Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

 PlayStation 4
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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 191 Ratings

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  1. Gta56
    Jan 4, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Очень изменилась стелистика игры от второй и первой части вот почему она мне непонралов и ещё игра ну слишком для школьников… Expand
  2. DerekSCritic
    Mar 8, 2020
    3
    Plants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville is a game that I wanted to like but I just didn't. In fact, I just deleted it off my PS4 this past Saturday. This game doesn't know if it wants to be Overwatch or a Garden Warfare successor. While GW1 and GW2 were very fun to play, playing BFN feels like a chore because the game is awfully unbalanced; some characters suck while others are tooPlants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville is a game that I wanted to like but I just didn't. In fact, I just deleted it off my PS4 this past Saturday. This game doesn't know if it wants to be Overwatch or a Garden Warfare successor. While GW1 and GW2 were very fun to play, playing BFN feels like a chore because the game is awfully unbalanced; some characters suck while others are too overpowered. For example, the Scientist can absolutely destroy an entire team while the 80s Action Hero is useless. Also, the maps in this game are disjointed without any proper flow, and, worst of all, this game removed the beloved character variants in favor of an upgrade system. The flaws with this game do not end with the multiplayer as the single-player portion is pointless, mind-numbingly boring fetch quests. I completed the mission where I was tasked with defeated Baron von Batz and then I just decided to quit. The only saving graces of this game is that it has a sprint button, allowing you to get back into the game quicker, and the hub world is nice and fun to explore. However, this doesn't save BFN from its unbalanced multiplayer, flawed story mode and overall lack of significant Garden Warfare features. If you want to have a better time, I'd recommend playing GW2 instead. Plants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville was nothing but a massive disappointment.… Expand
  3. sergio69
    Dec 22, 2019
    2
    pvz battle for neighbor is bad the frockin mushroom is so broken and pvp is not fun some all of the team vanquish maps are too big so u will have to play hide and seek to find enemies and the scientist is just terrible to play as and the maps are just so bland i wish they couldve done something better :(
  4. RPbirdzz
    Mar 8, 2020
    1
    It's like a generic third person shooter game with a reskin that looks like pvz on top, clunky gameplay, players that just run or abuse the game mechanics, too many environmental hazards that the map itself is an enemy, most maps aren't designed well, anything new is just blocked by a grind wall yet anything similar was easy and available to all players just in a pack i the previous games,It's like a generic third person shooter game with a reskin that looks like pvz on top, clunky gameplay, players that just run or abuse the game mechanics, too many environmental hazards that the map itself is an enemy, most maps aren't designed well, anything new is just blocked by a grind wall yet anything similar was easy and available to all players just in a pack i the previous games, although the game looks pleasing, it's actually a cluttered mess that could've been something great, and updates that take a month so it barely gets changed. In conclusion it's just a mess of a pvz title, if you want to get it, go ahead, I just think this game is awful.… Expand
  5. PpaawwzZ
    Nov 13, 2019
    3
    This game is one of the most frustrating messes I have ever played multiplayer has many mechanics which ruin it for me such as overhealing and sprinting and the lag on movement abilities is disgusting also it is awfully unbalanced as characters like nightcap , scientist and super brains can destroy an entire team meanwhile characters such as chomper and 80’s action hero struggle to evenThis game is one of the most frustrating messes I have ever played multiplayer has many mechanics which ruin it for me such as overhealing and sprinting and the lag on movement abilities is disgusting also it is awfully unbalanced as characters like nightcap , scientist and super brains can destroy an entire team meanwhile characters such as chomper and 80’s action hero struggle to even survive with time to kill in this game being the longest ever healers such as sunflower make a character practically invincible and the exp needed to level up a character is to much at the later levels and when you have an achievement to max out the level of every character this becomes a serious issue I have a 54 hour play time and I haven’t even maxed out one also with events and a (free) battle pass you can get items with prize bulbs but according to the player base even an extremely good player getting an average of 20 kills per game and completing every challenge available ( you are given daily challenges and character specific challenges to get extra prize bulbs) it would take 2 days worth of play time to complete the battle pass which is utterly insane they have also removed beloved features such as variants which added a much needed freshness and extra playability to the game for new characters instead and we have gotten no information about a new character yet. The only time I had fun playing this game was with the Pve areas which have been perfected since the last game . The saddest part about this game is that under all of this mess lies a good and fun game and I hope that in the future pop cap can improve upon this game and make it one of the greats along pvz:gw and pvz:gw2… Expand
  6. Yellowpoppit
    Apr 2, 2020
    0
    Every time i come back to play this i get bored after an hour. because the maps are garbage it feels like the plants team has the advantage. it also has a ton of bad mechanics that make me dislike it even more
  7. Skydog
    Nov 20, 2019
    1
    Avoid at all cost!! I love these games but they always keep these unbalanced and unfun for the multiplayer anymore.
    Graphics are great, however graphics don’t mean good gameplay.
    They ignore nerfing pleas on social media as well! Ea needs avoided!!!!! Jan 2020- still is NOT balanced at all. The social media rolls their eyes at you when you bring up issues too as well. They only care about    Avoid at all cost!! I love these games but they always keep these unbalanced and unfun for the multiplayer anymore.
    Graphics are great, however graphics don’t mean good gameplay.
    They ignore nerfing pleas on social media as well! Ea needs avoided!!!!!

