Garden Warfare 2 trailer premieres at Microsoft E3 conference

Electronic Arts’ COO Peter Moore took the stage at Microsoft’s E3 press conference to show the world premiere trailer of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, coming first to Xbox One in spring 2016.

The trailer showed off more of the franchise’s signature vegetation-based carnage, including several new characters. or the plants, a rose character will be able to polymorph zombies into goats, an ear of corn shot kernels like a gatling gun, and an orange transformed into a walker tank, complete with citrus-based shields.

On the zombie side, a space zombie was shown with dual blasters and a space mech. Another toted a giant laser, and a pirate zombie ran around doing pirate things.

The follow-up to Garden Warfare will release in spring 2016.