What’s With The Second Plants vs. Zombie Games?

It took me a little while to get used to it because it is quite a bit different than the original 2d plants vs. zombie games. There are a few different modes of play and I think so far I prefer the 4 player co-op mode called "Garden Ops" the best. All of them are a 3rd person shooter style game. They all require Xbox live gold membership because you are always playing with other people online. For the Garden Ops mode you will always play as plants. You will have 3 other plant team members.

You can choose from any combination of the following: a pea shooter, cactus, sunflower, and chomper. Each has their own unique abilities. You will fight against 10 waves of zombie attacks and finally try to successfully reach the loading zone where crazy Dave will after a certain amount of time fly everyone away to safety for the win. Over time you need to level up your plant in order to become stronger. Leveling up can get pretty hard even at level 4. If you want to get super competitive plan on spending a lot of time doing the different difficult tasks to level up to a high level. There are different difficulty settings you can choose too. You may be stuck on easy or normal difficulty until you level your plants up quite a bit. I'm finding that you can't exclusively level up in the 4 player co-op mode which is irritating. Some of the tasks to level up require you to vanquish or kill of a certain number of players.

You can not achieve this in co-op mode because you're all on a team and it is impossible to vanquish a player. So you must go to the 24 player multiplayer action mode to finish those tasks. It's not so bad though since the games go relatively quickly and can still be a lot of fun. In this mode you play as either plants or zombies. The zombie team has 4 choices as well each with unique abilities. Football player, foot soldier, scientist, and engineer. When you play this mode expect to get your a$$ beat because there are many other players at much higher levels which can make it somewhat difficult to level up during the earlier stages. Still fun trying but can get frustrating at times. I really really do hope that they come out with a one player co-op mode where you can just play against the computer somehow. The way you do not have to have Xbox live to play the game. Sometimes I just want to play a computer anyway. Overall, still loads of fun and I would still recommend it.