14 DAY TRIAL // Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, the upcoming shooter take on the classic strategy series, features a special mode called Gardens & Graveyards that will offer a special experience to players, as highlighted in a brand new gameplay video from PopCap.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare received quite a few new details in recent weeks, and now developer PopCap Games has confirmed that, besides the traditional modes already revealed for the game, it will also feature a custom experience called Gardens & Graveyards.
According to PopCap's Brian Lindley, who talked with Microsoft's Larry Hryb, the new mode draws inspiration from the Rush and Conquest game types from the Battlefield franchise, which is also published by parent company Electronic Arts.
"G&G is a bit of a mix between of Battlefield’s Rush and Conquest modes, intertwined with some tower defense elements similar to the original PvZ, supporting up to 24 players per session. The setup is pretty simple – Zombies have a limited amount of time to try to capture the garden bases and turn them into graveyards," he said.
"These garden bases will be defended and fortified by the plant team, but if the zombies manage to capture a base, they can use the newly captured graveyard as their base and the battle shifts to a new objective at a different location in the map."
Gardens & Graveyards will have its own set of really big maps, according to Lindley, but the action will be focused on smaller parts of them at any given time, in order to not lose the attention of the player.
"The maps in G&G are quite large in scale, and as the battle progresses through the different base objectives, the scenery and action gets crazier and crazier. If the zombies manage to battle their way to the end of the map, they are challenged to overcome the last stand of the plant team and some interesting gameplay twists at the end."
In order to really show just how Gardens & Graveyards plays out, a special new gameplay video is available below.
