40 Fun Facts About Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Rose, the sorceress of Garden Warfare 2, can cast a spell that turns zombies into which animals?

Goats are what her Goatify spell leaves behind, and a transformed zombie can do little except run until the magic wears off.

Which sci-fi game series is spoofed by the Z7 character given to Garden Warfare 2 pre-order buyers?

Mass Effect got the send-up under the punning name Grass Effect, and its makers at BioWare helped build the armoured suit themselves.

Kernel Corn, a soldier added in Garden Warfare 2, has a name that puns on which military rank?

Colonel is the rank behind the pun, fitting a plant who was stationed overseas during the first game and came home to find his town conquered.

What do the zombies rename the town they conquer in the story of Garden Warfare 2?

Zomburbia is the new name, and the takeover flips the series: for the first time the plants go on the attack while the zombies defend.

Plants vs. Zombies began as tower defence, but Garden Warfare 2 belongs to which other genre?

Third-person shooter is the genre, and for all its cartoon looks Polygon's review ranked it beside the Battlefield games as a great-playing shooter.

Which plant class in Garden Warfare 2 is a time-travelling bounty hunter from the future?

Citron is the bounty hunter, an orange who rolls into a ball to reach the fight faster and first appeared in Plants vs. Zombies 2.

Which follow-up to Garden Warfare 2 arrived in 2019 and later reached the Nintendo Switch?

Battle for Neighborville took over, sorting its classes into four groups: attackers, defenders, supporters and swarm.

Which Garden Warfare 2 zombie was made in a lab yet believes he stars in a 1980s action movie?

Super Brainz is the deluded hero, a melee fighter with a three-punch combo who keeps getting distracted by his own reflection.

What do Garden Warfare 2 players spend their coins on at the shops found in each side's base?

Sticker packs hold the cosmetics and other unlocks, and the coins to buy them come from story missions, multiplayer matches and co-op ops.

What is the giant robot suit that the tiny Imp class can summon and pilot in Garden Warfare 2?

Z-Mech is the suit, which lifts the fragile Imp to 350 health and arms him with missiles, but he must wait two minutes before summoning it.

Which studio developed Garden Warfare 2, a game published by Electronic Arts in February 2016?

PopCap, the Seattle studio that created the original lawn-defence game, built the sequel for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One.

What is the explorable hub world of Garden Warfare 2, split between a plant base and a zombie base?

Backyard Battleground is the hub, where players pick up quests, customise their characters and step through portals into every other mode.

Captain Deadbeard gave the zombies of Garden Warfare 2 their first dedicated class of which type?

Sniper is his role: zoomed in, his gun fires precise long-range shots, yet the same weapon becomes a close-range scattershot when he isn't aiming.

Which Garden Warfare 2 mode reverses Gardens & Graveyards, so plants attack while zombies defend?

Herbal Assault hands the offence to the plants for up to 24 players, and Rose becomes the class that sets up her team's teleporter.

In Garden Warfare 2, Dr. Zomboss built a giant robot shaped like which animal that Crazy Dave hates?

A cat was the model, and zombie players pilot the feline robot against waves of gnomes in the endless Infinity Time mode.

In Garden Warfare 2, plants pilot Junkasaurus, a scrap-built robot shaped like which dinosaur?

Triceratops is the shape of Junkasaurus, a robot made entirely of garbage that plant players steer against waves of gnomes in Infinity Time.

Which plant added by the Trials of Gnomus update is Garden Warfare 2's toughest regular class?

Torchwood tops the list with 275 health, and legend says he was sealed inside a magic chest because of his immeasurable rage.

Which Chomper variant rewarded players who reached the top rank of 313 in the first Garden Warfare?

Unicorn Chomper was the loyalty prize, claimed by importing first-game progress, and the offer closed for good a year after launch.

In Garden Warfare 2, the plants' secret agency L.E.A.F. is the League of Extraordinary Action what?

Foliage finishes the name, and the agency's missions, handed out by a robot double of Crazy Dave and a trio of plant agents, form the plant side's story.

On which Garden Warfare 2 map must plants wreck a giant magnet before it causes a permanent eclipse?

