

This new hub world attempts to incentivise players to explore every nook and cranny in favour of monetary and treasure rewards that become available either through spending the game’s alternate currency (Stars), or playing the handful of mini games on the map. Here, the Backyard Battleground simply offers more of that in a big, open physical space. Looking back at the original Garden Warfare, it extended its play value with its somewhat exploitative customisation system led by an economy of card packs containing random class items and consumables. There are many secrets, collectibles, treasures, and hidden events that take place within this hub space of a suburban town rattled by personalised undead and angry flower buds. The Backyard Battleground itself appears to have received more care and consideration than the rest of what’s offered in Solo Ops, however it adds little substance to PvZ Garden Warfare 2. Everything here feels as if it was assembled by duct tape and glue, adding unnecessary bulk to a concept that stood well all on its own.

What largely consists of approaching objective markers, tapping the A button through lines of oversaturated humour, and shooting plant or zombie variants, is only punctuated by Garden Ops styled missions (or Horde mode), which can be accessed all on their own in the actual separate, and still very enjoyable, Garden Ops mode. It offers little more than mindless isolated missions, most of which lead you across the new Backyard Battleground where Garden Warfare 2 takes place. The game’s single player component, called Solo Ops, is painfully shallow. But while Respawn is looking to give Titanfall the Quantum Break treatment, PopCap wasn’t even remotely as ambitious with its added content to PvZ. We see this all the time with sequels, just as we’ve recently learned that Titanfall 2 will have both a single-player campaign and an accompanying television show. Filled with lists of single-player missions, excessive character unlocks and customisation options, and an open explorable town, there’s no shortage of things to do. Garden Warfare 2 certainly doesn’t have a content problem. But notice that the word “Better” isn’t provided, and the way I see it, there’s a good reason for that. Bigger!” is not wrong Garden Warfare 2 is indeed all of those things. Both the preserved personality from the original tower defense titles, and the surprisingly sound class-based formula as an online third person shooter made the original Garden Warfare a wildly successful $40 title.
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Zombies Garden Warfare began as a tight little experiment that offered an alternative to the militarised/futuristic first-person shooter space before the industry went full force into MOBA-styled hero shooters. Just as the franchise started in its humble beginnings, Plants vs.