    Jan 2020- still is NOT balanced at all. The social media rolls their eyes at you when you bring up issues too as well. They only care about their micro transaction stars. Avoid buying this mess!    … Expand
  8. Jackjetjet
    Oct 29, 2019
    2
    The game is poorly executed even though a great single player mode. The multi-play mode have a lot of bugs, hit detection, ability failure. Not to mention that the game reused all the sound, music from the old game. I also don't like the healer become irrelevant in the game. The game is hard for new player especially on the plants side and the zombie have way too much of one-hit-killThe game is poorly executed even though a great single player mode. The multi-play mode have a lot of bugs, hit detection, ability failure. Not to mention that the game reused all the sound, music from the old game. I also don't like the healer become irrelevant in the game. The game is hard for new player especially on the plants side and the zombie have way too much of one-hit-kill ability. Game also have a huge balance issue I also don't like the game is more or less "play more to win" that made all the new player very hard to play against high rank player. As a max rank player on GW1 and GW2, I am very disappoint to this game and it is the worst game I play in 2019 so far… Expand
  9. tomasino
    Apr 22, 2020
    1
    This game has disappointed me. The graphics are really cool, story too, but what this game brings new?
    The animations are sometimes realy funny, because it's horrible. Details are nowhere, if you compare the plants and zombies witj pvz gw 2, you will see the difference. I know, EA wanted comics graphics, but it don't look good. If you ever played and liked pvz gw, you will be    This game has disappointed me. The graphics are really cool, story too, but what this game brings new?
    The animations are sometimes realy funny, because it's horrible. Details are nowhere, if you compare the plants and zombies witj pvz gw 2, you will see the difference. I know, EA wanted comics graphics, but it don't look good. If you ever played and liked pvz gw, you will be disapointed. Any new multiplayer mod isn't there, any new mod isn't there. This is not good game.    … Expand
  10. GioThePineapple
    Jul 12, 2020
    0
    It is full of bad times, there is too much handicap, it is perceived too much, being a regular player you will only have good matchs if the game wants it, to the degree of feeling that you are not the one who is playing, in the PvP rooms there are many bots, which detect you in the most absurd way.
  11. LarryTheHealer
    Oct 19, 2019
    0
    Why am I still in this game? I do not like how they set up the consumables, quests, and other stuff. Boring and the time played is padded out intentionally.
  12. GoblinSkull
    Oct 19, 2019
    2
    The game is really bad, but I did get a slight kick out of the Space Cadet zombie. Didn't like any of the other content.
  13. ReaperGames
    Oct 18, 2019
    0
    The game has so many issues that it made me refund it. There is little to no content to play through, the multiplayer is garbage, and the new characters are bland and useless.
  14. Discouraging
    Oct 19, 2019
    0
    This. Game. Is. Terrible. I legit had a bad time playing this game; The people on the game have very inappropriate names as well, which I do not want my son seeing, but they have not enabled an option that lets you filter out bad words, I took a few turns on playing the game too but I was getting instakilled for no reason.
  15. LucasRoisak
    Oct 19, 2019
    0
    This was supposed to be a good game??? Hahahahahahahaha! I am the biggest ego have-er in the history of ego have-ers! This game disappoints me so horribly in a way that it is imbalanced just like the universe. The map design is garbage. The character design sucks. The fighting sucks. The aiming sucks. It also does not have Electro Pea.
  16. Gdelucca
    Oct 20, 2019
    3
    No se que hicieron, pvz 1 y 2 eran geniales, la sensación de juego es pésima, no hay control, mapas muy pequeños y cerrados con demasiados jugadores a la vez, no se entiende la acción en el juego, quien dispara, ni nada.
  17. Kinokee
    Jun 12, 2020
    1
    Edit: Reupdated my score to a 1. They introduced a patch that locks out your controller and/or blue screens you if you go afk. I'm assuming it's to stop afk people from leeching xp, but, if your dog or kid pukes somewhere and you need to clean it up asap expect to come back to a locked controller or blue screen of death. Thanks for punishing innocent people who bought your game EA.

