Plants Vs Zombies version 1.2.0.1073 + crack + extras.rar

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS [back to top]


OS*: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: 1.2+GHz
Memory (RAM): 512+MB
Free Hard Drive Space: 65+MB
DirectX Version: 8 or later
Sound: DirectX-compatible
Video: DirectX-compatible; 128+MB
Color Quality: 16-bit or 32-bit color mode (256 colors may not work)
Controls: Keyboard and mouse
Internet: Internet connection is required to register/unlock game trials — including those delivered via CD-ROM

*You must be an administrator to install and run this game.
HELP [back to top]

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IMPORTANT HEALTH AND SAFETY INFORMATION [back to top]

A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed to certain visual images, including certain light patterns, flashing lights, or saturated red colors. Exposure to certain patterns or backgrounds on a video monitor, or while playing video games attached to a television set, may induce an epileptic-like seizure. These conditions may induce previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy. If you, or anyone in your family, have a history of epilepsy or seizures, consult your physician prior to playing. Immediately stop playing and consult a doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms:

• Dizziness

• Altered vision

• Eye or muscle twitches

• Loss of awareness

• Disorientation

• Involuntary movement or convulsions

Parents should watch for or ask their children about the above symptoms - children and teenagers are more likely than adults to experience these seizures. To reduce the likelihood of a seizure when playing video games:

• Sit or stand as far from the screen as possible.

• Play video games on the smallest available television screen.

• Do not play if you are tired or need sleep.

• Play in a well-lit room.

• Take a 10 to 15 minute break every hour.

GETTING STARTED [back to top]

Create Your Profile

When you first launch Plants vs. Zombies, you will be asked to enter your name on the New User gravestone. Your progress and high scores will be saved when you quit. If there are several people playing on one computer, you will want to create separate profiles for each. To do this, click on the link on the Main Menu that reads, "If this is not you, click here." A dialog box will appear allowing you to create a new profile as well as rename or delete an old one.

Options

The Options are accessible from the Main Menu screen, or by clicking the Menu button while playing the game. They are:

Music: "Music" sets the volume of in-game music. This sliders can be adjusted to fit your preference.
Sound FX: "Sound FX" sets the volume of in-game sound effects. This slider can be adjusted to fit your preference.
3D Acceleration: This box can be checked to improve performance for computers with supported video cards.
Full Screen: If this is checked, Plants vs. Zombies will use your entire computer screen. If it is not checked, Plants vs. Zombies will be played in a window.
Credits: Once you have completed Adventure mode, hitting this button will replay the credits song.
PLAYING THE GAME [back to top]

The Basics

The goal of Plants vs. Zombies is to protect your home from ever more powerful waves of invading zombies by buying and placing various kinds of anti-zombie plants on your lawn.

Plants vs. Zombies takes place on a lawn broken into rows and columns. Just beyond the left edge of the screen is your house, while just beyond the right side of the screen is the street. At the top of the screen is a seed tray that displays your current amount of sun as well as whatever seed packets you have available.

During each level, zombies slowly make their way leftward from the street towards your home. Your job is to resist the zombie attack by collecting sun and using it to buy various defensive plants to place on your lawn. If you destroy all the zombies in a level, you proceed to the next level. If a zombie makes it all the way to the left side of the screen, you lose.

Controls

Plants vs. Zombies is played with a mouse. To pick up sun or coins, click on them. To place a plant, click on the seed pack in the seed tray, then click on the spot on the lawn where you wish to place your plant. If you've clicked a seed pack that you don't want to plant, right-click to put the seed pack back in the seed tray.

After level 1-4 you receive a shovel that allows you to remove plants. To remove a plant, click on the shovel to pick it up, then click on the plant to remove it.

Sun

Sun is the primary resource in Plants vs. Zombies. Virtually all plants in the game are purchased with sun, so managing your sun supply is one of the most important tasks in the game.

In daytime levels, sun occasionally drops in from the sky in 25-sun units. While useful, this natural source of sun is insufficient to mount a serious defense against the zombies. After the first level you are awarded a new seed, the sunflower, which grows 25-sun units of its own. Plant sunflowers (and later, in nighttime levels, sun-shrooms) to generate enough sun to defend your lawn.

Sun units, either falling from the sky or generated by sunflowers and sun-shrooms, fall on the ground and, if unclicked, vanish after a few seconds.

Surplus sun is not carried over from one level to the next.

Plants and Planting

Plants are your warriors against the encroaching force of the zombie wave. There are many different plants with many different abilities. Some plants fire projectiles that damage zombies; some block or slow the zombies' progress; some destroy zombies and themselves in a single instant; and some have entirely different functions.

