plants vs zombies battle for neighborville ps4

It pales in comparison to games like Overwatch or Apex Legends, which coincidentally are both available on the Switch and a lot more fun. It doesn't help that I'm not sure if there's going to be a considerable player base for this. It's just an alright little shooter with extra abilities and not many modes to choose from. Technically there's nothing wrong with how this plays, but it doesn't do anything exciting or new. The combat is solid, although I wasn't blown away. RELATED: EA Provides An Update On The FIFA 21 Ultimate Team Scandal There are no microtransactions in this edition of Battle For Neighborville, which shocked the hell out of me.

Speaking of those coins, they're all earned in-game. Additionally, there's a big hub world where you can run around with other players, look at your challenges, and spend coins to purchase cosmetics, skills, or new characters. There are also some classes that are designed for defending objectives and supporting other players.Īs for game modes, there's Turf Takeover, which is the big 16 player mode where you're tasked with capturing or defending points and objectives Garden & Graveyard Ops, which is essentially a Gears Of War-esque horde mode where you and your team fight waves of enemies and a Weekly Event mode, that for this week was an 8v8 team deathmatch affair. Some are for up-close confrontations, some fire off rounds like machine guns, etc. Each one has its own specific set of skills and attacks. Meanwhile, zombies get all kinds of wacky classes like pirates, superheroes, mad scientists, and roller-disco dancers. On the plant side of things, you have classics like the Pea-Shooter or the zombie-devouring Chomper. This particular franchise actually translates to a hero shooter pretty well since there's a variety of different plant and zombie character designs. It's a good way to get to know all of the various character classes so you're ready for the multiplayer, but it's not much more than that. It mostly involves walking up to various silly NPCs, accepting a quest, and then fighting waves of zombies ending with a boss battle. If I wanted that brand of comedy, I'd peruse a few dozen meme posts over on Reddit.įor the most part, this campaign feels more like an elongated tutorial for the multiplayer mode. It's all jokes about old 80s fashion and cringe-worthy internet humor like yetis who hoard bling.

Well, comedic in the sense that it's supposed to be funny, but aside from a few smirk-inducing lines, it's mostly insufferable. Much to my surprise, there is a single-player campaign to play through that has some semblance of a plot and quite a bit of comedic dialogue. Battle For Neighborville is all about the large-scale war between the happy-go-lucky living plants and the goofy undead zombies.

Plants vs zombies battle for neighborville ps4