Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare (Xbox One)

I'm a 23 year-old female and I absolutely love this game. I've had it for about a month and I've played it almost every day. There are several game modes -Garden Ops - A single-player game in which you are one of the plants, and attempt to fight off the zombie horde while trying to defend your "garden" (base), also using potted plants who are essentially weaker, static allies with various skills who will also attack the zombies. This mode can also be played as a multiplayer over Xbox Live Gold with randomly-selected players, or as a Split Screen mode, giving 3 different experiences.Then there are the Multiplayer levels. My favourite is the Gardens & Graveyards mode. You either play one of the aforementioned plants or as the zombies. If you're the plants then your job is to defend the garden using potted plants and your teammates while the zombies try to "claim" your garden by having more of them stood at the base than plants. The zombies win if they attack all the bases, and can "raise" extra, weaker zombies to help. At the end of each map is a special, unique objective. It's a little like "Rush" in Battlefield. If the zombies win then the plants fall back to another base and the map expands, maybe 5 bases altogether. Another is in which both sides compete equally to have control of a bomb in the shape of a gnome, and have to place it in one of the other teams 3 bases - if all 3 bases explode then the other team wins.The gameplay and replay value are further enhanced by the sticker system. In each game you earn coins, on average is about 10,000 coins per completed game. These can be spent on consumables such as the potted plants to use as support for the playable characters if you're playing as a plant, and extra zombies you can "raise" as a zombie main character. You can also purchase additional upgrades for the plants and zombies, and things like hats, glasses, beards, tattoos to customize your plants and zombies. However, you can't just pick which ones you want! You purchase packets of "stickers" and can't know what's inside them until you purchase. Rarer character customizations and upgrades are of course less likely to appear.Two negatives which resulted in only 4 stars.- The microphone doesn't work. In one month's play I have only been able to both hear and speak to other players on maybe 5 or 6 occasions. Most of the time they can't hear me or I can't hear them, I can't tell. Never played with people I'm friends with on Xbox so I'm sure that speaking to members of a party over Xbox, rather than EA's servers on this game, would work better. EA have acknowledged this as their problem.- The first time I installed it I played the tutorial mini-game as it downloaded and the game wouldn't work. I had to delete and then re-install which overall took 4 hours. Google says it's a common problem so don't launch the game at all until its 100% downloaded!

We saw the in-game footage and thought not for us. There are very few co-op games on Xbox1 where the main adversary is the game's artificial intelligence - the computer. We are OAP's and love first /third person shooters BUT we cannot compete with younger players in the multi-player environment. Our reactions are simply too slow.Against our better judgement, or so we thought, we bought PvZ for the co-op 'horde' mode. It really is fun. It's Gears of War in fancy dress. We can't believe that we have serious discussions about whether to be a sunflower or a peashooter, which plants are best for which plant pots, and calling out "I need a daisy here"As the game progresses it becomes clear that this it has a very complex upgrading and scoring system to match any 1PS. Tactics too need to be considered, Chompers on roof tops are really useless and the garlic drone, part of Cactus's armoury, is very difficult to manage.We've even tried the multi-player and as the game is played by the very young and it is not intended to be serious, we sometimes are not in the last few, in score terms, on our team.If anyone out there fancies playing co-op campaign's with two OAP's then just ask me a question about this game and let me have your gamer tag. I'll be in touch through Xbox Live.

I have never written an Amazon review before, but after experiencing the disaster that is Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare for Xbox One I felt compelled to warn other parents of the issues with this product.First and foremost is the need to buy a Gold Subscription. Yes, it states as such on the Amazon site, but when you just click on the multi-buy options that Amazon very cleverly offers one doesn't tend to read the small print. My fault, I should research the purchases more carefully.Second is the need for EA Accounts to play. Doesn't sound like much of a problem, but trust me, setting up EA accounts for the kids is a royal pain. You have to have your good old fashioned PC to hand to download the Origin software (yep, 1980's style fat client) to create "underage" accounts (as they call them in EA world). Funny, I thought the world was moving away from client-side software. EA Games are obviously still in the dark ages there...Third issue is that it's only single player. So you go through all the hassle of buying Xbox Gold, setting up two child accounts, only to find that only one of them can play. I mean - how insane is that? In 2015? Even my Atari console from 1985 allowed two players. We seem to have regressed to 1960's technology here.So - if you are a parent who has kids who like playing Plants vs Zombies on their tablets and are thinking of perhaps buying this title for an XBox then DO NOT buy this product. It will result in frustration, disappointment and a wasted £35. I am going to ask Amazon for a refund as I do not believe they advertise it correctly.

I first would like to say don't listen to the Sony Fanboys saying the game is rubbish they have not even played it look for the verified purchase to make sure that the person has the game.Game play is great beginners can play but the game has alot to offer for the pro's its 3rd person over the shoulder and great cartoon graphics lots to unlock around 300 Hours of stuff and does not focus so much on you win or loser it more about the experience and fun the game offers don't get me wrong winning has great bonuses but you can get more than the winning team and have lots of fun either way.9/10This is coming from a Pro Gamer.