Slowly making my way across the map, I could take out swaths of enemy plants with ease.

Running and bouncing around while popping off headshots was great fun, but once I dropped in the Z-Mech it became a whole new story. The biggest changes come from the characters, with the Imp becoming a fast favorite for me. The gameplay has certainly changed, but not in a significant enough manner that fans will be upset, at least not in this gamemode.

Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, I quickly felt right at home. Jumping into Graveyard Ops, the first of nine gamemodes planned for Plants vs. Players will be able to buy sticker packs just like before, and create their own take on the already great characters. I’d say they’re passing the test so far.Īnd, of course, the customization options are back for Garden Warfare 2 “in a massive way” according to Vanhoozer.

He said that they go through something called the “action figure test”, which asks whether they look good enough that players will want to buy a figure of them. I asked Senior Creative Director Jeremy Vanhoozer how they go about designing new ones for the series. Colonel Corn was the guy in the trailer with gatling corn hands, so he should be a fan-favorite.Īll of the new characters look fantastic, as usual. Rose, a literal rose, is an all seeing sorceress, who uses magic attacks to take down the zombie horde. Citron is a cyber punk bounty hunting orange, which functions as the counterpart to the Z-Mech. On the plant’s side come a few new characters as well. This seemingly simple story shift is enough to totally change the game, putting the zombies on defense, with the plants attacking for a change. Suburbia is now totally taken over by the zombie army, turning it into Zomburbia. The plants have finally lost their battle against the zombies, and their leader, the Zomboss. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is sort of a post-post apocalyptic world. In just my short time with the game, it felt like they were delivering on that promise. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, with Senior Creative Director Jeremy Vanhoozer promising that it takes everything they learned from the first game and makes it even better. I sat down at the Xbox Media Showcase to chat with Jeremy and check out the game’s newly announced Graveyard Ops mode, trying out one of the new zombie characters at the same time.

Now, Popcap is heading back to the series with Plants vs. However, great character design, combined with some fantastic mechanics to turn the franchise on its head and create a new great entry. Taking the simple, but ridiculously fun tower defense title and turning it into a class-based third-person shooter seemed like an odd choice. Zombies: Garden Warfare sort of came out of nowhere when it launched in early 2014.

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