Once I hit play on EA’s new “deep dive” trailer for the upcoming Crops vs Zombies Replanted, I didn’t count on to be offered with a faux stream that includes two actors pretending to be hip and funky content material creators enjoying the brand new remastered model of PopCap’s beloved tower defense game. But that’s what this new trailer is. It’s so unusual and cringey.
Announced earlier this year, Crops vs. Zombies Replanted is a 4K remastered version of the original 2009 PvZ with some new content material in addition to bonus options just like the co-op mode first seen within the Xbox 360 and PS3 variations. Consider it as the final word model of the favored recreation, which is able to lastly be accessible on consoles and PC later this month. I’m very excited to replay PvZ after not touching the sport for a lot of, a few years. However a brand new trailer from EA exhibiting off PvZ Replanted almost made me query my pleasure for this remastered basic.
Launched on October 14, EA’s “Deep Dive Trailer” does certainly showcase lots of the upcoming PvZ Replanted, together with a brand new perma-death mode and the return of all of the minigames present in previous ports. That’s nice. What’s not nice is that every one of this data is, for some purpose, delivered to us by way of two faux streamers enjoying the sport on a faux stream, full with faux chat and compelled reactions. Right here’s the trailer:
Yeah, it’s fairly unhealthy. After watching it the primary time, I felt prefer it should have been almost 10 minutes lengthy, however it’s not even 4 minutes. It simply felt a lot longer. I assume listening to a faux streamer yell out “Spud Yeah!” could make you lose monitor of time.
The feedback under the trailer are, predictably, not optimistic, with many excited concerning the recreation however not sure why EA determined to promote it this fashion. The highest-voted remark merely states: “‘How do you do fellow kids’ trailer.”
Yeah, teenagers and youngsters aren’t silly. They’ll see proper by this apparent corporate-approved try and recreate a Twitch stream in probably the most sanitized approach attainable, say “Cringe,” and transfer on. PvZ is nice. Simply present individuals how a lot better this model appears to be like and a number of the new options. That’s all you gotta do to get individuals on board. The $20 price tag is also a great selling point that this trailer fails to say.
Anyway, unhealthy, cringey trailer apart, I’m nonetheless excited to play Crops vs Zombies Replanted when it arrives on consoles and PC on October 23.
