Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare Review

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Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is a family friendly multi-player third-person shooter and tower defense video game developed by PopCap games and published by Electronic Arts.

Any gamer knows the EA has been through some financial trouble over the past three years with several games being received poorly by consumers thus causes low revenue.  With that being said Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare is an attempt to tap into a broader audience and give EA a chance to reclaim their competitive edge in the gaming market.

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare isn't your typical multi-player online shooter with comical zombie and plant skins.  The game stands alone as a fast-pace action shooter but adds an interesting aspects with each character having funny kill animations and attributes that add difficulty to the gameplay.  Working together utilizing each characters abilities strength adds to the success of each team strategy on the battlefield.  The combat fought across well designed maps with 12 on 12 teams made of class based characters/soldiers to select from.

Each character has it own set of abilities that adds depth and difficulty to the combat of the Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare.  The customization of each character adds another level of depth to the gameplay.

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare consist of four modes:

• Garden Ops: A cooperative mode where up to four players take control of each of the plants defending a garden through ten zombie waves, with the fifth and tenth waves being boss waves.
• Team Vanquish: A team death match variant.
• Gardens and Graveyards: A game mode is a parody of conquest and rush mode from Battlefield where players will either capture (as zombies) or defend (as plants) various objectives.
• Mixed Mode: A game mode where both Team Vanquish and Gardens and Graveyards mode is used interchangeably.

Stickers packs and coin system present another time consuming challenge to gamers that enjoy the farming aspects of leveling up. The coins are hard to come by because there are no micro-transactions in the game, so you can't buy the coins. You have to put your pods into the soil and work your butt off to earn the coins in each combat campaign. Once you purchase and open the sticker packs, you can find new characters and customizing abilities.

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is a fun time for gamers of all ages with its share of challenges that will keep you interested.  The customization aspects mixed with wide selection of different character classes with keep gamers interested in playing the game just to see the variance in performance and attributes.  Also, there is a leveling up system that unlocks new abilities that will be an allure to gamers that like to spend time farming.  Overall, for the audience intended Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare hits all the points it needs to in order to successful.  It's worth a play even for the older crowd, so I give Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare an 8/10.