No, it’s not a joke. I remixed “Plants vs Zombies” main theme to be super-epic orchestral stuff with distorted guitars. More like an experiment, but a very serious experiment, to see how a tune can change when you go orchestral, then distorted guitars, then even harmonize your own way without checking what the original chords were.
https://soundcloud.com/manfromspace/plants-vs-zombies-orchestal
Main tools used here were Spitfire Audio Originals Strings and Brass plus Native Instruments Electric Sunburst, Drumlab and Kinetic Toys for the melody.
That was fun.