    AI    Edit: Reupdated my score to a 1. They introduced a patch that locks out your controller and/or blue screens you if you go afk. I'm assuming it's to stop afk people from leeching xp, but, if your dog or kid pukes somewhere and you need to clean it up asap expect to come back to a locked controller or blue screen of death. Thanks for punishing innocent people who bought your game EA.

    AI is a bit too good as it can see you even if you're hiding from other players. The majority of my deaths are from AI killing me across the map or turning around because they know I'm there as I flank the enemy team.

    There's a lot of event and NONE of them share the same timer. some of them work on a 24 hour system where if you beat it you need to wait 24 hours from that point. It's not a daily refresh time you can look forward to. There's 3 or 4 OTHER things going on that have their own separate daily or weekly or monthly timers and NONE of them match up. It's a headache just to try to play the game for the events they have. Fire whoever made them and get someone who has played an online game before please.

    Major class imbalance. Some are able to solo large groups and some are meant to die. There's no real way around it, they're just not balanced. I'd go into details but I feel like everyone here already voiced it enough.

    Different controls for the same characters. Some plants and zombies are direct clones of each other but their controls are different. It's like playing COD but depending which side you're on you're either playing southpaw or standard. It's like whenever you play you need to find your grenade button again.

    Running has such a long lag time. Something around 1.5 seconds between sprinting and being able to do ANYTHING. It's like they promote everyone to be walking targets.
    Using skills sometimes doesn't work. I'm not sure why. I'm guessing you can't use them in quick succession with normal firing, running, other skills, and ???.

    The aim assist is atrocious and will cause you to miss live pvp targets. Some of the aiming seems off. It looks like it's hit scan but does not behave that way. I also suggest turning the aim speed up a lot otherwise you'll have trouble hit anything strafing while aiming or trying to shoot.

    Single Player has specific enemy spawns. There's no randomized events or a living map.

    I don't care there's micro transactions. My problem is that the game isn't fun to play. Which is really disappointing because I like the PvZ series and really enjoyed the previous entries. This game is NOT GW1 or GW2.

    Updated my score to be lower than before because after playing it some more I've come to hate it, the mechanics, the AI, the functionality, and the fact that it sends my ps4 pro's fan into overdrive to the point it crashes if I just stand around town (not abusing any xp gains. Just. Standing.)    … Expand
  18. Daruda9
    Jul 2, 2020
    2
    Bad game. Not working, Unbalanced, not fun. Just don't play it. Getting rid of hero variants is the worst idea in hestory. If you like first two pvzGW games than you won't like this one.
  19. Dr_Trolleur
    Aug 27, 2020
    3
    This game is the worst pvz I never saw >:( ! keep gw2 it's better. bfn is bad...
  20. drlowdon
    Aug 9, 2021
    4
    As with its predecessors, Battle for Neighborville, is a third-person shooter where players take control of the Plants or the Zombies in either single player or online multiplayer modes.

    The game offers plenty of game modes and the option of four different character types, which all adds some variety to proceedings, but the game simply isn't very much fun. The single player is    As with its predecessors, Battle for Neighborville, is a third-person shooter where players take control of the Plants or the Zombies in either single player or online multiplayer modes.

