But EA have learned a lot from their years of horrible monetisation, and I'd hoped. The second game is still a mess, with microtransactions making everything grody in that early-2010s EA way.
The 2009 original is still a joy, a cheery take on tower defence with pea-spitting plants, bungee-jumping zombies, stoics nuts, a lovely theme song, and just enough strategy to be rewarding without baffling. Zombies 2 and the I've-heard-they're-good-but-they're-not-what-I-want multiplayer Garden Warfare spin-offs, I had hoped EA might return to plain ol' PC PvZ. Ian Arts, you are a monster.Īfter the microtransaction-muddled Plants vs. Nullifying news: but this time it's just a mobile game so who even cares. Zombies 3.īad news: it's free-to-play again, and microtransactions were a blight on PvZ 2.
