The latest version of Plants vs. Zombies Online was released at 10 a.m. Yenching time the day after it was completed.

This update adopts the technical method of hot update, players do not need to re-download and install the entire game, but after launching the game, the game directly downloads the new game materials and updated content online, so as to ensure that all players connected to the network must complete this update, unless he has been playing the game in stand-alone mode in an offline state.

For users who are already in the game, the backend will automatically update when the player is playing, and it will automatically load at the end of the game, and then the user can experience the latest version of the game content.

From this time period on, players around the world have successively experienced the new "Plants vs. Zombies Online", with new maps, new plants, new zombies, and new systems, which brought players a huge surprise.

Chinese players were pleasantly surprised to find that in the latest "Plants vs. Zombies Online", there were Chinese-style maps, as well as zombies unique to Chinese folklore! This is really surprising, because up to now, no one has ever integrated the zombies of Chinese folklore into the game, and the cartoonized zombies are not only not scary at all, but also give people a particularly cute feeling.

Even for Chinese players, they haven't seen new elements about "Chinese zombies" for a long time, after all, Hong Kong zombie films have long passed the golden age, and there are no new films produced so far.

Seeing the familiar scene, the familiar and unique zombie shape, Chinese players are almost all praised, to a certain extent, there is a special cultural complex, after all, this is our own folklore, just like the zombies and vampires in the West, zombies and vampires can become game elements, and Chinese zombies should also be able to, and Makino Technology has achieved this.

The familiar and already somewhat unfamiliar zombie elements have struck again, so that many netizens have rekindled their love for zombie movies, in the disc rental stores on the streets and alleys, zombie movies are almost all rented, and all kinds of zombie movies are also playing on TV, and the ratings are surprisingly high, and even Lin Zhengying, who was originally deserted, has become a big hit in the star post bar because of this nostalgic heat, and the people's love for zombie movies seems to have returned to more than ten years ago......

When foreign users, that is, players using non-Chinese language versions, update the game, the game has a simple hint in the Huaxia map level, informing them that the design of the map is derived from the unique architectural style of China, and the zombies in the game are a kind of Chinese folklore, collectively known as China-Zombie (Huaxia Zombie).

Eastern and Western cultures aside, only in Plants vs. Zombies Online In this game, the modeling design of the Chinese zombie is much better than the original Western zombie, although the visual modeling of the original Western zombie is not terrifying, but it is not cute, at most it feels stupid, but the modeling design of the Chinese zombie can really make overseas players shine, their clothes are very special, the posture is also very special, the skin color is not the gray and black of the Western zombies, but pale yellow, the forehead of the talisman flutters with the zombie's jump, overseas players do not understand its use, but there is always a sense of mystery when it looks at it.

For overseas users, as a whole, there will be no rejection of Chinese elements, on the contrary, these special ethnic designs, but also bring them a full sense of exoticism, these people before today's update of the game, most of them don't know that there is such a thing as a Chinese zombie, but just a few hours, people all over the world know about the Chinese zombie, understand the shape of the Chinese zombie, and the unique setting of their walking and jumping.

Most importantly, they do not hate this element, on the contrary, they gradually like these very special and interesting images and settings, and even many overseas users openly discuss Chinese zombies on the Internet, they search and collect various legends of Chinese zombies, and translate them into Chinese, and popularize science to netizens in their own countries on the online platform.

Why do they wear special robes? Because they wear the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty in China, these official uniforms actually have a lot of exquisiteness, from the first rank to the ninth grade, the clothes worn by officials have strict requirements;

Why do they have a strange yellow paper on their foreheads? That's because there is a profession in Chinese legends that specializes in dealing with this kind of zombies, they are called Dao Chang, this kind of yellow paper is called Fu Seal, it is one of their weapons, it has a very special effect, of course, in this game, it is the plant that attacks the zombie and not the Tao Chang, so this Fu Seal may just be a design element;

This is not because there were many zombie-themed movies in Hong Kong, and in the setting of Hong Kong movies, zombies were all jumping forward one by one, so in China, the zombies in everyone's impression are bouncing like this;

In addition, many people found screenshots of various Hong Kong zombie movies and put them on the Internet to popularize science for netizens, which further attracted users' curiosity about Chinese zombies, and many people said on the Internet that it would be great if they could get one or two Hong Kong zombie movies to watch.

