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Plants vs. Zombies is a video game franchise by PopCap Games. The game centers around an army of anthropomorphic plants who fight against zombie invasions, a plot that started with the 2009 game of the same name. Since then the plot's expanded across time and the world, with a wide assortment of sequels and spinoff games detailed below.

Plants vs. Zombies and related media include:

Video games (main series)
  • Plants vs. Zombies (2009)
  • Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (2013)
  • Plants vs. Zombies 3: Welcome to Zomburbia (2019) — Another free-to-play mobile title in the series. It was launched in a pre-alpha state for Android in July 2019 and soft launched in March 2020 in selected territories. Now with 3D graphics and some new features, such as the ability to connect with friends to share items and the new "Tacobility" feature. The player has to climb the zombie-filled Devour Tower while also driving back the other zombies at various locations. In November 2020, the game was withdrawn from the market indefinitely for the purpose of "making bigger changes". It doesn't have an official return date in the US. It returned in 2021 in certain countries (such as Australia) with a more cartoony art style, a smaller amount of plants and zombies and an odd lack of Plant Food and Tacobility.

Video games (spin-offs)

Tabletop games

  • Risk: Plants vs. Zombies (2013) — A two-player only version of Risk with three play modes: mission objectives, tower defense, and total domination.

Comic booksA Comic-Book Adaptation by Dark Horse Comics which has Crazy Dave and two new human Kid Heroes, his niece Patrice Blazing and her friend Nate Timely, pitting in regular plants-vs-zombies action.

  • Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon (2013)
  • Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse (2014)
  • Plants Vs. Zombies (2015-)
  • Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (2015)
    • Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (2018-2019)

ManhuasLicensed by PopCap Shanghai, a series of manhuas were published in Southeast Asia, available in English through a Malaysian distributor. Edutainment-oriented with the occasional Very Special Episode, they focus more on the plants' and zombies' own society referenced in the Almanac, as well as new adventures for the characters introduced in Heroes. Though publicly available, information about the series in circulation is scarce outside the regions they were published in.

Currently, 21 serializations exist, containing anywhere between three and over 30 volumes each.

Literature

  • Plants vs. Zombies: Brains and the Beanstalk (2013) — A comedic retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • Plants vs. Zombies: The Three Little Pigs Fight Back (2013) — A comedic retelling of The Three Little Pigs.
  • Plants vs. Zombies: Plant Your Path (2013)
  • Plants vs. Zombies: Brain Food (2013) — An activity book.

Crossovers

  • The Peacebloom VS. Ghouls mini-game in World of Warcraft is based on PvZ, and completing all of its stages earns you a Sunflower as a non-combat pet that follows you around.
  • The series has also made its way into The Sims 3, in which pre-ordering The Sims 3: Supernatural (which has zombies) unlocks Peashooters to fight back as well as zombie-based clothing, such as the cone hat. The Sims 3 store also released a greenhouse with a sunflower that produces sunlight which can be used to make plants grow better.
  • They costarred with Angry Birds and Scrat from Ice Age in a Edutainment Game to teach programming here.
  • The Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 also crossed with its version of Subway Surfers. The tower defense game has a limited Secret Realm about the latter, with the other received skins for characters based on the character of the other game.

 
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