Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare Review
Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare Review
Okay I know what you may be thinking. “This has got to be a terrible game full of 8 year old trolls.” Well it may be true of the latter but not the prior. PVZ Garden Warfare is a surprisingly well done first person shooter. Plants blasting football zombies, undead scientist shooting lasers at sunflowers, what is not to like?
It may sound ridiculous but this game is very well put together and does provide a wacky alternative to the typical first person shooter experience. It runs smooth on the PS4 with full 1080p resolution with 60 fps and handles the action quite well, even when things get somewhat chaotic.
Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare offers two modes coop and multiplayer. The game is missing a single player campaign. This is a little disappointing. It would have been much better if the game contained even a shorter version of the original PVZ at least, but what can you do?
Co-op consists of a third person shooter take on the original PVZ. Up to 4 players defend the garden against the onslaught of plant eating zombies determined to wipe you and your friends out of existence. You start in a fixed spot and attempt to beat 10 of Zomboss’s waves of Zombies. If successful, Crazy Dave will come to the rescue and fly you out in his tricked out RV.
Multiplayer is where this game really shines. It is wacky fun and very entertaining. Animations are humorous and imaginative. My four year old absolutely loves who the zombie grunt wacks his gun on his helmet to reload. He thinks the noise is hilarious. The maps are small but adequate. You have to giggle a little as chompers come up out of the ground to sawllow zombies whole, even when it happens to you.
The classes are what works so well for this game. There are four classes for each team. Plants field: peashooters, chompers are stealthy, sunflower healers, and defense based cactus’. Zombies sport zombie grunts, engineers to offset chompers, scientist healers, and football zombie defenders. These classes are well balanced and do offset each other well. This balance makes for fun and fair gameplay.
Controls are familiar and similar to any other shooters with class specific abilities mapped to the L1 triangle and R1 buttons. It is easy to use and you can jump right into the action if you have ever played a shooter before.
You don’t earn experience to level up in Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare. You complete challenges by making multi kills or killing in certain ways to level up the classes. you can unlock your characters special abilities as you play more.
The game offers the typical death match as Team Vanquish. Vanquish confirmed is the same as kill confirmed in COD, and Gardens and Graveyards, which is similar to the battlefield game Rush and conquer. All are fun and have a new fresh humorous feel in Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare.
You can customize your classes by earning stickers in game or purchasing them with real money. The in game currency of coins are used for this purpose. I am not a big fan of in game purchases and believe they have no place in a purchased game. If you have a free to play model then fine but not a game you have to shell out $60 for to begin with.
Overall Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare is a fresh new style to the shooters we all know and love. I rate this one 7.5 stars out of 10.