It’s a great place to test new abilities, explore character customizations, take amusement park rides, visit a shooting range, play musical tunes and minigames, etc. On top of all that, there’s a social hub called Giddy Park, where you’ll spend your time between matches and modes. Each zone also offers an epic multi-phase boss battle, and they’re chock-full of activities that can be played alone or with local friends. Zombies make their way through Weirding Woods, an overgrown former campground. Plants get to explore a place called Mount Steep, a Wild West-like mountain area. Along the way, they’ll fend off computer-generated attackers, find treasure, solve thought-provoking puzzles, careen through platforming challenges and fulfill bounties on unique enemies. PopCap has created four massive, open-world sandbox areas designed to send players off on fun exploration quests. The big addition here, though, is all the new player-versus-environment (PvE) fun. There’s also a new competitive mode called Funderdome Arena that pits two teams of four in best-of matches. And the various player-versus-player modes from past titles, such as Team Vanquish (a sort of death match), Suburbination (a king of the hill game) and others, return here with a load of sprawling new maps. Gamers can choose to be on either side of the plant/zombie conflict. In this case it’s a zombie spacecraft that can protect up to three other Space Cadets and zippity-zap a garden with space-zombie laser blasts. On the zombie front, we get Space Cadet, which, like Acorn, can turn into a fortress attacker.
He can transform from a tiny acorn into a giant oak tree that thumps around with a slew of new abilities and he can house up to three fellow acorn players, like a big moving fortress that rains down destruction. For the plants, it’s something called Acorn.
He can go all Rambo on foes with his bow, homing rockets and ridable missiles.Įach side also gets a brand-new type of class. And on the zombie side, 80s Action Hero is one of the new guys. The plants get a ninja mushroom called Night Cap, for instance, who can go invisible for short periods and secretly slide up on enemies. On top of that, we have six new characters/classes joining the ranks (three on each side). And, of course, each has its own pea-popping, chomping or bomb-chucking attack, along with special abilities that give each kind of character its unique offensive, defensive and support capabilities. Seven recognizable core classes from the plant side and seven from the zombie side show up. And each has its own sown-in bits of character-driven humor to keep younger players engaged.Īs for those quirky characters, a lot of them return here. And several mini-game quests here do play to that idea.īut Battle for Neighborville isn’t so much a single story-driven adventure as it is a collection of arenas, quests and new open-world areas. Zomboss to infect the world with zombieness. The answer is that there is so much new gameplay seeded into this blooming thing that it simply deserved its own brand-spanking-new nameplate.įor those who have played the past games in one form or another, you could easily think of this as the latest attempt by the diabolical franchise nemesis Dr. So you may be wondering why PopCap didn’t just call it Garden Warfare 3. This is actually the second sequel in the PvZ series. So, now the question is this: Does the new PvZ experience smell as sweet as the past well-pruned garden games, or is the battling a bit more zombie scented? Stick around and we’ll see. Which brings us to the newest game entry in his franchise: Plants vs. If you’re seeing a similarity between the titles Garden Warfare and, say, Modern Warfare, well, you get the idea of what kind of shooter the developers wanted to spoof with their broader array of seed-spitting shoot-outs and multiplayer action. That handheld cartoon zombie-popper was so beloved that the game developers expanded the fun into the console world a few years later with Plants vs. Way back in the ancient smartphone days of 2009, a group called PopCap Games offered people the fun little tower-defense mobile app Plants vs.
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