
The Chomper, played by a buddy, burrows underground and hurtles behind enemy lines like a worm out of Tremors. As the Sunflower (healer), it's all my deployable healing plant and I can do to keep the team's health out of the red. Our fire-breathing Snap Dragons have both been squashed, allowing skittering explosive zombies to detonate at our feet. The action is heated at the garden's central approach in the pavilion. This is PvZ's Garden Ops four player co-op mode, and on higher difficulties, it hangs in there with the best 'horde mode' and third-person tower defense games, such as Dungeon Defenders and Orcs Must Die!. The garden we've been tasked to protect is safe for now, perched atop a small knoll and surrounded by a menagerie of potted defense plants such as Gatling Pea Shooters and Bonk Choy melee tough guys who pummel anything that scurries within range. Their orange road cone helmets and detached screen doors deflect clip after clip of green peas and electrified cactus needles. The bug-eyed zombie onslaught swells around us.



Packed in the center of a crumbling graveyard pavilion, my three co-op partners and I are barely clinging to life.