Moon Base Z is the zombies' mining outpost, where low gravity lets every character jump higher and fall more slowly than usual.

Seeds of Time, a Garden Warfare 2 map said to be built by wizards, is what kind of attraction?

A theme park about time travel is the setting, and zombies finish the match by pushing a Bootering Ram through a medieval village to the castle gates.

In Garden Warfare 2, zombies thaw the Yeti King of Great White North by aiming light with what?

Mirrors do the job: there are three, and the more of them the zombies keep turned on the ice, the faster the king defrosts.

Which game engine built by DICE runs Garden Warfare 2, as it did the first Garden Warfare?

Frostbite, created for the Battlefield games, made the first Garden Warfare the earliest Plants vs. Zombies title to run on it.

Which publisher's tie-in series showed how the zombies took Suburbia before Garden Warfare 2?

Dark Horse Comics ran the three-part prequel from October 2015, months before the game itself reached shops.

Which feature of each base let Garden Warfare 2 players import characters unlocked in the first game?

The mailbox handled the transfer, along with loyalty rewards based on first-game rank, until the service ended on February 28, 2017.

At which company's E3 2015 briefing did Garden Warfare 2 make its first public appearance?

Microsoft's show carried the first trailer in June 2015, only days after the sequel had been teased online.

Vanquish Confirmed in Garden Warfare 2, with orbs to grab from fallen foes, echoes which series?

Call of Duty has Kill Confirmed, the model for this mode, where a vanquish only counts once someone collects the orb the victim drops.

Which mode from the first Garden Warfare was missing when Garden Warfare 2 launched?

Taco Bandits sat out the sequel, and its idea only resurfaced in a 2018 update as a mode where both teams steal and defend.

In Garden Warfare 2's Garden Ops and Graveyard Ops, what casino device decides which bosses appear?

A slot machine spins on the fifth and tenth waves, and its reels can land on up to three bosses, a jackpot or a huge swarm.

The Cactus class in Garden Warfare 2 can launch a flying drone named after which pungent bulb?

Garlic gives the drone its name, and from the air it can scout ahead, shoot at zombies and summon a devastating corn strike.

Which zombie class in Garden Warfare 2 is the only one able to build teleporters for the team?

Engineer builds them, and in the sequel he swapped his flying drone for the Big Bolt Blaster, a turret that fires 100 rapid shots.

Which King of the Hill-style mode sits in the middle of Garden Warfare 2's hub world?

Flag of Power triples the damage of whoever raises it and makes them four times tougher, while ever harder waves try to pull it down.

Which basic plant minions are Garden Warfare 2's answer to the Browncoat zombies?

Weeds fill that role, swarming zombie players in Graveyard Ops and wearing pumpkins or flowerpots where a zombie would wear a cone or bucket.

On which PC storefront did Garden Warfare 2 first appear in May 2022, six years after launch?

Steam received the Deluxe Edition in 2022, six years after the PC version had first launched on EA's own Origin service.

Which Garden Warfare 2 mode rewards a team for holding all three command posts at the same time?

Suburbination is both the mode and the bonus: a team holding every post sees its score climb ever faster until the other side breaks the hold.

Which pink-clad gnome sells rare items for coins from his Bazaar in Garden Warfare 2?

Rux deals in customisations that can cost up to a million coins, and his stock changes every time he turns up.

Which map set at Crazy Dave's mansion joined Garden Warfare 2 in the 2019 Soil Survivors update?

Wall-nut Hills arrived three years after launch as a Gardens & Graveyards map, where the zombies try to seize the mansion for themselves.

Which plant class is the dedicated healer of Garden Warfare 2, keeping allies alive with a beam?

Sunflower is the medic: in the tower defence games she produced sun, but here she exists to heal other plants with her Heal Beam.

What is unusual about the Magic Thistles that Rose fires as her main weapon in Garden Warfare 2?

They chase enemies whenever the crosshair turns red, so her slow-moving shots rarely miss unless something solid blocks them.

In Garden Warfare 2's hub world, unlocked characters go on display as which kind of collectible?

Bobbleheads stand in for every unlocked character, and players use the little nodding figures to upgrade their classes and variants.