Plants vs. Zombies Online

Plants vs. Zombies Online
Developers: PopCap Games, Tencent Games Platforms: Windows Released in CN: July 18, 2014 This game has unused animations. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics.

This game is defunct. Do note the game no longer works at all without modifications. This is most likely due to the game's servers being shut down. As a result, further official developments with the game are unlikely to happen.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

Essentially an online, PC exclusive version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, Plants vs. Zombies Online was a China-exclusive game in the Plants vs. Zombies series developed in collaboration with Tencent Games. It wouldn't be the first time PopCap collaborated with a controversial developer, that's for sure. It's also notable for being the final tower-defense game in the series thus far to be released for Windows.

On August 11th, 2018, players were no longer able to log into the game and the entire website as well as the server were removed completely.

Unused Animations

Early Sea Anemone

An early animation for Sea Anemone, showing a different design, namely the colors of its head.

Unused Plants

Small Peach from Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars! Looks like it was planned to make an appearance, but was scrapped.

A completely unused plant referred to in the files as 'Mihungu,' who resemble the Hypno-shroom. Interestingly uses the artstyle from the first game.

An animation of Magnet-Shroom stealing a zombie's metal object from Plants vs. Zombies. Strangely uses the first game's artstyle as opposed to the second game's artstyle seen everywhere else in the game. Maybe a placeholder?

Unused Zombies

A scrapped Imp variant that would've fit quite nicely in Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum. No Imps appear in that world, however.

An Imp who would've appeared in East Sea Dragon Palace. No Imps appear in that world.

Unused Graphics

Zombies

A scrapped zombie called the 'Overseer Zombie,' who would've most likely appeared in Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum. Its mechanics and use are unknown.

A zombie known as the 'Turtle Chancellor Zombie' who would've appeared in East Sea Dragon Palace. It would've have great defense, reducing incoming damage by a lot.

Lawns

Two lawns that would've been used in a scrapped tutorial level, both with and without grass.

The lawn for an unknown world. Perhaps from a scrapped farm-themed world?

Hey, it's the daytime lawn from the first game! What it's doing here is unknown, however. Perhaps a placeholder lawn?

Miscellaneous

Present

A colorful present. Formerly used as a reward chest for doing a certain number of daily tasks, but was soon scrapped for unknown reasons.

Lighting Effect

A lighting effect that would've been used for the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum lawn in older versions of the game. Strangely, it is stored as a .swf asset.

Here's how it would've looked in-game.