Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time |
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Also known as: Plants vs. Zombies 2 This game has unused animations. |
This game is still under active development. Be aware that any unused content you find may become used or removed in the future. Please only add things to the article that are unlikely to ever be used, or went unused for some time. If they do get used, please remove them from the page and specify in the edit summary! |
This page sucks. If you could make it suck less, that would be awesome. Specifically: This page has a lot of strange formatting, organization, and is overall quite messy, not to mention very outdated. This should really get some more work done on it |
To do: Development directories in CDN TAR files. |
A new Plants vs. Zombies game? It's about damn time.
This game notably found a release in China that has completely different mechanics, assets and content. For more details, click here.
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Contents
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Unused or Prototype Plants Unused/Prototype plants leftover in the game. |
Unused Powerups Unused powerups leftover in the game. |
Unused Levels Unused levels leftover in the game. |
Development Leftovers |
Developer Documentations |
XML Files |
Oddities You could once name Penny? |
Removed Content Stuff once in the game that's been removed since. |
Unused Items
####### Gravestones ######## objclass GridItemType aliases gravestone_pirate Pirate_Gravestone PropertySheets GridItemGravestonePirate gravestone_cowboy Cowboy_Gravestone PropertySheets GridItemGravestoneCowboy gravestone_future Future_Gravestone PropertySheets GridItemGravestoneFuture
The unused gravestones appeared to be finished and fully functional but they were not used for the game, it seems at one point during development of Plants vs. Zombies 2 every world was originally gonna use these gravestones before they went scrapped due to the flavor of Ancient Egypt and Dark Ages gravestones.
####### Grid Items ######## barricade_up GridItemBarricade Barricades PropertySheets BarricadeUp barricade_down PropertySheets BarricadeDown barricade_up_noncolliding PropertySheets BarricadeUpNonColliding barricade_down_noncolliding PropertySheets BarricadeDownNonColliding lilypad GridItemLilyPad PropertySheets GridItemLilyPadDefault alises vase GridItemVase PropertySheets GridItemVaseDefault VaseBreakerGroup VaseBreakerAudio
Unused Zombies
Zombie Proto
Obviously some sort of test zombie judging by the file name. Only sprites exist for it, which consist of a single dot, and has a idle, walking, eating and death animation.
Cleopatra Zombie
To do: Split all of the Cleopatra Zombie's animations into their own separate gifs. |
A unused zombie that looks like the real Cleopatra and was meant to appear in Ancient Egypt, she would have summon zombies just like the Dancer Zombie in the first game, but not only she can spawn zombies around her, she can also summon zombies vertically, horizontally, in a square, and in front of her. It's unclear why she was scrapped but it was probably because she was to hard for the first world.
Unused Music
Early Pirate Seas Music
An early version of Pirate Seas' music, composed by Laura Shigihara, can be heard in Crazy Dave's second transmission. The track was later uploaded by Shigihara to her YouTube channel due to high demand.
Early Wild West Music
An early variant of the Wild West Mid Wave B soundtrack can be heard in Crazy Dave's last transmission. This track is used in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars.
Early Far Future Music
An early composition of the Far Future First Wave soundtrack is found in the v1.5 files.
Early Dark Ages Music
Audio | Notes |
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First Wave | |
Mid Wave A | |
Mid Wave B |
Slightly different compositions of Dark Ages tracks found in v2.3.1 files. They can be heard in the early trailers for Dark Ages.
Early Neon Mixtape Tour Music
Some real world songs such as "Walk Like an Egyptian" from The Bangles were used as placeholders. The soundtrack can be found here.
Early Modern Day Music
Audio | Notes |
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Mid Wave B | |
Final Wave |
Some early Modern Day soundtracks lack some instruments and have different endings than the final versions.
Big Wave Beach Demonstration Minigame Music
The unused Big Wave Beach Demonstration Minigame soundtrack composed by Peter McConnell (the composer of most PvZ2 soundtracks) which was first surfaced from the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 in late 2023.
Early and Internal Names
Plants
- Iceberg Lettuce is internally referenced as "iceburg".
- Tile Turnip is internally referenced as "powerplant", hinting that the artwork was originally different and probably was not gonna be a turnip.
