Plants vs Zombies 2 It's About Time Gets Far Future Update

A couple of days ago highly anticipated update has finally been released in Plants vs Zombies 2. The 4th world called "Far Future" is finally here along with a lot of major updates and new additions and much much more to add to the overall playability of the game.

The Far Future world takes place in the 24th century when the zombies manage to advance greatly in technology as well as science and created brand new gadgets and machinery to aid them in their war against our plants to have a feast with our brains! This new world can be unlocked by using the World Key that you will receive after beating Day 8 in the previous worlds. Of course you can also pay about $4.99 to unlock it.

But don't be afraid, our garden has got some great advantages to tackle all these new zombies types. Our garden will have tiles with special colourful symbols attached to them. Let me give you a quick example. Let's say we put two Peashooters on the tiles marked with the green X. When we use a plant food on one of those plants, the other one will also take advantage of it after the initial boost is completed. Simply, the first plant that we used our plant food on will receive the buff and start shooting an array of peas. After the first Peashooter completes this given buff, the second Peashooter will also receive the buff and start shooting. So ultimately you will only use one plant food to buff two or in some levels even more than two plants. But again these plants must be on their respective tiles that share the same symbol.

Apart from these tiles we will also have a selection of 7 brand new plants to choose from that will give us a distinct advantage against 12 new zombie types. For example a Laser Bean plant will help us pierce through the heavy armor of shield bearing zombies.

One other major addition in the game is Zen Garden. I am glad we finally got back our Zen Garden which was one of my favourite features from the original game. During gameplay, zombies now have a chance to drop seeds that can be used to plant in our Zen Garden. After plantation we water them and wait for them to grow. After we grow them we can earn coins from them and we can also grow new special bonus plants that can only be used for one level.

However this is where the in-app-purchases will show its dominance over players. Because with the addition of Zen Garden, there is also a new currency implemented in the game called gems. These gems can be used to speed up plant growth and to unlock new pots to plant more seeds. When we water a plant it will start a timer of approximately 15 minutes till it requires watering again. You can use these gems to remove that timer over and over again until your plant is fully grown. Of course these gems can only be bought with your real life money. I am not sure yet if there is a slight chance of a gem drop from a zombie but we will see. I haven't seen one drop yet though and I wouldn't count on it if I were you.

The new world has only just been added to the game but there is already a shadowed world right next to it. Looks like PopCap has already started working on the 5th world and word has it that this 5th world will be called "Dark Ages" and as the original players can understand from its name, we will have our mushrooms back! Remember the Night levels in the original game? It was dark so we could receive sun power from Sunflowers only. Thus we were given a chance to use mushrooms for a much less sun power than regular plants to make up for that extra sun power loss. There was even a mushroom that cost 0 sun power! I already can't wait for this new world!

This new update has made me really happy. If you have read my full review of the Plants vs Zombies 2 It's About Time, you will know that I thought the game was lacking both in diversity of zombies and plants, and overall game experience as gameplay was starting to get incredibly routine after a couple of levels. There also weren't a lot of other extra things to do either. However, now with the introduction of Zen Garden and lots of new plants alongside a plethora of new zombies, the game will become much more diverse in terms of almost everything! Now, I've got my fingers crossed for a chance to actually play with the zombie side for once in the 5th world! Here is to hoping...