Plants are planted from the seed tray at the top of the screen. All plants (except puff-shrooms and sea-shrooms) cost some amount of sun to plant. As well, all seed packs take time to recharge. A recharging seed pack is grayed out and gradually brightens as it recharges. When the seed pack is fully recharged it lights up and is ready to be planted again.

As you progress through the game and complete levels, new plants are typically awarded at the end of the level to add to your arsenal. These new plants appear in your seed tray at the top of the screen. After level 1-7 you will have more plants than slots in your seed tray. From then on, before each level, you will be given the opportunity to select which plants you wish to bring with you to defend your lawn.

For a complete listing of all the plants and their abilities, consult the in-game Almanac that appears after level 2-4.

Zombies

Nobody knows exactly what eldritch force or demented science allowed the dead to rise from their graves and walk. What we do know is that the resulting creature, popularly termed a "Zombie," is a restless, mindless, tireless being driven by nothing other than its hunger for brains. Your brains, to be precise.

In order to get those brains, zombies are willing to chew through any plants in their way. Though slow, zombies are persistent, and if even a single zombie gets past your defenses and into your house, he will eat your brains.

A zombie can typically endure some damage before it dies. When its arm drops off it is close to dying. When its head drops off it is dead and can no longer eat your plants, though its body may continue to move and block shots for a moment or two longer.

As with plants, there are many different kinds of zombie. As you progress through the game you will encounter more powerful zombies with protections from and immunities to your various plants. As a result you will be forced to constantly devise new approaches and strategies for your defense. At the beginning of each level your view swings over to show you the various zombies you will face during the level as they mindlessly congregate in the street prior to their attack.

A typical zombie attack starts out slowly, with single zombies at first but gradually increasing in number as the level goes on. The level progress bar in the lower right-hand corner of the screen shows how far through the level you are, with the brain flags on the bar indicating particularly large waves of zombies.

For a complete listing of all the zombies and their abilities, consult the in-game Almanac that appears after level 2-4.

Shovel

After you complete level 1-4, Crazy Dave (see Crazy Dave below) appears and presents you with a shovel. The shovel can be used to dig up plants in order to make room for new plants.

The shovel is found to the right of the seed tray. To use it, left-click on it, then left-click on the plant you wish to remove. You must do this for each plant you wish to remove; the shovel disappears from your hand after each use.

Lawnmowers

On the very leftmost side of the screen, further left than your leftmost lawn column, is a column of lawnmowers. These are your defenses of last resort. When a zombie eats the leftmost plant in a row and continues towards the house, the lawnmower activates, mowing down not only the invading zombie but every zombie in that row.

Once a lawnmower has been activated, that row must be protected with plants. Any zombie that gets past your plants in that row will enter your house and eat your brains.

Since the lawnmowers destroy all zombies in a row when used, if you reach the final wave in a level with all your lawnmowers intact you can be assured of surviving the level. Conversely, if the final wave hits and you are missing some lawnmowers, then the rows without lawnmowers must be successfully defended in order to complete the level.

In Stage 3 (the pool stage), the two center pool rows are unprotected by lawnmowers. However, you can buy pool cleaners that behave the same as lawnmowers from Crazy Dave (see Crazy Dave below).

Once you reach Stage 5 (the roof stage), your roof does not come pre-equipped with lawnmowers. However, you can buy roof cleaners that behave the same as lawnmowers from Crazy Dave (see Crazy Dave below).

At the end of each level, you receive a gold coin for each unused lawnmower (see Coins and Money below).

Crazy Dave

Crazy Dave is your affable, addled next-door neighbor. As a longtime resident of this zombie-infested neighborhood, he has plenty of advice and help to offer regarding anti-zombie defense.

Crazy Dave periodically pops up to introduce new game elements and mini-game-like themed levels. For example, he appears before level 1-4 to introduce the shovel, and once he's done he sets up level 1-5 as a friendly game of wall-nut bowling. Generally speaking, Crazy Dave presents mini-game challenges on the fifth and tenth levels of each stage.

Once you've earned $750 (see Coins and Money below), Crazy Dave appears and offers to upgrade your seed tray.

Once you've completed level 3-4, Crazy Dave again appears and presents his "Shop" from which you can buy various tools, upgrades and other items. Access Crazy Dave's Shop by clicking the car keys on the Main Menu, or by clicking the "Shop" button in the Zen Garden or the seed-selection screen.

For a full list of the products available for purchase at Crazy Dave's shop, consult the Crazy Dave's Shop entry in the Scoring section below.

Gravestones

Gravestones appear on your lawn during nighttime levels. You cannot plant on gravestones. Furthermore, zombies erupt out of gravestones during the final wave at the end of each level.

