thrilling the Zombies)
• China Shop — Get to a streak of 15 in Vasebreaker Endless.
• Smashing! — Win all 9 Vasebreaker Trophies.
• Gotcha! — Find a Gargantuar in its vase using a Plantern in a game of Vasebreaker.
• Still Standing — Complete all 5 Last Stand Levels.
• The Stuff of Legends — Complete 15 flags in the Last Stand: Endless.
• Hammer Time! — Kill a total of 10 Gargantuars using Mallet in the Last Stand: Endless.
• Alive and Planting — Survive 40 waves of pure zombie ferocity.

Type of plants

Plants received when playing Adventure Mode

At the end of each level of the player’s first playthrough of Adventure Mode, a new seed packet of a plant made by the Bloom & Doom Seed Company is received from the last zombie to get destroyed. There is a theory that Crazy Dave throws them, according to a Sneak Peek to the Xbox 360 Version. Once the Suburban Almanac is acquired in level 2-4, a sometimes humorous quote of each plant can be read as well as a summary and helpful facts about it.

Plants received at Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies

Once Crazy Dave’s car key is found, Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies is unlocked and more plants can be purchased with Money. These plants are called upgrade plants. They are the Gatling Pea ($5000), Twin Sunflower ($5000), Gloom-shroom ($7500), Cattail ($10,000), Winter Melon ($10,000), Gold Magnet ($3000), Spikerock ($7500), and Cob Cannon ($20,000). Imitater ($30,000) is also available here but requires completing Adventure Mode before he can be bought. Other upgrade plants will arrive after receiving certain objects, such as Gloom-shroom and Cattail being available to buy when you receive the taco.

Sun producing plants

Sun producing plants are vital for regular levels in order to plant. Each plant has a certain amount of sun that is needed in order for it to be planted. Also, the seed packets for plants have a recharge time; some of which are longer than others. In Survival: Endless, upgrade plants cost 50 more sun to plant for each of that particular plant on the lawn at the time of planting. Below are the costs of sun producing plants and how much sun is produced.

Money producing plants

The Marigold is the only money producing plant, but in the Zen Garden, all plants will drop gold coins when fertilized, happy and also drop diamonds when fully grown. Feeding chocolate to plants in the Zen Garden will produce coins faster. Gold Magnets and Stinky the Snail aid in money production as well.

Trivia

• The zombies in the online version will usually have no bone seen upon losing their arm.
• For the Squash, Wall-nut and Cherry Bomb, if the player did not select them in consecutive waves of Survival: Endless, they have to recharge even if it is not the first wave (unlike all other versions of Survival).
• The zombies will not attempt to eat the instant kills (except Chomper), similarly to Plants vs. Zombies 2.
• There are two glitches with the Newspaper Zombie

  Another glitch with Newspaper Zombie is if he loses his newspaper while eating a plant, he will be walking in place eating the plant.

  : when falling on death, a bone in his arm will appear, and his eyes will flash angrily for no reason.

• Unlike the full version of Plants vs. Zombies, the Survival Mode and the Mini-games mode are on opposite buttons, since the Mini-games mode is not available on the web version.
• If the player beats the game, the plants will reset, so they cannot use mushrooms during the day.
• Unlike the full version, instead of the Potato Mine, the player will get the Squash in the Adventure Mode’s Day levels.
• One can see the silhouettes of the Ice-shroom, Doom-shroom, Lily Pad, Potato Mine, Threepeater, Tangle Kelp, Jalapeno, Spikeweed, Torchwood, Tall-nut, Cactus and Blover when the player has unlocked Fume-shroom.
• The Snow Pea makes a different sound effect when it shoots frozen peas on the online version than it normally does (a «jingle bell»-like sound effect).
• The seed packets are much bigger in this version.
• There is no shadow below the plants or zombies in this version.
• If the player puts their mouse over the Giga-Football Zombie, it will say «Football Zombie». This is because there is no regular Football Zombie in this version.
• Level 1-5 is the only mini-game level.
• Level 1-10 is the only conveyor belt level.
• When the player leaves an Adventure Mode, Survival Mode, or Puzzle Mode level, the progress will be lost instead of saved. 
• If you keep doing the beat level command and do not pick up any seed packets, then in the next levels, you will be stuck without plants on the seed selection screen.
• There’s a seed selection screen glitch that allows you to select a different amount of plants than just 6, and it is even possible to select none. However, it is not possible to select more than 6. You need to select 6 random plants (Do not pick Sunflower or Sun-shroom) and the game will show up the «No Sunflower» warning. You need to click the plants in the bar (without closing the warning) to remove or select them. You can still click «Continue anyway» to start the game. This only works in Adventure Mode.
• This is the only known version of a PvZ game where the game provider explicitly allows hacking.
• If one were to spawn additional zombies in Level 1-5 (The Wall-nut Bowling game), then the following zombies would act like so:
  • Basic Zombies, Flag Zombies, and Conehead Zombies are already in this level.
  • Buckethead Zombies will take 3 Wall-nuts like usual, but on the first hit, the zombie will be wearing both the undamaged and damaged buckets.
  • Pole Vaulting Zombies will jump over a Wall-nut first, and then take a hit, like normal.
  • Newspaper Zombies will die instantly instead of getting angry.
  • Screen Door Zombies will also die instantly. The screen door is completely ignored even if you hit it directly.
  • Giga-Football Zombies will take 5 Wall-nuts or 2 Explode-o-nuts to beat because of their high toughness.

