Rock, Paper, Scissors has a report about a new mini-game in the upcoming World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion. Called "Peacebloom vs Ghouls", the mini-game is found in the Hillsbrad Foothills. There is no question that the game is based on PopCap's multi-platform title, Plants vs Zombies. There are six plants available through a series of quests. According to the YouTube video released by Cynical Brit, the XP is fairly high. Check it out!

Now I just need plants vs zombies on the cereal box and my life is complete!

And only 2 years after the game left the public eye because everyone had already played it. Way to be current Blizzard!

After you've done it once, its no longer fresh? Players will just do it another 2000000000 times just for the xp?

Looks like a better minigame than I've seen in any other MMO I've played.

Really, they should have added chess before this. Sitting in an Inn playing chess against another person in game would have been fun.

Originally posted by Emoqqboy

After you've done it once, its no longer fresh? Players will just do it another 2000000000 times just for the xp?

After you're done with the main questline, it turns into a daily. There are probably a lot of faster ways to gain xp in WoW than run over there, play a half hour mini-game and complete one quest.

This is awesome haha!

Say what you will about the minigame, but to me, this speaks volumes about how good their core game engine is.. It can incorporate so many things so well, it's ridiculous.

They could easily make an extra billion liscensing their engine to other MMO companies, I'd wager.

lol...coping Lineage II's ingame minigames (Beast Racing [think that's how it's refered to]). While I'm sure other MMOs had minigames before Lineage II; it's the only MMO I've played that had a minigame...built in :P

Originally posted by Dyner

lol...coping Lineage II's ingame minigames (Beast Racing [think that's how it's refered to]). While I'm sure other MMOs had minigames before Lineage II; it's the only MMO I've played that had a minigame...built in :P

 everquest had a bejeweled minigame when it came out....

Yeah, I read about this on MMO-champion. You know, the very same day it was released =P. As far as WoW news goes, that's the place to go for up to date information. Still, I've watched videos of it and it's absolutely amazing.

There's some bugs in the game, of course and there's definitely some obvious limitations with the game based on the engine alone; however, you couldn't ask for a cooler quest.

Just goes to show you that Blizzard isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty when making quests!

~Miles "Tails" Prower out! Catch me if you can!

Better call the game World of Realms cause its clear, they don't care about the lore. There has never been a Cataclysm, no Harisson Jones. I really liked PvZ but seriously playing a game just to play another game is stupid isn't it? Rather buy the original.

Originally posted by colddog04

Looks like a better minigame than I've seen in any other MMO I've played.

 

Really, they should have added chess before this. Sitting in an Inn playing chess against another person in game would have been fun.

Yeah, I agree. I would love to be able to play chess. Or maybe a PVP version like Wizard's chess from Harry potter and the Kharazan chess "boss" - that would be awesome....tough to implement but awesome.

Originally posted by TheHatter

What?

No Angry Birds?

No, that is copyrighted for GW2

Look out indy developers, Bilzzard will steal your ideas completely for their profits. =S

wtf?!

they have the time to implement this shit but can't get arround to adding 1 or 2 friken new pets for my warlock!

F U Blizzard, just  f u.

Why such negative reactions? This is just another pop culture reference... WoW is FULL of things like this everywhere you look. Also bear in mind that a lot of people might not have even heard of Plants vs Zombies and may be encouraged to check it out after something like this.

Personally I think it's a really cool little touch. It shows the developers are trying to be creative still, even if the idea is taken from elsewhere.

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Look out indy developers, Bilzzard will steal your ideas completely for their profits. =S

Or they'll work closely with indy developers and ask them for permission to use their design.

...and still the indy devs get the short end of the stick no matte what the deal is. Just saying.