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Plants vs. Zombies 2

2013 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a tower defense video game developed by PopCap Games and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to Plants vs. Zombies, and was released worldwide as a free-to-play game on the Apple App Store on August 15, 2013, and Google Play on October 2, 2013. The player defends the lawn from zombies by placing a variety of plants. The player must battle the zombies in different time periods, featuring Ancient Egypt, the Golden Age of Piracy, the Wild West, the 24th century, the Early Middle Ages, the 1980s, the Last Ice Age, Mesoamerica, the 1960s, the Jurassic Period, and the present.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Plants, Zombies and video is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Plants vs. Zombies 2” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.