With Popcap’s ‘Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2’ game scheduled for launch on the PS4, Xbox One and PC on February 23, 2016, the console beta of the forthcoming game went live this past weekend.

‘Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2’ is a sequel to the original ‘Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare’ shooting game.

The console beta of ‘Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2’ on PS4 and Xbox One gives the gamers a glimpse at the new maps and modes which will be available to them when the shooter sequel is launched next month. One of the most noteworthy components of the sequel is the free-roaming playground which has replaced the monotonous menus of the original game.

To make up for the uninteresting screens of the original game, the shooter sequel boasts the introduction of a feature called the Backyard Battleground -- a free-roaming hub map which includes all of the bits which were stuck in boring menus of the original game, and a lot more.

The middle area of ‘Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2’ is a battleground. The game allows gamers to wander about in the safe zones, enabling them to access different machines for swapping out their character, changing sides, buying stickers, joining online games or setting up split-screen multiplayer.