Fire up Plants Vs. Zombies 2 today and you'll be offered the chance to play a Pinata party level that teases the new The Dark Ages update coming to the game. How good are your gardening skills... at night?
Popcap's upcoming update to the game will provide players with a whole new world, free of charge. As with the other updates it will give a series of levels and challenges to complete, as well as some new plants and goodies to purchase, of course.
This is the fifth world in the game, and will be set at night, appropriately enough. This means the return of the mushroom plants from the last game. Zombies will appear in Peasant garb, and new zombies like Flag Peasants, Knight Zombies, and Jester Zombies will appear. Expect plants like the Fune-shroom, Sun Bean and Puff-shroom to return.
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One of the coolest new plants is the Lightning Reed, which fires lightning at the closest zombie within three lanes. The lightning can arc to other zombies as well. If you give it plant food is will generate a storm cloud that chases zombies and does massive damage to them for a limited time. It's a really powerful little plant, and perfect for fighting groups of zombies.
But don't take our word for it. Download the free-to-play game now if you haven't already and start up the Pinata party today, and you'll play a quick level from the upcoming update. Hopefully we will hear about a release date soon but until then we have these quick levels to try out.
Check out the teaser trailer below for some quick Monty Python and Sword in the Stone references!