Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare gets new DLC for free

Written by Brandon Hofer on March 17, 2014

News: EA has revealed that the Garden Variety Pack will become available for free tomorrow for PvZ: Garden Warfare players.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare was released a few weeks ago on Xbox One and Xbox 360 and earlier today EA revealed that they have a new game mode for everyone to enjoy beginning tomorrow. The new 8v8 game mode “Gnome Bomb,” the option to customize your loadout with 24 new ability upgrades and an all-new map, Chomp Town will become available in the Garden Variety Pack that will be available as a free download beginning on March 18.

The Garden Variety Pack features 24 new ability upgrades, three for each class including Sunflower’s Solar Flare Beam, Chomper’s Super Goop which cements zombies in place and the All-Star Zombie’s Ultra Tackle. These upgrades give players even more loadout options for battle in the fun-dead field. The Garden Variety Pack also introduces the explosive Gnome Bomb mode that challenges plants and zombies to work together to destroy each other’s reinforced garden or graveyard. You can explore a new map and encounter a band of fresh Pirate Zombies, such as the Map Pirate Zombie who shields himself with a treasure map, in Sharkbite Shores and Port Scallywag.

Check out the new screenshots below that show off some of this new content and tell us what you think. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a multiplayer shooter experience with the humor of the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. Players are able to take on the roles of plants and zombies across a mine-blowing terrain. Have you picked up your copy yet? If not, do you plan on picking up Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare?