Ice Level is one of the 17 hidden mini-games in the Limbo Page which can only be played using Cheat Engine or PVZ toolkit. This mini-game was considered useless, as no one knew how to play it. It only has six seed slots with plants: Peashooter, Cherry Bomb, Wall-nut, Repeater, Snow Pea, and Chomper. There is no "Restart Level" button and it cannot be saved.
Origin[]
This level was intended to be an April Fools joke from the developers for the game's internal testers in 2008, in which they came up with the idea of creating and announcing a fake Ice Level build.[1] The level originally had 4 regular zombies and a Conehead Zombie frozen, immobile zombies in a glacier background. This ultimately led to the creation of the Zombie Yeti.[2], as well as Frostbite Caves [citation needed]
Limbo Page[]
See Limbo Page
Strategies[]
With no zombies (or nearly anything for that matter), you need to hack the game more in order to win this level.
Hack strategy[]
Play Survival: Day modes, until the final wave. When all zombies have appeared on the screen, change the saved data to game1_42.dat. Then go to the Ice Level and kill the last zombie. Get the trophy and you win the game.
Alternative method[]
Close Plants vs. Zombies if it is open, then open your save file in a hex editor (located at C:\ProgramData\PopCap Games\PlantsVsZombies\userdata in Windows Vista and above, or in the Plants vs. Zombies installation folder in Windows XP), go to offset 0x0B4, change the data from 00 to 01, and then save. The next time when you open the Limbo Page, there should be a trophy mark on the Ice Level button.
In other languages[]
Please note that only official translations are used.
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
 English
|
Ice Level | |
 Simplified Chinese
|
急冻先锋(冰冻关卡) | |
 Traditional Chinese
|
急凍先鋒 | |
 French
|
Niveau de glace | |
 German
|
Eis-Level | |
 Italian
|
Livello su ghiaccio | |
 Japanese
|
氷のステージ | |
 Brazilian Portuguese
|
nivel de gelo | |
 Spanish
|
Nivel de hielo |
Trivia[]
- The icon of the mini-game is the Wall-nut Bowling icon.
- Coincidentally, one can only place a single Wall-nut without further hacking.
- It is the only canceled mini-game which does not work, as its code and settings are completely absent.
- It is also the only canceled mini-game that both cannot be won without cheats.
- It, along with Zen Garden and Tree of Wisdom, are the only parts of the game without zombies.
- There is no music playing and no sun falling from the sky in this level.
- However, if the player waits for 30 seconds, they will hear the floop.ogg sound effect (the one that's played when you make a wrong move in Beghouled, Tangel Kelp pull and kill one zombie into underwater or Hypno-Shroom when a zombie gets hypnotized), and then immediately followed by a game over music.
- Given the "music" that plays is the game over music, it can be assumed that the game over music's file overrides where Ice Level's music once was. This is how the game over starts to play when the Ice Level is starting.
- The code is not broken, but rather intentionally blank. The level was created as an April Fools joke, many found it funny while others hated it. The joke's popularity lead to the creation of the Zombie Yeti.
- Without further hacking, this could be considered the only truly unwinnable mini-game.
Walkthrough[]
References[]
- ↑ It was 100% just an April Fools' joke for the other folks at PopCap while PvZ was in development. We got a bunch of people real good! - George Fan May 5, 2019. Twitter
- ↑ Gwertzman, James (2010). "The Making of PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies" (speaker notes). Retrieved April 25, 2022.
See also[]
| View · Edit |
| Day | Art Challenge Wall-nut · Sunny Day · Unsodded · Big Time · Art Challenge Sunflower · Ice Level · Can You Dig It? · Squirrel† · Survival: Day (Endless) |
| Night | Grave Danger · Survival: Night (Endless) |
| Fog | Air Raid · Dark Stormy Night · Survival: Fog (Endless) |
| Roof | High Gravity · Bungee Blitz * · Survival: Roof (Endless) |
| Others | Zen Garden* · Intro* · Tree of Wisdom* · Upsell |
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