The entire Western world, even Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, has set off a wave of discussion about Chinese zombies because of the revision of "Plants vs. Zombies Online".

No one expected that Hong Kong zombie films failed to break out of the Chinese region despite their best efforts, and even in Southeast Asia, it did not bring any repercussions, but "Plants vs. Zombies Online", a popular game around the world, only took a few hours to send the concept of Chinese zombies to players around the world.

This has caused a great shock in the Hong Kong film industry, and many investors, directors and actors in the Hong Kong film industry are sighing that Makino Technology has completed the cultural output that Hong Kong films have not been able to achieve for more than ten or twenty years in a few hours, which is really impressive.

Zombie films have not been able to leave the Chinese area for 20 years, which is also a typical phenomenon of global cultural export in recent years, our people know too much about Western culture, but Western people know very little about our culture.

In the Chinese world, we three-year-old children know about Western vampires, know that they have long fangs, are nocturnal, and live by sucking human blood, and even know that ordinary people will become vampires as long as they are bitten by a vampire.

However, few Westerners know that there is also a kind of zombie in China, they are ordinary people after death because of some special reasons, such as the resentment before death is too heavy, or the burial place is too heavy yin, etc., on the night of the full moon, after the corpse change, the corpse in the coffin will become a bouncing zombie, they can't see, but the sense of smell is sensitive, afraid of glutinous rice, afraid of red thread, afraid of black donkey hooves and black dog blood, and even more afraid of the zombie Taoist's peach wood sword and corpse talisman.

Our young people regard Western Valentine's Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas as meaningful festivals, sending flowers on Valentine's Day, eating apples on Christmas Eve, and opening a room with girlfriends on Christmas, but young people in the West don't even know much about our Spring Festival, and as for traditional festivals such as Qixi Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, few Westerners know about it;

Classic romance movies like "Titanic" can sweep the whole of China, so that everyone in China knows and knows about it, but domestic films like "Farewell My Concubine", although they won the Cannes Award abroad, the box office in the United States adds up to only more than five million US dollars.

We know too many big Western stars, have watched too many of their movies, and heard too many of their songs, but the Chinese movie stars that Western audiences know are really influential, except for Li Xiaolong, Cheng Long, and Li Lianjie, there is basically no one.

This is the huge asymmetry in cultural exports, and in this regard, the United States is like a country with a huge trade surplus, while we are a country with a huge trade deficit, even to the point where the other side is treating it as a dumping market.

It is precisely because of the perennial asymmetry of cultural output that this update of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is of great significance in the eyes of people in the Chinese cultural industry.

Among them, the most shocked is the Hong Kong film industry.

In the 8th and 90s, a large number of zombie movies emerged in Hong Kong, from Lin Zhengying to Hung Jinbao and Wuma, these excellent Hong Kong actors made great contributions to the prosperity of zombie films.

However, zombie films have been excessively squeezed in Hong Kong, where the film industry is booming, and bad movies from all walks of life are rampant, so that later, audiences in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the mainland have seen enough of this type of film, and the market space has plummeted.

There is another very important reason for this, that is, after the death of Lin Zhengying, there is no real benchmark character in zombie films.

Although Hong Jinbao made zombie movies in the early years, he quickly embarked on the path of mainstream movies, and supporting roles like Wu Ma are also very wide in the Hong Kong film industry.

Nowadays, there are almost no new zombie-themed movies in Hong Kong, and this kind of theme is rarely touched in the mainland, everyone treats zombie movies as old semiconductor radios, throws them in the trash or storage room, and puts their energy into more advanced TVs and computers, and only a few nostalgic people will occasionally take them out and listen to them

Many people in the film industry found that the update of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" caused a lot of repercussions and strong recognition overseas, and realized that this could be a good opportunity for Hong Kong zombie films to take this super hitchhike to all over the world!