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The Guide: games: Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare Xbox One: South Park: The Stick Of Truth Xbox 360, PS3, PC(Guardian (UK) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare Xbox One: Painting a charming cartoon vision of the world's destruction by zombies, Garden Warfare transplants PopCap's brilliant tower-defence game into a third-person shooter. With four roles on each team - from gunner to medic - all are spiced up by amusingly outlandish costumes, unique powers and equipment. Garden Ops is nearest to the original, getting you to defend a patch of shrubbery against waves of cute undead. The other multiplayer games boil down to team and individual death matches and something similar to Battlefield's rush mode. With a more stately pace than most shoot 'em ups, healing and playing your part in a team are at least as important as accuracy and a fast trigger finger. Although unlikely to unglue the masses from Call Of Duty or next week's awesome giant-robot game, Titanfall, this is a fun multiplayer shooter that won't emotionally scar your children. nick gillett Electronic Arts, pounds 22.84-pounds 29.99 South Park: The Stick Of Truth Xbox 360, PS3, PC Videogame by-products of entertainment franchises have a long and ignominious history of being cheaply made wastes of human effort, churned out to exploit the unwary. Sadly, South Park's previous game outings have fallen into this category, but The Stick Of Truth is a proper adventure game, unmistakably the work of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and containing an extended fantasy-themed South Park episode to explore at your own pace. In Europe, some elements have been censored (including, it says in the press release, "A mini-game in which the player is performing an abortion on the character Randy" and "Five anal probing scenes involving someone actually being probed"), and it's way too easy. But it's also very funny and the only way of witnessing Grand Wizard Cartman at work. ng Ubisoft, pounds 29,99-pounds 37.99 (c) 2014 Guardian Newspapers Limited. |