After you use a boosted plant, it disappears from your inventory so the collection element of the PvZ 1 Zen Garden isn't there. The boost bonus lasts for the entire level so with each new Cabbage-pult you plant, for example, it'll launch a single barrage of cabbage attacks on the whole screen. Boosted plants immediately perform their super move upon planting so they can really save your bacon in a tight spot. A random plant type appears, and after some watering and waiting (ranging from 30 minutes to several hours) you earn some coins and unlock a boosted version of said plant for the next time you use it in a level. You earn potted mystery plants in normal gameplay and plant them in the garden. Return of the Zen Garden (March 27, 2014)Īlthough it doesn't work the same way as the Zen Garden in the first PvZ, the new one is useful nonetheless. You simply beat the eighth level in any world (themed around Gargantuar zombies) and you'll get a special key that allows you to skip ahead to the next time period. There are no more random key drops to grind for, and skipping ahead to a new world is easier than ever. You beat one level and move on to the next, collecting upgrades and new plants along the way.
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It offers a tricky mix of new offense, potential self sabotage, and patience waiting for the essential sun currency.Īn older update boldly blew up all of the annoying parts described in the beginning of this story and replaced them with a simple, linear overworld progression system. If you wait until they hit the ground, the pickups turn to normal yellow sun that you can use to buy more plants. If you tap them before they hit the ground, they'll explode and damage enemies and friends alike. These purple suns drop randomly from the sky. New Sun Bombs appear on a few levels here and there. If you plan well, this can wipe out hordes of zombies in a split second. If you give one of them some plant food to unleash a super move, the other two will also perform supers without any additional plant food cost. Say you place three plants on three matching tiles. These are marked with symbols like squares and triangles. The signature element of Far Future is the new Power Tiles. While it's weaker overall, it can regenerate over time if you keep the zombies away. Citron, a big orange, charges up slowly and unleashes a large plasma blast that heavily damages a single target. E.M.Peach is a one-shot attack that temporarily disables the zombies' powerful machines. Infi-nut is a blue holographic version of the traditional Wall-nut. The Laser Bean's attack hits all the enemies in a single row at once, though there's a slight pause between shots. To combat these new threats, you get a new crop of plants. The obnoxious Disco-tron 3000 summons a swarm of Disco Jetpack Zombies. The Shield Zombie operates a force field-generating vehicle that protects itself as well as those in other rows. Mecha-Football Zombie rides in a big helmet and pushes back your carefully arranged plants instead of eating them. Naturally, the zombies are dressed in space suits and now have several high-tech machines at their disposal. Now we finally have a new bounty of content set in a futuristic land. These were great at launch, but we've been staring at a black silhouette marked "coming soon" in the fourth world slot for months. PvZ 2 introduced worlds based on ancient Egypt, pirate times, and the Wild West. The New Far Future World (March 27, 2014)
Now that a long-promised new world has finally released, these are the reasons you should give the game another shot if you were turned off by the launch edition. Thankfully, developer Popcap has been hard at work all this time, constantly improving the experience. And if you wanted to unlock certain upgrades and bonus levels, you had to grind and hope to get rare key drops. To move on to a new world you had to replay old levels to earn the large amount of stars necessary to pass through a time gate. The problem involved the progression system. The overworld was mapped out like Super Mario World, with several branching paths. However, certain elements dragged the experience down. Fans experienced inventive new worlds, powerful new plants, and pesky new zombies. Zombies 2: It's About Time launched worldwide last August on iOS (and a couple months later on Android), there was a lot to love.