Garden Warfare respects its roots by preserving its characters and their humor and skillfully adapting their charm to a third-person shooter. A few clever twists on the standard modes give the action some fresh personality, and the co-op survival mode is a fun homage to the original games.

Charming characters; Fun modes; Solid shooting; Good map design

Limited split screen

I'm suffering from shooter fatigue. I abandoned the genre once the video-game industry became oversaturated with drab, pseudo-realistic military skirmishes that I could only differentiate by the name on the game's packaging.

Incredibly fun shooting action; Surprisingly deep strategy; Addictive sticker system; Charming graphics and animation

Environments not very interactive; Local split-screen co-op requires Xbox Live Gold

. Killing zombies in video games has been a staple in gaming for as long as I can remember, but using Plants to do it? Well, that was definitely something that hadn't been done before. What set

+ Wonderfully wacky; + Fantastic customization; + Split-screen co-op; + Balanced multiplayer

- Unlocking characters is unnecessarily tedious; - Needs more co-op variety; - Only the primary profile gaining experience in co-op

Garden Warfare is a fun, polished shooter, and what it lacks in gameplay depth it more than makes up for with fun cosmetic gear you'll actually want to unlock.

Whimsical; charming visuals; Ample amount of unlockable content; Strong core gameplay

Some classes feel overpowered; Not enough multiplayer maps

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare seems like a Venn diagram in video game form, created only because EA suspected that there was an overlap between people who enjoyed cartoony iPad games and those who like team-based online shooters.

Planting my sunflower and wiping out three enemies in a single beam of light

Trying to stop any boss in the single-player mode

Also for the first time ever can play as the Plants or Zombies. It also has different characters like for the plants: Sunflower, Peashooter, Cactus, and Chomper. For the Zombies: Foot Soldier, Engineer, All-Star, and Scientist. If you don't have it yet you should definitely get it.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you know that zombies are the "it" thing right now. From The Walking Dead in graphic novels and on television to the ever-popular Left for Dead series, all things undead are in vogue.

The phenomenally successful Plants Vs. Zombies is a game I avoided until a girl I was dating withheld sex from me until I played it. It was pretty good. The game wasn't bad either. Plants Vs. Zombies has a weird charm to it.

It is seems a shame the game didna€?t launch before Christmas a€" on this evidence, with its kid-friendly content and rock-solid gameplay, it had the potential to have cleaned up, and help Microsoft move a bunch of additional Ones off the shelves in the process.

EA and PopCap Games have unleashed the craziest title so far in the Plants vs. Zombies franchise with Garden Warfare . The game utilizes the Frostbite 3 engine to produce one of the best presentations yet for the series packed full of excitement and zaniness.