Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

So, it's just that thorny little issue of balance, then. While this isn't quite in the upper echelon of shooters, it's certainly better than most - a deeper, more satisfying and consistently entertaining game than Star Wars Battlefront even - and with a few fixes it will keep an audience happy for a long time to come. They really need to do something about that Rose, though.

Under its attractively bright and cartoony art style, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 has a great amount of modes and customization options to enjoy, whether alone against the AI or with online allies and enemies. The interesting abilities options...

EAWe loved Plants Vs Zombies.It was one of the first big releases on the Xbox One and PS4 a couple of years back.And it impressed with its different take on a tired first-person shooter genre.Although ultimately there just wasn't enough to it to last...

Multiplayer (see all)Garden Ops and Graveyard OpsReady the Peashooters and prepare for the craziest, funniest shooter in the universe: Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2. Dr. Zomboss has conquered Suburbia and transformed it into a zombie-filled,...

Garden Warfare 2 is active and engaging throughout. Finding challenges to take on, even when you don’t want to play online, is easy, and everything feeds into your leveling and unlocks regardless of where you are playing. The new classes add worthwhile abilities (and character designs), the new modes keeping things moving (and are often weird), and the combat is interesting, without venturing into the cumbersome or complicated.

If Garden Warfare was an attempt to make a multiplayer-only shooter that just about anyone could enjoy, Garden Warfare 2 takes that a step further by removing the original's budget-priced compromises. Making the original PopCap concept into a shooter isn't novel anymore, and I hope that the developers pay attention to the game's potential balance challenges over time to make sure that "asymmetric" doesn't become "lopsided." But Garden Warfare 2 stands strong on its own, and with friends.

It also doesn’t help that Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is online-only, which means you won’t even be able to access the solo mode without logging into EA’s servers. Still, it’s the co-op and multiplayer you buy a Garden Warfare game for, and what Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 offers finally lives up to the promise of the original game. It is indeed bigger, badder, bigger.

Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is gloriously silly in the best way possible and excels at a grass-roots level thanks to some of the tightest gameplay around.Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 was reviewed by Darryn Bonthuys on a Xbox OneIndustry...