Gardens & Graveyards

Gardens & Graveyards
Zombies fight to turn the Plants' gardens into Graveyards in an expanding map.
Classes available	All
Playable maps	See maps
Classes available	All
Playable maps	See maps

Gardens & Graveyards is a mode in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. It involves the fight between plants and zombies in control of the battlefield. The objective of the plants is that they must defend the gardens and prevent the zombies from capturing them all, while the objective of the zombies is to capture all the gardens to turn them into graveyards. This mode is similar to base capture from other games in the first-person shooter genre.

Description

A shot of an Engineer battling with the Sunflower in Gardens & Graveyards

Zombies fight to turn the Plants' gardens into Graveyards in an expanding map.

Maps

Every Gardens & Graveyards map in both games has two variants: a Daytime and a Nighttime version. The former has the entire map take place during the day with a bright, sunny setting, whereas the latter is set during the night with a much darker environment. It is implied that the daytime variant is the default setting for the maps, as the loading screens will only ever specify the time of day when loading the nighttime variant of a map. The layout, design, and gameplay of the maps remains the same between both variants; only the time of day changes.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Cactus Canyon: The Zombies have crash landed in the desert, near a top secret Plant research facility under the golf course. If the Plants don't stop them, they'll ruin everything!

Driftwood Shores: The Mega Flower is the guardian of the coast and the Zombies are trying to destroy it! Will the Plants be able to stop them?

Main Street: The Plants have deployed their secret weapon, the TACTICAL CUKE. Can the Zombies take it out before it launches and destroys Zomboss Mountain?

Wall-nut Hills: The Zombies just found out about Crazy Dave's sweet mansion and want to take it over. If the Plants can't stop them, Dave will be living on the streets!

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Seeds of Time: The time travel theme park was built in 1202 by a group of wizards that pooled their resources together in the hopes of making a fortune. Now the Zombies want it, because it's a fun place to be!

Great White North: Emerging from the depths below, the Zombies are launching an out attack on the Great White North. Can they free the Yeti King and usher in a new ice age?

Wall-nut Hills (Remastered): The Zombies just found out about Crazy Dave's sweet mansion and want to take it over. If the Plants can't stop them, Dave will be living on the streets!

Gallery

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  Cactus Canyon

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  Cactus Canyon Night

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  Driftwood Shores

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  Driftwood Shores Night

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  Main Street

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  Main Street Night

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  Wall-nut Hills

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  Wall-nut Hills Night

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  Seeds of Time

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  Seeds of Time Night

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  Great White North

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  Great White North Night

Strategy

Defensive

• Don't get caught off-guard: Zombies will be coming to take over your gardens, and getting yourself ready will help ensure the zombies will have a hard time taking over the garden.
• Shape the environment to your favor: Place means of practical cover, landmines, and weakening traps to make the zombies' advance harder and your defense easier. Heal Flowers placed strategically will help even more.
• Potted Plant Support: Potted plants, while weak alone, can be placed frequently to provide damage or tactical bonuses to the entire garden, and make some of the hardest zombie attacks much easier.
• Anti-Teleportation: Teleporters built by Engineers and their variants will bring zombies closer to the garden. Finding the location of the teleporter and destroying it will slow down the zombie horde.

Offensive

• Attack in waves: Wave-attacking makes each attack all the harder to take down.
• Soften up: Attacking from the skies makes a land-based push easier, and masking your approach will make the land assault harder to retaliate against.
• Summoned Zombie Aid: Individually, summoned zombies lack any power or ability. But when a swarm of them attacks a single garden, they are much harder to defend against. Sheer numbers can overwhelm even the most well-fortified gardens.
• Strongest for the last: Summon the best zombies when you are close to overtime. If a strong zombie such as an Outhouse Zombie gets into the garden after overtime, it will take a while for them to vanquish the zombie. Use this delay to keep the overtime going until you capture the garden.
• Portal Combat: If a teleporter has not been built by an Engineer yet, take his job. Building the teleporters at the objectives will teleport zombies closer to the garden, making it harder for the plants to defend.

End of game

Eventually, one side will achieve victory. The game ends when either a timer runs out or the zombies successfully captured the final garden. Either way, both sides calculate their score by adding coins earned in game with 200 coins for the plants and 100 coins for the zombies for each garden occupied for the team and, if all gardens are defended or if all gardens are captured, 1000 coins as a Perfect Win reward. Each map has a different number of gardens, so scores may differ. Also, the final garden capture objective is different than other gardens and is instead in the form of a minigame. If the timer runs out for capturing a regular garden while there is at least one zombie in that garden, the game will go into overtime until there are no zombies in the garden or it gets captured.

Related achievements (Garden Warfare only)

	The Astral Plane As an Engineer, Build 3 Teleporters in a session of Gardens & Graveyards

	Zombie Defense As an Engineer, Build 3 Zombot Turrets in a session of Gardens & Graveyards

	Zombot Removal As a Plant, Destroy 10 Zombot Turrets in Gardens & Graveyards

	No Teleporting Allowed As a Plant, Destroy 10 Teleporters in Gardens & Graveyards

	Plant Perfect As a Plant, Achieve a Perfect Win in Gardens & Graveyards

	Garden Weeder As a Zombie, Capture an Objective in Gardens & Graveyards

	Garden Tour Be on the Winning Team for 25 matches of Gardens & Graveyards

	Cousins Plant 5 plant pots in one game of Garden Ops or Gardens & Graveyards

	Zombie Friends Summon 5 Zombies in a session of Gardens & Graveyards

	Ahoy Matey Summon a Barrel Zombie and a Map Pirate Zombie in Gardens & Graveyards

	Legionnaire of Doom Plant a Doom-shroom, Bamboo Shoot, Fire Peashooter and Ice Peashooter in either Garden Ops, Taco Bandits or Gardens & Graveyards

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Gardens & Graveyards
Traditional Chinese	花園墓地爭奪戰
French	Jardins et cimetières
German	Gärten und Friedhöfe
Italian	Tombe e giardini
Japanese	Gardens & Graveyards
Polish	Ogrody i cmentarze
Brazilian Portuguese	Jardins e Cemitérios
Spanish	Jardines y cementerios

Trivia

• The zombies are given extra time to capture the first objective.
  • The same applies to the plants in Herbal Assault.
• If the zombie team captures all gardens and completes the final objective, the final tombstone will be bigger and have an X-shaped base to fit the final objective mark, along with a hologram of Dr. Zomboss cackling.
• This is the only game mode whose maps are not shared with other game modes.
  • The maps in this mode are also the biggest maps in the game.
• The quickest possible time for a Gardens and Graveyards game to last is 7 minutes.
• If the plant team successfully defends all gardens, the first garden will be replaced by a statue of Crazy Dave, accompanied by an audio clip of Crazy Dave speaking gibberish.
  • This statue is a golden version of the statue of Crazy Dave seen in Wall-nut Hills.

Specific to Garden Warfare 2

• If the player glitches out of the map and is able to see under the garden, the player can see the graveyard that spawns when the zombies take over the garden.

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