Playstation 3 40 GB Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Bundle - Boxed - PS3

• Sunflower: The team's medic, she has lower firepower and armour but can quickly revive any downed ally and use a healing beam that restores health quickly. Other abilities include the ability to root in place and unleash a beam of concentrated sunlight to damage opponents, and the ability to drop a potted healing plant that can heal all allies within its radius.

• Cactus: They are the team's snipers, firing needles at medium to long range and can also release drones that rain corn shots down on opponents, barriers to slow zombies down, and potato mines that quickly defeat anyone foolish enough to step on them.

• Chomper: They are slow and cumbersome, but they can quickly defeat opponents by biting them from behind and swallowing them whole. This, however, leaves them vulnerable until they have digested their prey. They can also burrow underground and launch a surprise attack, and set vine traps that devour anyone who steps into them. ZOMBIESSoldier:* The all-round class, they can use a rocket to jump to higher locations such as cliffs and rooftops, throw zombie stink clouds that disorient and damage plants caught within them, and use a ZPG that wreaks havoc, especially on rooted plants.

• Scientist: The zombies' medic can use healing stations to restore health and can quickly revive downed allies. They can also use warp abilities to quickly escape situations, and use a sticky bomb to set traps for rogue plants.

• Engineer: Although somewhat slower, they can use a jackhammer ability to quickly traverse the battlefield, and they can build teleporters scattered across certain modes to help zombie allies advance faster. They also have sonic grenades that can stun plants and quickly flush out Chompers burrowing underground, and can deploy a zombie drone to carry out traffic cone attacks.

• All-Star: The heaviest of all zombies, he can take much more damage and deal more, but is also somewhat slower. All-Stars can deploy shields that can absorb damage and use imp punts to take out groups of plants, as well as a sprint tackle that can take down opponents in his way.

There are also various variations of each class, which can give them different weapons and the ability to have elemental damaging effects, as well as an alternative version of their abilities that can be used more often but are less effective than their default abilities. Players can unlock these classes and abilities by completing matches and challenges and earning coins to buy card packs, which can be opened to unlock these abilities and classes, as well as AI reinforcements that players can summon in certain modes, and new costume parts that can be used to customise the plant/zombie.

There is a 4-player co-op mode called Garden Ops (another nod to Modern Warfare's Spec Ops), in which up to four friends or strangers can team up and defend their garden against 10 waves of AI zombies. After the fifth and tenth waves, players face a boss fight determined by a slot machine that can produce several generic zombies, as well as stronger boss zombies that can take much more damage.

The other modes are competitive and include:

• Welcome Mat: A basic team deathmatch in which players start with their default classes and abilities and receive a health boost each time they are defeated.
• Team Vanquish: A standard team deathmatch in which the team with 50 vanquishes wins the match.
• Gardens & Graveyards: A mode in which plants defend gardens against zombies, with the goal of keeping zombies within a set area around the garden. If the zombies outnumber the plants, they can quickly turn the garden into a graveyard. If they do so before the time limit expires, the timer increases and unlocks the next area, until the areas are captured or the plants can hold off the zombies for a set amount of time.
• Classic Team Vanquish: Team deathmatch, but with default classes and abilities.
• Classic Gardens & Graveyards: The same mode, but with default classes and abilities.
• Mixed Mode: A mix of modes and maps cycled through at random.

Later updates brought new class variations and maps, as well as other game modes:

• Gnome Bomb: In this mode, a gnome fitted with a bomb is placed either on the plants' gardens or the zombies' gravestones. If not defused, they destroy the bomb, and this continues until either time runs out or one side blows up all three areas.
• Vanquished Confirmed!: A variant of Kill Confirmed, in which players only score points by collecting tags dropped by defeated players.
• Suburbination: Another variant of Call of Duty's "Domination" mode, in which players capture three different points, whose control causes the opposing team to lose faster.
• Taco Bandits: Here, the plants must defend their taco stand from marauding zombies who want to grab the tacos and bring them back to their base. The match ends when time runs out or when the zombies bring back a taco three times.

Since the game can only be played online, Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners need a Gold membership to play the game. PC players also need an EA Origin account to play.

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