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