PLANTS VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE 2 PS4
PLANTS VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE 2 PLUS
PLANTS VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE 2 SERIES

His signature move? A cooler-than-cucumber somersault over enemies, hailing gunfire from above as he goes.Īnd on the zombie side? Well, Captain Deadbeard the zombie pirate has a cool musket that switches between shotgun and carbine modes, not to mention a parrot for reconnaissance and aerial attacks. Finally, Kernal Corn (see what they did there?) is a new assault troop packing dual cob-blasters and a beefy long-range missile. Rose is a fast-moving sorceress, able to become invulnerable to damage for short periods of a time, slow down zombies with a time snare or transform them into goats. The Peashooter, Sunflower, Chomper and Cactus all return, giving you basic assault, medic, melee and sniper troop types, but now they’re joined by three new plant stars.Ĭitron is a heavily-armed orange with a high-damage beam weapon and shield, not to mention the ability to transform into a ball and roll around the map. Nope, it’s the characters that make Garden Warfare.

In the Zomburbia map, the plants do their best to spoil a zombie graduation party. In the Seeds of Time map, for example, the endgame sees our two teams vying to push giant balls into plant or zombie holes. However, both modes now come with but a twist in the final zone.

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE 2 SERIES

The latter you’ll be familiar with from the original, with the plants defending a series of objectives against zombie assaults, but Herbal Assault spins that around with the plants attacking and the zombies defending.

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE 2 PLUS

Beyond simple team deathmatch there’s a fun bomb mode featuring explosive garden gnomes, plus the two Battlefield-esque large-scale modes, Herbal Assault and Gardens and Graveyards. Most are based on classic CoD or Battlefield game types, and some even refer directly it’s not hard to work out where Vanquish Confirmed got its name. It’s not really the modes that make Garden Warfare 2 special. Again, it’s nice to see the option to practice these solo with bots. And it’s here you’ll discover the multiplayer portal, enabling you to go straight to the various competitive modes. In each HQ you’ll also find a console to access each side’s Garden/Graveyard Ops mode another series of Horde-style missions, which you can enjoy solo with AI comrades, split-screen with another player or online with up to three friends. It’s a chance to get to grips with the core mechanics and the different characters – not to mention bag some loot and level up. Yet there’s some fun stuff going on here, whether you’re leading pint-sized zombies to a picnic or trying to break up a plant party. Raise a garden or a tomb, place junior plants or zombie bots in the pots or soil provided, then fight off wave after wave of foes. Even then there’s a tendency to rely on simple base defence missions. Sure, break it down, and each is little more than a series of matches against CPU-controlled enemies, broken down with the odd search or fetch quest. Solo content? It turns out that both the plants and the zombies have their own parallel campaigns, following the valiant veg on a career in tactical espionage action and the brains-obsessed zombies on a mission to make it to the top of Doctor Zomboss’s team. At either end sits the plant and zombie HQs, where you can change character, switch sides and get stuck into rest of the game’s solo content. This ‘Backyard Battleground’ is Garden Warfare 2’s central hub, open for exploration with activities scattered through, including some addictive target-shooting mini-games and a simple variant of the classic Horde/Firefight game style. After a short opening cinematic you’ll find yourself a sunflower on the wrong side of town – or Zomburbia as the locals call it. All the same, it might be a while before you notice. It’s still primarily an online multiplayer game, pitching teams of walking, blasting vegetation against teams of grey-skinned, goggle-eyed morons. There’s no three-month wait here for the rest of the package to be released. Perhaps the biggest surprise about this sequel is that, after the patchy releases of other big-name shooters – Star Wars: Battlefront and Splatoon, we’re looking at you – this one launches feeling complete. Well, Garden Warfare 2 is a bigger, better version, complete with more characters, more maps and more modes. Maybe the original didn’t get the respect it deserved – too bright, too cartoony, too tied to casual mobile games – but in its character-based gameplay and witty appropriation of CoD clichés, it was a seriously smart online shooter. With Garden Warfare 2, it’s time to stop treating the Plants vs.

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE 2 PS4

Available on Xbox One, PS4, PC (Xbox One and PS4 versions tested)

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