Last year, the announce trailer at E3 sparked one of the loudest uproars from any of the game launches I'd been to. I just knew this was going to be a strange and fantastic collaboration between PopCap and EA.

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.

Not a five star title by any means. Has some definate entertainment value. This is kind of a modern warfare meets supermario mix. Animated cartoon like war betwen plants and zombies. Complete vs. battles or indurance to earn coins and upgrade abilities/ weapons.

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare delivers an action experience in a massive 3-D world. The title features four-player co-op and 24-player competitive modes. Blast zombies, plants and characters across an animated PvZ landscape.

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.

No one, I'd wager, played either of the Plants vs Zombies tower defense titles and said "this is good, but it would be better as a class-based online third-person shooter". Conceptually, Garden Warfare shouldn't work. When I first started playing, it felt like maybe it didn't work.

. 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

I would like to take a second and clear something up. This game does not have a free-to-play monetization system. Everything is unlocked in game, and there is no, I repeat NO items at launch to purchase for real money.

I don't recall ever thinking as I played Plants vs. Zombies on the PC that it would make the perfect third-person shooter, but that's precisely how I responded to the first trailer for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare .

'Garden Warfare' is beautiful, sounds great and it plays pretty well too. PopCap doesn't push any boundaries from a gameplay standpoint. That's understandable; this first installment is more evolutionary than revolutionary. The fact that it all works so well is impressive enough.