Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
The battle for suburbia grows to crazy new heights in Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2! In this hilarious, action-packed shooter, zombie leader Dr. Zomboss has strengthened his horde and rebuilt suburbia as…
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a shooter developed by PopCap Games, released 23 February 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a shooter game developed by PopCap Games and released in 2016. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a 2016 third-person shooter video game developed by PopCap Games and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. It is the sequel to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and the fourth game in the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. The game was released in February 2016. A successor, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, was released in October 2019.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 63 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Plants vs. Zombies series
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is the 13th of 21 entries we hold in the Plants vs. Zombies series. The next entry was Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes in 2016. Its critic score of 85 is 6 points above the series average of 79. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Phenom X4 9850 or better, i5 650 or better, 4 GB RAM and Radeon HD 7730 or better, GeForce GT 640 or better. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 40GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 launched on 23 February 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch and SuperHot. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch, SuperHot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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