Coins and Money

Starting at level 2-1 (the first nighttime level), zombies will occasionally drop coins when they are destroyed. These coins can be used at Crazy Dave's Shop to purchase tools, upgrades and other items (see Crazy Dave's Shop below). If unclicked, coins disappear after a few seconds.

In addition to destroyed zombies, every gravestone you destroy drops a coin. As well, you also receive a gold coin for each lawnmower remaining at the end of a level.

Coin type Dollar value
Silver 10
Gold 50
Diamond 1000
Once the Mini-game, Puzzle, Survival and Zen Garden modes are unlocked, you earn coins and money for playing and completing these as well.

Almanac

After level 2-4, you receive the Suburban Almanac. This tome contains useful and amusing details about every plant and zombie you have encountered in the game.

The Almanac, once unlocked, can be accessed from the Main Menu or during the seed-selection screen before each level in Adventure mode.

GAME MODES [back to top]

Adventure

Adventure mode is the primary mode of Plants vs. Zombies, pitting you and your planting prowess against the hordes of the undead who hunger for both your brains and your real estate.

Zombie attacks come in five stages of 10 levels each:

Stage 1: Day takes place during the day. Your lawn is five rows tall.

Stage 2: Night takes place during the night. Your lawn is five rows tall and you can use nighttime plants.

Stage 3: Pool takes place during the day. Your lawn is six rows tall, two of which are taken up by your pool.

Stage 4: Fog takes place during the night. Your lawn is six rows tall (including two pool rows) and part of the lawn is obscured by fog.

Stage 5: Roof takes place during the day on your roof. Your roof is five rows tall.

The fifth and tenth levels of each stage are played differently from regular levels. The fifth level of each stage typically involves a mini-game challenge of some kind. On the tenth level of each stage, seeds are given to you on a conveyor belt rather than you choosing them yourself before the level begins.

Once you have completed Adventure mode, you can replay it. This time, however, Crazy Dave will pick three plants at random for each level. Sometimes his picks are useful, other times not so much. Completing levels during replays of Adventure mode earns 5 gold coins ($250).

Mini-games

Mini-games are unlocked once you receive the present in the middle of level 3-2 in Adventure mode. Access the mini-games by clicking the "Mini-Games" button on the Main Menu gravestone.

When you first unlock the mode, only three mini-games can be played. Once you complete Adventure mode, the remaining mini-games become available but are locked. Each time you finish a mini-game, a new one is unlocked.

There are twenty mini-games in total. They are: ZomBotany, Wall-nut Bowling, Slot Machine, It's Raining Seeds, Beghouled, Invisi-ghoul, Seeing Stars, Zombiquarium, Beghouled Twist, Big Trouble Little Zombie, Portal Combat, Column Like You See 'Em, Bobsled Bonanza, Zombie Nimble Zombie Quick, Whack a Zombie, Last Stand, ZomBotany 2, Wall-nut Bowling 2, Pogo Party, and Dr. Zomboss's Revenge.

You receive a diamond ($1000) for each mini-game you complete. Mini-games can be replayed at any time; completing them again awards 5 gold coins ($250) each time. Each time you play a mini-game, there is also a chance zombies will drop plants for your Zen Garden.

Puzzle

Puzzle mode is unlocked once you receive the present in the middle of level 4-6 in Adventure mode. Access the puzzles by clicking the "Puzzle" button on the Main Menu gravestone.

There are two kinds of puzzle: Vasebreaker and I, Zombie.

In Vasebreaker, your lawn is filled with varying numbers of vases. Break the vases to reveal either plants or zombies, then use the plants to destroy the zombies. There are ten Vasebreaker levels. They are: Vasebreaker, To the Left, Third Vase, Chain Reaction, M is for Metal, Scary Potter, Hokey Pokey, Another Chain Reaction, Ace of Vase and Vasebreaker Endless. You receive 5 gold coins ($250) for each Vasebreaker level you complete. Subsequent completions earn 2 gold coins ($100).

In I, Zombie, you play the zombie's role, placing zombies to chew through rows of cardboard plants. Eat through all the rows to consume the tasty brains behind! There are ten I, Zombie levels. They are: I, Zombie, I, Zombie Too, Can You Dig It?, Totally Nuts, Dead Zeppelin, Me Smash, ZomBoogie, Three Hit Wonder, All your brainz r belong to us and I, Zombie Endless. You receive a diamond ($1000) for each I, Zombie level you complete. Subsequent completions earn 5 gold coins ($250).

Survival

Survival mode is unlocked once you complete Adventure mode. Access Survival mode by clic