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GAME · 2009 · USA

Plants vs. Zombies

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Plants vs. Zombies, released in 2009, is a tower defense game in which players plant defenses to stop waves of zombies.

12 Interesting Facts About Plants vs. Zombies

  1. #001

    The dancing zombie's original design resembled Michael Jackson, who died the year the game came out. The design was changed in 2010.

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  2. #002

    Composer Laura Shigihara also provides the voice of the singing Sunflower in the end credits.

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  3. #003

    The Cob Cannon is the only plant that takes up more than one square of the lawn grid.

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  4. #004

    The game was first announced with a music video for "Zombies on Your Lawn," released on April 1, 2009.

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  5. #005

    A Yeti zombie has a rare chance of appearing. It never shows up on your first playthrough; Zombie Yeti turns up in later replays of the game mode, always somewhere in Level 4-10. Spotting it also earns the "Zombologist" achievement.

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  6. #006

    The game was originally going to be called "Zombotany." The name was instead given to the mini-game featuring plant-headed zombies.

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  7. #007

    The expanded home console release of Plants vs. Zombies added bonus levels, one of which swapped zombie heads for peashooter and wall-nut heads, making the zombies tougher to kill and allowing them to destroy plants before reaching them.

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  8. #008

    The Gatling Pea upgrade applies to a repeater rather than a standard peashooter or threepeater, and it fires 4 peas at once down the same lane.

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  9. #009

    The pole vaulting zombie can clear a regular wall-nut but not a tall-nut, which stands too high off the ground for it to jump.

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  10. #010

    A water-vaulting zombie rides a dolphin, leaps over the first plant in its path and moves extremely fast.

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  11. #011

    Every mushroom-type plant, sun-shrooms included, sleeps during the day, and before a level begins the game greys out plants that can't be used so players don't select them by mistake.

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  12. #012

    Zomboss has more than 20,000 hit points, against 15 for an ordinary zombie.

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