By Alec Meer on August 20th, 2012 at 2:13 pm.
Best of all the news: Popcap have announced Plants vs Zombies 2.
Worst of all the news: We won’t get to play the vegetation vs vegetative tower defence sequel until late Spring next year.
Medium news: basically no details apart from that and “hordes of new Plant and Zombie types.” The press release makes up for it by saying “and mulch more” though.
I don’t know why you’re reading this bit. I can’t tell you anything else. The press release is quite funny though. I can share bits of it with you if you promise not to tell me off for pasting press releases. Do you promise? Do you? OK then:
“Spring is crullest curlie ungood time, and plantz grow dull roots,” noted an unidentified spokesperson. “So, we are meating you for brainz at yore house. No worry to
skedule schedlueplan… we’re freee anytime. We’ll find you.”
Hey, you promised!
20/08/2012 at 14:22 oWn4g3 says:
There have been rumors about a “restructuring” of Popcap by EA. Let’s hope our brainz won’t be affected by this.
https://twitter.com/georgeb3dr/status/237345470932992001
20/08/2012 at 14:49 Hoaxfish says:
“Hey, I feel, as an EA exec, much closer to the zombies than those ugly flowers, I think you should make it so the zombies are the heros… also, can it be an FPS?”
20/08/2012 at 14:55 Faldrath says:
Not that far from the truth, looks like: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-09-plants-vs-zombies-multiplayer-console-shooter-in-development-report
20/08/2012 at 15:14 FCA says:
What’s next? A live-action movie starring Bruce Willis with a dubstep soundtrack?
20/08/2012 at 15:33 Belsameth says:
Reading the press release, it seems to me that’s actually a different game, set in the PvZ world…
20/08/2012 at 14:22 trjp says:
I can’t work out why they didn’t originally call it “Lawn of the Dead” to be honest…
That said, somewhere there’s a man who came up with “Ski Resort Mogul” and is still gutted that no-one else on earth saw the pun….
20/08/2012 at 14:24 jph330 says:
@trjp: They said they were going to and couldn’t because of rights issues.
20/08/2012 at 14:28 trjp says:
Someone else has the exclusive rights to Zombies invading a garden!?
20/08/2012 at 14:43 Alien426 says:
Could you explain the pun in Ski Resort Mogul? Maybe it’s because English isn’t my first language or I maybe it’s because of my brain being missing.
20/08/2012 at 14:49 HexagonalBolts says:
a ‘mogul’ can mean a successful businessman but it can also mean a part of a skiing course
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogul
20/08/2012 at 15:00 Alien426 says:
Aha! Thanks.
20/08/2012 at 18:10 soco says:
I remember reading one of the Popcap folks saying they were going to call it Lawn of the Dead, but one of their lawyers said that while they would be in the right to use the name and it would be legal it was likely they would need to go to court for it and it would be expensive.
20/08/2012 at 14:23 xenphilos says:
For bad spellers, the zombies use punctuation pretty well.
20/08/2012 at 14:25 Bauul says:
Of course, good grammar education never leaves you. Even after death.
20/08/2012 at 15:21 abandonhope says:
When a life is punctuated by the tragedy of zombification, it dashes hopes. Afterward is a period for quiet reflection and personal space, marked by questions of how long it takes before a rotted colon becomes really putrid, and of who must put a bullet in the brain.
20/08/2012 at 17:04 Wabznasm says:
As a bad speller – Thanks for the clarification!
20/08/2012 at 14:30 Lars Westergren says:
> “Hey, you promised!”
What, “give peas a chance?”. Nuts to that, I say.
20/08/2012 at 14:33 Pliqu3011 says:
Oh, come on, that’s so corny.
20/08/2012 at 14:39 McDan says:
I dunno, it peppered the conversation with some pips of humour.
20/08/2012 at 14:59 atticus says:
Great, another string of puns has taken root.
20/08/2012 at 15:09 Lambchops says:
I guess I can plant a pun before I shoot off.
20/08/2012 at 16:12 ClockworkTiger says:
I know some people don’t like these long daisy chains of puns very mulch, but when it’s so easy to just scroll on past, I don’t think they have mushroom for complaint. Besides, we’ve bean doing this sow long, it’s grown into a tradition. If you don’t like it, then just leaf us in peas.
20/08/2012 at 16:57 Ian says:
These pun threads are a bit seedy.
20/08/2012 at 18:42 Geen says:
Stop planting so many hidden puns in your comments!
20/08/2012 at 14:34 Pliqu3011 says:
The nut. It stares at me. Angrily.
20/08/2012 at 14:56 Lambchops says:
For further enquiries ring this number
I rang it and asked about the mulch much more
I was greeted with awkward groaning
They had lied to me
They had lied to me in their press release
20/08/2012 at 16:52 slowly_over says:
Half Man Half Biscuit. Nice. http://open.spotify.com/track/4wBRyXiCgf81d7nR7Ae3UA
20/08/2012 at 18:50 Lambchops says:
I’m glad someone spotted the reference! For today at least, you win the internet.
20/08/2012 at 14:59 Unaco says:
This story should be quite… fertile ground for some puns.
20/08/2012 at 15:10 Nim says:
Or will it be a tough nut to crack?
20/08/2012 at 15:09 mckertis says:
“hordes of new Plant and Zombie types.”
I’m not sure why they bother. There were already way too many useless plant types, which is proven by the precise guides for the endless mode survival. What they SHOULD do is create more mini-games. I played them way, way more than the main game, especially the pot break one.
21/08/2012 at 10:19 bfandreas says:
I was a sucker for the endless mode. My god I can’t believe how serious I took this very casual game.
So this is the worst of all possible news since I may sink another couple of hundred hours into lawn defence.
This time I would like a very nice Android pot with mouse support.
Pretty peas? With marigolds on top? The horrible alternative be to buy this game a carrot of times. Which would be gourd-aweful.
Aloe, heh, screw EA…
20/08/2012 at 15:53 RegisteredUser says:
..coming exclusively as facebook app!
20/08/2012 at 16:12 Sadraukar says:
STARING EYES?!
20/08/2012 at 17:30 Eddy9000 says:
I second the motion.
I also think tallnut needs a tag all of its own for being the best videogame character ever.
20/08/2012 at 18:04 OrangyTang says:
Tall Nut already has his own tag:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/horribly-confused-homoeroticism/
20/08/2012 at 18:16 Jimbo says:
Tall-Nuts
20/08/2012 at 20:41 Flavioli says:
I really hope they add some additional challenging modes to the main game… like maybe a mode where enemies take lots more hits to die, so the game becomes less easy. Aside from endless mode (which got a bit repetitive after a while) I didn’t feel like the game provided much of a challenge, and many of the plants were typically unused.
What the game really needs is a mode that forces you to use vegetation you don’t typically use… like, maybe you get to choose a single plant to keep and all the rest are randomized. Or maybe a mode where you can only place a certain amount of each plant. Modes like that, which force you to strategize.
20/08/2012 at 21:19 neolith says:
Braaaaiiins…
20/08/2012 at 22:22 smoke.tetsu says:
I hope it’s HD and widescreen this time. For part one only the toybox got HD and widescreen.