Of course, you'll grow to have your favourite characters and steer clear of the ones that don't really work for you. Garden Warfare 2 might not be perfectly balanced, but you'll never feel like you're at a major disadvantage against rival players. Every character's three core skills are available from the off, making for a slightly more level playing field. Heading into the Turf Takeover multiplayer playlist, you can enjoy a mix of Herbal Assault and Gardens & Graveyards, battling for territory across the game's expansive maps, of which there's a nice and varied selection.īeing able to import your characters across from the first game is also a nice touch, and mercifully there's no need to unlock each of their three abilities.

'Boss mode' might have been chucked in the bin (probably because no one bothered with it), but PopCap has gone to town in stuffing as much content into GW2 as humanly possible. Herbal Assault rounds out the suite of MP modes, but with changing end of match objectives and the variety of maps, any deja-vu you may have felt in the first game is a thing of the past in Garden Warfare 2. It's in multiplayer that you'll find a slew of modes including Garden Warfare staples Team Vanquish and Gardens & Graveyards, as well as game-types added to the first game as DLC, like Vanquish Confirmed, Suburbination and Gnome Bomb. Once you've dispensed with the solo missions, solo Garden or Graveyard Ops offers more single-player shenanigans (or you can round up some friends to tackle some co-op waves or play in local split-screen), although once again, you'll find that multiplayer is the main event. It's a neat distraction and the nutty reward of being able to voyage into Infinity to battle waves of Gnomes at the end of it all makes the endeavour worthwhile.

This takes the form of several missions based on the game's Garden and Graveyard Ops with AI buddies helping out, and a selection of special objectives.

Single-player, meanwhile, follows a lightweight story of sorts, as the Plants strive to become an Agent of L.E.A.F, while the Zombies fight to become Zomboss' Top Zombie. It's a great way to throw yourself headfirst into Garden Warfare 2's unfettered insanity. Raising the Flag of Power in the middle of the Battleground starts an infinite wave-based ruckus, battling hordes of minions and towering bosses.

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