Heavy Weapon
Heavy Weapon is the fourth mini-game in the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita versions of Plants vs. Zombies. It substitutes It's Raining Seeds, which is present in other versions.
Origins
The mini-game is based on PopCap Games' side-scrolling shoot 'em up game Heavy Weapon.
- The Peashooter is a single-shot.
- The Repeater and Threepeater are Spread-shot upgrades.
- The Doom-shroom is the nuke.
- The Torchwood is the Flak Cannon.
- The Cattail is the Homing Missile.
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Overview
The player will have control of a Lawn Mower with a peashooting plant on it where they will have to shoot all of the zombies. They can upgrade the Lawn Mower permanently into a Repeater, which will make it shoot peas in two directions, then to a Threepeater, which will make it shoot in three lanes, and then to a Cattail, which will then make it shoot homing spikes and can purchase two times more to shoot faster. Additionally, the player can buy a Torchwood, which will temporarily make all the player's peas fiery, a Doom-shroom, which the player can use normally, and a Snow Pea, which will temporarily make all the player's peas frozen. Also, any sun, coins, diamonds, and presents uniquely must be collected by the Lawn Mower.
Strategies
Try to purchase the Repeater upgrade as soon as possible to deal with the Basic Zombies that spawn more frequently, and then try to save up sun to purchase the threepeater upgrade. At the beginning only Basic Zombies will spawn but near the beginning of the first flag will contain multiple Pole Vaulting Zombies. Shortly after the first flag, Pogo Zombies will spawn. These aren't huge threats if you prioritize killing them immediately. Football Zombies begin spawning before the 2nd flag, these zombies can easily get rid of your lawnmowers so prioritize killing them at all costs! Once the second flag begins, a Gargantuar will spawn. If this zombie is in the top lane, you're better off letting it die to a lawnmower since the top lane is the hardest to defend. You can easily kill the Gargantuar with the torchwood upgrade, or by purchasing a doom-shroom. After that, two more Gargantuars will spawn after each other. It isn't recommended to purchase the cat-tail upgrade due to it often missing if you are moving. Use the Snow-pea upgrade to slow down enemies if they are getting too close to your lawn.
Related achievement
Trivia
- A Doom-shroom does not need a Coffee Bean to wake it up even though it is a mushroom, and the mini-game is set in Day. In this mini-game, Doom-shroom costs 200 sun, which is the total cost of a Doom-shroom (125 sun) and Coffee Bean (75 sun) during the day.
- When the player pays for the Doom-shroom, the explosion will always be in the middle of the screen. The player can use the Doom-shroom even if the crater is still present.
- This is possibly because the level might be harder if the player couldn't plant it on the crater.
- Heavy Weapon can be played even if the Cattail has not been purchased.
- It is the only level in the whole game in which Cattail doesn't upgrade from Lily Pad.
- Instead, it upgrades from the Peashooter on the Lawn Mower you control.
- When the player plants a Threepeater on the Lawn Mower, only one head will be seen.
- This may be because three heads on a Lawn Mower could total a higher width than it.
- In the PlayStation Vita version, the tilt feature works in this mini-game, allowing the player to collect items without needing to touch them with the lawn mower.
- Coins do not rotate when falling in this mini-game.
- This may possibly be because it would give sensitive players a mild seizure from watching, though it may just be a visual bug.
- A similar version is present as a Brain Buster called All by Oneself, from the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
- In this mini-game, Snow Pea and Torchwood are temporary upgrades, but they do not change the Peashooter's appearance in any way.
- The player can not aim the peas directly right or left, since zombies do not appear on the streetwalk.
In other langauges
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language | Name | Description |
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English | Heavy Weapon | |
Simplified Chinese | 重型武器 in Plants vs. Zombies Android TV |
Walkthrough
File:Plants vs Zombies Xbox 360 Heavy Weapon Minigame
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†: Strategy page |