'At PopCap, we've been working on PvZ for years and want to bring our beloved plants and zombies to current players and the next generation of players everywhere,' PopCap said. Seeing as this is very much the way to announce a mobile game, and very much not the way to announce a PC game, I have little hope. PopCap announced PvZ 3 out of nowhere on Tuesday with the launch of a free pre-alpha test. nope, PvZ 3 is seemingly not even coming to PC. But EA have learned a lot from their years of horrible monetisation, and I'd hoped. The second game is still a mess, with microtransactions making everything grody in that early-2010s EA way. The 2009 original is still a joy, a cheery take on tower defence with pea-spitting plants, bungee-jumping zombies, stoics nuts, a lovely theme song, and just enough strategy to be rewarding without baffling. Zombies 2 and the I've-heard-they're-good-but-they're-not-what-I-want multiplayer Garden Warfare spin-offs, I had hoped EA might return to plain ol' PC PvZ. Ian Arts, you are a monster.Īfter the microtransaction-muddled Plants vs. Nullifying news: but this time it's just a mobile game so who even cares. Zombies 3.īad news: it's free-to-play again, and microtransactions were a blight on PvZ 2.

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