Plants vs. Zombies (series)

The Plants vs. Zombies series are composed of many games with different game genres, all published by PopCap Games. On this series, there is two major factions which are constantly battle themselves, the plants and the zombies. On every game there is a person called Crazy Dave, which helps the player to stop the zombies and their leader Dr. Zomboss, the main antagonist of the series. Every game consists of many different game modes to increase the ways and fun to play. The series is also on a wide variety of platforms, from handheld consoles such as the DS, DSiWare to home consoles such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

On the main series composed of Plants vs. Zombies and Plants vs. Zombies 2 which follows a tower defense genre, the players need to use different plants provided to defend against the zombies, which are trying to invade the player's house to eat their brains. The series comprises of a myriad of plants, such as peashooting plants; lobbed-shot plants; defensive plants;etc, and each plant is unique due to their different abilities. The zombies also have a variety of special abilities. For example, they use roadcones and buckets to protect themselves, some can use items to jump over the plants, and the stronger zombies include Gargantuars and Giga-gargantuars.

Starting from 2014, the Plants vs. Zombies series introduced its spin-off subseries. Garden Warfare revamped completely the game's formula, changing the tower defense style to a constantly online third person shooter where both plants and zombies can be controlled, with many similiarities between them. This genre continues with the release of Garden Warfare 2 in 2016, where an offline mode was introduced. Here, the zombies have taken Suburbia, the neighbourhood you live in and transformed it into Zomburbia.

Also in 2016, a new spin-off has been released. Plants vs. Zombies Heroes takes control of both plants and zombies on a card-collecting game against single-player opponents or real-time opponents from other parts of the world.

2009

 * 5th May 2009: Plants vs. Zombies is released to Windows and OS X in North America.

2013

 * July 9, 2013: Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released in Australia on iOS.
 * August 15, 2013: Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released worldwide on iOS.
 * September 12, 2013: Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released in China on Android.
 * October 2, 2013: Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released in Australia on Android.
 * October 23, 2013: Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released worldwide on Android.

Canceled games
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