Plants vs. Zombies: World Tour

Plants vs. Zombies: World Tour is a fan-made tower defense Plants vs. Zombies spin-off game created by CCogStudios. The theme of the game focuses on travelling around the world and fighting off the zombies in unique locations across the globe. It will be in the same art style as Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time, and will introduce a variety of new power-ups, locations, plants, zombies and more.

Story
Dr. Zomboss has grown fed up with the plants always vanquishing his zombie hordes, so he decides to leave Suburbia alone and instead focus on taking over the rest of world! With the help of the time-travelling caravan Penny, you and Crazy Dave chase the zombie scientist through 25 different countries in an attempt to stop him from accomplishing world domination.

Mechanics
Like in most Plants vs. Zombies games, sun will be provided depending on the location you’re at. If it’s at night, there will be no sun falling from the sky. If it’s during the day, sun will fall regularly. Sun is earned with a click of the mouse, and the varying sun sizes will determine how much you collect. Tiny sun will give you 20, small sun will give you 25, average sun will give you 50, and big suns will give you 75. At the end of every level, you can trade each 25 sun you still have in your sun bank for a single silver coin.

Coins also make a return in this game, and can be collected via killing zombies, earning money bags after beating or replaying levels, trading sun and lawnmowers at the end of each level, and playing other modes such as the Zen Garden, Online Arena and Challenge Carnival. They can be used in the Shop to buy plants and other items, or be used to activate the Family Tree power-ups. Alongside the normal gold and silver coins which give the player $100 and $50 respectively, Bronze coins give the player $10 and Gold bars, exceptionally rare collectibles, give the player $1000.

Lawnmowers will also be returning and will serve as the last line of defence before your house. When a zombie touches one, that lawnmower will be set off and will drive down the lane and kill any zombie that touches it. After driving off-screen, they will never return. When the level is over, like always, each lawnmower will turn into a single gold coin to be collected.

Like in the sequel and the Chinese game, there will be a level-up system where players can level up their plants and make them stronger. Like in the second game, plants can be upgraded to the maximum level of 10. The level-up system can boost plants by decreasing sun costs and recharge times, making them more efficient by increasing their attack rates, health, or even giving them special abilities, which add to their regular abilities. Levelling-up the plants requires players to collect plant pots for the Zen Garden. Growing a plant to full size will result in it growing to the next level. If a plant is levelled up to max, growing it in the Zen Garden to full size will allow it to automatically use its superpower when its first planted down, but only for one level.

Similar to the Power Mints in Plants vs. Zombies 2, World Tour introduces Family Trees which affect and provide boosts to plants that belong in their family. There are TBA Family Trees, and a new one can be bought for $20,000 in the Store. In the National Almanac, players can choose which three Trees they will take into levels and this selection can be changed at anytime. During the level, the Trees will be available on the bottom right of the screen similar to the power-ups in the second game. Activating a Tree costs money however, just click on one to spend $1,000 and it’ll temporarily activate its abilities and boost every plant that corresponds to their family on the lawn and make them use their superpower, but will take a long time to recharge afterwards. Family Trees can only be upgraded to level 5, and those upgrades will usually aid the Trees in boosting members of their family, lowering their own recharge time, adding in extra effects and more.

Fire attacks will do increased damage towards ice, snow and metal, and will be resisted by zombies in the water.

Electric attacks will do increased damage against metal and zombies in the water.

Poison and stunning clouds will not affect machine and vehicle zombies.

If a zombie farts via Chili Bean, and there is a Torchwood in the way of its gas cloud, the gas cloud will ignite all of the zombies in that lane and destroy the Torchwood there.

Endless Zones return in this game, but instead of going to a fresh new level at the start of each day, beating the level will keep the current defences in place, and will move to the next level similarly to the first game’s Survival Endless mode. At the beginning of each new level, if a plant has levelled up between waves, then they will automatically level up as soon as the match begins. Only three Family Trees can be brought into an Endless Zone, and once they are brought in, they can not be swapped out for others.

Game Modes
Adventure: Fight Dr. Zomboss across 25 different worldwide locations!

Zen Garden: Collect and grow plants from across the globe and make them stronger!

Shop: Buy cool power-ups, extra plants, bonus content and more!

Challenge Carnival: Play over 50 plant-tastic challenges that might just test your skills!

Online Arena: Design your own levels complete with extra challenges and unique zombies, put that level online, and then let people play them and rate them!

Endless Zone: Survive wave after wave of escalating zombie attacks while keeping your defences strong!

Locations
There are twenty-five locations available to play through in World Tour, not including the tutorial, and each location is set in a different country and has a unique set of plants, zombies, levels and mechanics. Aside from Antarctica, the player travels to all continents and visits four countries in each continent, and each continent is harder than the previous one.

Trivia

 * The name of the game was originally going to be called “Plants vs. Zombies: Around the World in 80 Brains” but the creator decided that it would not suit the game since, although both media products are about travelling around the world, there are more than 80 levels in the game, 80 locations would be difficult to design, and the name of the game is too long.
 * The name, Plants vs. Zombies: World Tour, is a reference to the Canadian animated TV series Total Drama World Tour, and shares the same subtitle.
 * The tv show and the fan game are both about travelling around to world, and in both media products the main protagonists travel to America, Canada, Brazil/Peru, Chile, China, Japan, England, Germany, Greece, Australia, Egypt and Africa.


 * This fan game will not actually be published because the creator is bad at game designing and digital art.
 * Racism will be the biggest thing that the creator is trying to avoid, and he will be doing the best he can to avoid racial stereotypes.