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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Plants vs. Zombies is digging into the trenches with an explosive new 3D experience. Blast zombies, plants, and new characters with inventive weapons across a mine-blowing PvZ world. Take on Co-Op and Multiplayer action with your friends and sow the seeds of victory!
Details
- Released
- February 18, 2014
- Developer
- PopCap Games
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Reviews
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What seemed like a joke ended up being a well balanced, fun to play, class based ,third person, crazy all out war between plants and zombies! Highly recommended if you enjoy multiplayer games or the PvZ universe!
Years of cultivation at PopCap Games has led to the growth of its latest title, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. This series has long been known as a popular tower defence title – however, the developer has now planted its roots into new soil by changing the format slightly. As its Call of Duty spoofing name may indicate, this fuses tower defence with third-person gunplay, allowing you to take control of plants in order to protect small gardens of flowers from the undead.
There’s a co-op mode in play, but the AI is challenging enough that, if anything, it’s more difficult than the competitive online play. So what I’m saying here is while this game might have the look and feel of a “family friendly” shooter, the reality is that the people playing it are of a standard to make it one for the shooter veterans who want a change of scenery from the brown wasteland battlegrounds.
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare is fun in its purest form.
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare delivers an action experience in a massive 3-D world. The title features four-player co-op and 24-player competitive modes. Blast zombies, plants and characters across an animated PvZ landscape.
Graphics: 8.0 Gameplay: 7.8 Sound: 7.8 Control: 7.5 Replay Value: 8.1 Online Gameplay: 8.3 Overall Rating: 7.9 Publisher: EA Developer: PopCap Number Of Pla ...
Sprawling battlescapes, the clatter of small arms, thunderous mortar fire—all things we expect from our Call of Dutys and Battlefields, not so much from developer PopCap, creators of Bejeweled and Peggle. Not only does Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare deliver the grandiose spectacle of combat endemic to its blockbuster cousins, it manages to take the same game modes, upgrade tracks, and classes
Despite its lack of modes, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a well-designed shooter that puts a fresh spin on the zombie game and will be fun for all ages.
There's fun to be had here, but it feels like a nice change of pace rather than a long-term alternative.
“Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare injects some fresh ideas into its multiplayer shooting, but PopCap Games' lack of genre experience is apparent.”
There are some small gripes that have held this game back just a little. There were some issues trying to connect to or stay in a game at times. This appears to be minor as it doesn’t happen all the time but when it does it is frustrating. At times, an extended play session would result in getting booted from the game just prior to the end which would make all of the coins that had been earned lost forever. Other times the game just refused to let an entire party join the same game. This was by far the most frustrating encounter and forced us to all give up after half an hour or so.