- Rotobaga is internally referenced as "xshot", however in earlier versions it was temporary named "x-shot" before the final artwork and name came in.
- Red Stinger was internally called "columnpod" in earlier versions before it was changed into "redstinger".
- Gold Leaf is internally referenced as "goldtileturnip", probably because both the Tile Turnip and Gold Leaf make tiles.
- Perfume-shroom was referred to as "dinonip" in the prototype codes for Jurassic Marsh.
Zombies
- Several zombies have internal names that don't reflect their actual in-game names:
- Conehead Zombie, Buckethead Zombie, and all of their variants from other worlds share the same ending suffixes: _armor1 and _armor2 respectively.
- Knight Zombie, Blockhead Zombie, Jurassic Fossilhead, and Centurion Zombie share the _armor3 suffix.
- Brickhead Zombie, Pyramid-Head Zombie, Barrelhead Zombie, Cart-Head Zombie, Holo Head Zombie, Amberhead Zombie, and Bust Head Zombie share the _armor4 suffix.
- Barrel Roller Zombie as "barrelpusher" in earlier versions.
- Chicken Wrangler Zombie as "chicken_farmer".
- Shield Zombie as "future_protector".
- Jester Zombie as "dark_juggler"
- Parasol Zombie as "lostcity_jane", likely a reference to Jane Porter from Tarzan.
- Turquoise Skull Zombie as "lostcity_crystalskull"
- Conehead Zombie, Buckethead Zombie, and all of their variants from other worlds share the same ending suffixes: _armor1 and _armor2 respectively.
- Bug Bot Imp's original in-game name was "Spider Bot Imp" in earlier versions.
Penny's Early Name
Penny is internally referenced as "Winnie".
PC Release Text
[HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED] Hardware Acceleration cannot be enabled on this computer. Your video card does not meet the minimum requirements for this game. [INVALID_WINDOWS_MODE] Windowed mode is only available if your desktop was running in either 16 bit or 32 bit color mode when you started the game. If you'd like to run in Windowed mode then you need to quit the game and switch your desktop to 16 or 32 bit color mode. [NO_WINDOWED_MODE] No Windowed Mode [OPTIONS_3D_ACCELERATION] 3D Acceleration [OPTIONS_FULL_SCREEN] Full Screen [SLOW_PERFORMANCE] Your video card may not fully support this feature. If you experience slower performance, please disable Hardware Acceleration.
Debugging Material
To do: Code and text for Zombie Spawning Debug and a portion of other debugging functions are present in older versions of the game to v3.1.1. Despite the cheat menu isn't loaded, maybe the functions exist to enable them? |
Various game files mention a cheat menu, preferably in the main game data, this video showcases one from the Chinese release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alrD7qNX8mg (ingame) and this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0geM5gF2Mo showcases one from PVZ's YouTube channel livestream (map). Unfortunately, the menu is stripped from nearly every public release.
Developer Mentions
arcade_config.rton mentions developer directories (going by dev) used to test certain scripts, these include: beghouled# (1-3), beghouled_endless and vasebreaker_peapodtest.
The Plants vs. Zombies series
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Windows, Mac OS X | Plants vs. Zombies (Prototypes) |
Android | Plants vs. Zombies • Plants vs. Zombies 2 • Heroes • Plants vs. Zombies 3 (Demos) |
iOS | Plants vs. Zombies • Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Use Your Brainz EDU) • Heroes • Plants vs. Zombies 3 (Demos) |
Adobe Flash | Plants vs. Zombies |
Nintendo DS, DSiWare | Plants vs. Zombies |
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita | Plants vs. Zombies |
China-Exclusive | |
iOS | Great Wall Edition • Plants vs. Zombies 2 • All Stars |
Android | Great Wall Edition (Dev Build) • Journey to the West • Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Dev Build) • All Stars |
Windows | Online |
Android TV | Plants vs. Zombies |
Garden Warfare | |
Windows | Garden Warfare • Garden Warfare 2 • Battle For Neighborville (Closed Alpha) |
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 | Garden Warfare |
Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | Garden Warfare • Garden Warfare 2 • Battle For Neighborville (Closed Alpha) |
Nintendo Switch | Battle For Neighborville (Closed Alpha) |
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