![]() However, the main criticism of Garden Warfare is ultimately its lack of depth. It’s a neat and no doubt tongue-in-cheek response to the accusation of forcing microtransactions on players – a black cloud that permanently hangs over EA’s reputation. Upgrades and add-ons are available through in-game “card packs”, designed to look like Topps trading cards and which grant you boosts, costume changes, coins to buy unlocks and the like. Each round is fast and frenetic but the controls are tight and responsive, meaning that it does not take long to get to grips with manoeuvring your chosen dude around a given zone. There are spins on Capture the Flag, Vanquish, King of the Hill, Deathmatch and so on, several of which borrow templates from EA stablemate Battlefield and jazz them up with slapstick weaponry and farting noises. Two teams compete in generously sized arenas in a variety of modes. The core gameplay should be familiar to anyone who has spent any time in the company of a console. The sound is also particularly strong: voice effects are as silly as you would expect and the music is reminiscent of toned-down Tom Waits songs about graveyards and undertakers and bone machines – minus the bourbon and cigarettes, of course. Now finally released for Sony consoles, these characters are rendered in glorious, pin-sharp HD where the garish level design and animations burst with life. Further, the zombies remain as silly as before: undead quarterbacks, mad professors, soldiers and construction workers all jostle for attention on the screen. In a virtual world of grunting, pumped up marines, the sight of anthropomorphic cacti and Venus fly-traps make for a very welcome palate cleanser. Garden Warfaresucceeds largely by virtue of its difference. ![]() ![]() How exactly would the off-the-wall (lack of) sensibilities of the source material translate to the online multiplayer arena dominated by brash, thuggish COD clones? However, when developers PopCap Games announced that they were making a third-person shooter in the same well-tapped vein as Gears Of War (Epic, Multi), more than a few eyebrows were raised. Whereas so many other games featuring the shambling undead were morose affairs, PvZ was brightly coloured, cartoonish and genuinely funny. One of the original tower defence games, it combined easy to learn, hard to master strategy with a deliciously gonzo sense of humour. Zombies became a genuine phenomenon after being ported to nearly every handheld device and console on the market.
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