'But unfortunately, in our dev cycle, it wasn't possible to get it to the frame rate that we wanted on Xbox 360.' 'We had to really crank to work with DICE to get Frostbite 3 to work in split-screen, and maintain the visual fidelity we wanted from the game,' said Clay. Instead, he explained, PopCap is a relatively small team for a game of this scope - about 40 developers are working on Garden Warfare - and it was the studio's first experience with EA DICE's Frostbite 3 engine, which powers games like Battlefield 4 and Need for Speed Rivals. Clay told Polygon that local co-op isn't exclusive to the Xbox One version of Garden Warfare because of some arrangement with Microsoft. We miss this type of gaming, and we really need to get it in.' And so the team really cranked on it, and got it up and running.' 'And honestly, we got halfway into the dev cycle and we went, 'You know, we want a mode like this. Zombies, in an interview with Polygon this week. 'Split-screen was never in our original plan,' said Gary Clay, senior franchise marketing manager for Plants vs. But based on our hands-on time with split-screen co-op, and it could end up being the standout mode in the game. The latter mode, according to PopCap, was a relatively late addition. Zombies: Garden Warfare, the upcoming third-person shooter from PopCap Games, are exclusive to its Xbox One version: the tablet-based Boss Mode, which works via SmartGlass, and split-screen co-op.

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