Glitches (Archived)

• After the first server update, the level progress bar was unintentionally hidden under the score bar. This was fixed in the 15.1 update.
• During the Graveyard Trick ‘Grave Danger!’, a gravestone can rise on a tile occupied by a plant. The plant will function normally, but Plant Food and Tacos can’t be used on it until the gravestone has been destroyed.
• Under unknown conditions, the game can softlock at the end of the stage. This can be fixed either by digging up plants or force closing the game.
• When a player tried to donate seeds in their club, a pop-up that said ‘Donation has expired’ would cancel the action and temporally remove the seed request from the player’s list. This glitch was fixed in the second server update.
• When a Crossing Guard throws a road cone onto a male Browncoat Zombie’s head, the male zombie has a chance to become a female.
• Sometimes, after a battle when the lawn is full, you can still hear the plants making sounds.

Общее

Представляет из себя дицентру великолепную, которая имеет двусторонне-симметричный, сердцевидный цветок, вокруг которого расположены листья, разделённые на небольшие доли с зубчатым краем. Внешние лепестки цветка бордового, а внутренние — светло-розового цвета. Также, она имеет длинный зелёный отросток, от которого отходят ещё два цветка, один из который ещё не раскрыт. Второй цветок, которым оканчивается отросток, она кидает в зомби, нанося 40 единиц урона (2 горошины). После этого от них будут исходить сердечки. Урон от данного снаряда с каждым разом увеличивается на 10 единиц (0.5 горошин) и может возрастать до пяти раз, повышая урон от данного растения до 90 единиц (4.5 горошин). При подкормке растение кидает крупные цветки во всех зомби и роботов на экране (в китайской версии – только в пятерых из них), нанося 200 единиц урона (10 горошин). При этом урон увеличивается на 20 единиц (1 горошину), если зомби был до этого поражён данным растением. Данный эффект от подкормки может возрастать до пяти раз и нанести в сумме 300 единиц урона (15 горошин).

*При атаке одной и той же цели урон Цветущего Сердца дополнительно увеличивается на 10 единиц (0.5 горошин). Эффект суммируется до 5 раз.

Earlier gameplay

As seen in earlier screenshots of the game, Snow Pea was going to cost 200 sun, Tangle Kelp was going to be a ground plant, and plants were given via conveyor style, but the player still needed sun to plant them. Possibly, players were going to select the rating of getting plants on the conveyor belt.

Also, in October 2007, when the name was «Lawn of the Dead», the progress bar was shorter, the Sunflower costed 100 sun, the sun counter was near the right side of the screen, the lawn was zoomed in more, the lawnmowers were closer to the grass, and Potato Mine cost 50 sun instead of 25 sun and was bigger, as wide as a grass tile. Like the Snow Pea, Chomper originally costed 200 sun, and in an ice world (most likely Ice Level), the Wall-nut was seen costing 75 sun.

Gallery

The player was going to be able to select the rarity of plants

The rarity choosing background, likely a placeholder

Screenshot featuring a mystery seed packet that costed 300 sun

Tangle Kelp-like plant in another old screenshot

Dog Zombie and its walker that got cut from the game

An image from George Fan’s twitter showing which prototype zombies from said screenshot (and a few previously not shown ones) became the zombies in the finished game.

The earliest known screenshot: what seem to be early Cabbage-pults attacking alien-like enemies.

An image from George Fan’s twitter showing old versions of plants.

Old backyard design. There is no pool, but rather higher ground (not a fence) that blocks projectiles.

A VERY old Catapult-like plant. Ripped from Iceberg Lettuce files.