Plants vs. Zombies has been a huge success since its launch in 2009, in addition to receiving media acclaim, winning the annual download and best casual game awards in 2010 and 2011 respectively, and it was also well received among players, becoming the best-selling game in popCap history, so that EA later bought it for $750 million because of this game.
About this game that has been launched for 13 years and has become a childhood memory of many players, I don't know if you have ever understood the cold knowledge of this game, let's talk about it next.
George Fan, author of Plants vs. Zombies, is a former game programmer and a fan of Blizzard, and the game was inspired by the card swap Magic Society and a tower defense map from Blizzard's Warcraft 3. In addition, the movie "Cape Paradise", released in 1960, also became the inspiration for the potato bomb in the game.
Movie: Cape Paradise
Plants vs. Zombies was originally launched on Microsoft and MacOS, but it took several years for development companies to launch the game on Android, IOS, PS, Nintendo, BlackberryOS, and more, covering almost all platforms at the time.
Billie Eilishi mentioned in the behind-the-scenes footage of "Bad Guy" that the chorus of her famous song, although it sounds different, is a combination of the theme song of "Plants vs. Zombies" and Disney's "Young Magician". You can play the theme song of "Plants vs. Zombies" at 1.25 times speed, and there may be surprises.
Billie Eilishi
Plants vs Zombies was once called Lawn of The Dead, but the title of the game was changed to the current Plant vs Zombie due to copyright issues, and the game was set in the original blueprint, and almost became a sequel to Aquarium madness. However, later the producer felt that this design was not outstanding, and deleted and rewritten the previous design, becoming what we see now.
In the original version of the game, the original dancer zombie prototype was the image in one of Michael Jackson's MV "Thriller", and the description in the original picture book wrote that the similarities between the dancer zombie and all living or deceased people were purely coincidental, just two months after the release of the game, MJ unfortunately died, resulting in in August 2010, the game developer PopCap received a request from the MJ estate management agency to ban this character. So the official re-pays tribute to the characters in "The Simpsons" and designs a new image of the dancer zombie.
In the original game, there is a 1 in 10,000 chance of a very rare zombie death animation, and this animation is when the zombie tries to break through the nut wall, there is a very low probability of a nut-like allergic reaction, resulting in facial puffiness, eyes bulging and suffocation animation.
In the first version of the game, players can see a letter in the game's help screen, which reads: "When zombies appear, just sit where you are and do nothing, and when zombies enter your home, it is when you win." The bottom right corner of the letter is marked that this help was written for you by the zombies, but I don't know why, after which this setting was removed, and many old players expressed regret.
In fact, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Wars is not the first PvP mode game in the series, as early as the NDS, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, there is a player-player mode, which can be played after unlocking a specific main line level. Although the gameplay is the same as the general mode, players can choose to fight with a lineup of plants or zombies after going online.
In the IOS and Android versions, the zombies in the trash can in the main interface will increase as the number of players kills, and after killing 10,000 zombies, they will get the title of Undead Space, and the highest part of this zombie pile can also see the entire galaxy. If the achievement screen is pulled to the bottom and continues to pull down, you can finally see zombies wearing Chinese costumes on the other side of the earth.
In the PC version, the game also has a page called Limbo, and there are many hidden game modes, such as nut bowling tournaments, sunny mode that increases the amount of sunshine, frozen levels that no player can complete, pressure mode that cannot be used by throwing plants, and so on. To be precise, these hidden game ontology are mainly from undeveloped or cancelled game modes, but these hidden modes are unlocked by special methods.
As soon as the promo "Plants vs. Zombies" was released, it was wildly spread because of the magical melody, and the promotional song "There's a Zombie on your Lawn" was also the ending song of the original game.
In World of Warcraft, there was a tribute to Plants vs. Zombies mini-game PeaceBloom versus Ghouls, and the final mission of this mini-game was called Lawn of the Dead.
The Steam version of Plants vs. Zombies has a hidden setting for beard mode, and players only need to enter mustache commands in the game to trigger the mode that makes zombies grow beards. In addition to the beard, there are actually many hidden game instructions in the original game, such as entering future zombies will be paired with sunglasses, and the game according to the stage of growth of the wisdom tree, entering daisies, dance and pinata, respectively, will make the zombies in the game change, such as dancing on the move, dropping candy and chrysanthemums when dying.
PopCap had worked with the East Carolina University ECU to study the positive impact of casual gaming on players, and according to research at the time, the average group of people who played casual games had symptoms of anxiety slowed by up to 57%. At the same time, it is also pointed out that playing casual games can also effectively alleviate anxiety.
The charm of Plants vs. Zombies is that some of the levels in the game often appear some, because of the chain reaction between the terrain and the use of plants, resulting in unexpected ways to clear the level, such as in the pirate harbor of Plants vs. Zombies 2, if the holographic nuts are placed on the edge of the map near the sea, the little devil cannon will fall into the sea except for the last shot. If you kill the Fisherman Zombie in the water, The Fisherman 2 Zombie will surface before sinking, and the hand will surface to give a thumbs up, paying homage to the terminator's iconic action.
Before plants vs. zombies 2 was launched, an email was received from the mother of a child with leukemia, and for this reason, Bernie Yee, the producer of Plants vs. Zombies 2, sent a sample of the game as a gift to the child. Plants vs. Zombies has always had benefits for younger players, who hosted an event called Stop Zombie Mouth on Halloween, which provided a free download serial number for adults to print out on Halloween and give it to children instead of candy.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Wars is the first non-tower defense third-person shooter in the series, and in addition to the name tribute to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the game content is also inspired by The Way to Survive and Team Fortress, but the producers say that the game is intended to be funny, and because the game uses the Frostbite3 engine that also came to make Battlefield 4, efforts have been made to increase the realism that the original cartoon style did not have The game's worldview is also restored to the original world.
"Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Wars 2" is the first game in the series to sell at AAA price, the official added in the game can be in the previous game, the unlocked characters and game progress ported to the new game system, and this game did not have a single-player mode when launched, which disappointed many players, fortunately, the official added PVE mode in the later stage.
In the United States, there is a theme park related to "Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Wars" 3Z Arena, this theme park is also the world's first 3D interactive park, players can buy a variety of peripheral products in the park, you can also use infrared guns in the cinema to participate in the game, kill the zombies that appear in the screen.
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