    The game offers plenty of game modes and the option of four different character types, which all adds some variety to proceedings, but the game simply isn't very much fun. The single player is unimaginative, and from Titanfall to Overwatch there are far better online shooters available.    … Expand
  21. diabolik
    Nov 22, 2020
    1
    DONT SPEND YOUR MONEY
    Happy for a for a new game, but honestly the game sucks, no variants, very boring, have nothing of continuity with Plants vs Zombies warfare 1 and 2, at last the number 2 give you the chance to export all your progress and characters, this one is sucks.
  22. HHTheMoon
    Apr 25, 2021
    3
    Too many unbalanced party. i love PVZ2 for the simplicity. This game seems like Overwatch. With same problems. 3 points for PVE. As for Overwatch, a big difference between the opinions of the users and the press ...
  23. Oamis2000
    Jul 16, 2020
    3
    Sinto que o jogo perdeu muito a essência do gw2, os gráficos ficaram mais cartonescos.
  24. Sleeper321
    Aug 2, 2021
    0
    Garden warfare 1 & 2 were soooo much better. This one was a gigantic downgrade. You no longer get variants of each class, you just get the one static class & that's it. I couldn't even bring myself to play it for more than 30 minutes when I played GW2 for months. This is my biggest disappointment since Dungeon Defenders 2. It's amazing how much they ruined the franchise in just one game.Garden warfare 1 & 2 were soooo much better. This one was a gigantic downgrade. You no longer get variants of each class, you just get the one static class & that's it. I couldn't even bring myself to play it for more than 30 minutes when I played GW2 for months. This is my biggest disappointment since Dungeon Defenders 2. It's amazing how much they ruined the franchise in just one game. This is definitely why it's free this month on PS plus. I feel ROBED having payed money to play this.… Expand
  25. Davigamer24
    Nov 19, 2020
    4
    ficou chato depois pararam de atualizar o jogo, muito caro sua versao deluxe e um lixo sem coisa inutil na versao deluxe mais os personagem estao balanceado eu do um 4
  26. Acrizz
    Mar 3, 2021
    3
    This game is literal trash, a BIG step down from GW2. The whole tutorial is clustered and you don't know where to go and what to do. Multiplayer is basically the only good thing in this, and even then if you're not on PC, you have to pay for online subscriptions. Terrible game and costs way too much money for it to be playable.
  27. Oyungazi
    Jul 26, 2021
    0
    Run!!! İts game bad.Just kidding, what the hell, it's not even garbage anymore.. If it's given for free, you wouldn't add it to the library and take up space.
  28. Ihave2Spoons
    Aug 3, 2021
    1
    I think that overall the game is way worse than 1 and 2 I hate how even though there are more characters the variants are just skins now. I think the singleplayer is ok but still the main part of the game is multi player and they screwed that up heavily mainly like I said there are no variants like in the old games.
  29. Gurpgork
    Sep 1, 2021
    0
    If you fall out of bounds and die the game gifts your death too the last enemy who hurt you. Broken...
  30. Fiiisch100
    Sep 2, 2021
    0
    Got this game for free on PS+
    I played the first GW and enjoyed it a lot, the 2nd one felt unbalanced, so I barely played it
    The balancing in this game is really bad, but turf takeover, which had balancing problems in every pvz is imo barely playable, if you want to win, because in some maps the plants have a 90%+ win rate and on the others the zombies have a 90%+ win rate. Leveling    Got this game for free on PS+
    I played the first GW and enjoyed it a lot, the 2nd one felt unbalanced, so I barely played it
    The balancing in this game is really bad, but turf takeover, which had balancing problems in every pvz is imo barely playable, if you want to win, because in some maps the plants have a 90%+ win rate and on the others the zombies have a 90%+ win rate.
    Leveling takes ages, and it´s a star system (every star has 10 levels and, if you are level 10, you have to go back to base and "evolve" your character to the next star. If you gain xp after you reach level 10, the xp you get is not stored and because of that it´s meaningless.
    It has a single player, but it´s boring, way easier with some characters and some of the single player modes are bugged, which makes your game crash or enemies won´t spawn.
    On top of that, there is a bug, got it before I got the platinum (bought TV-head, maybe the new characters are just horrendously programmed), which does not let you connect to EA servers, and the solution is create a new PS account and therefore loose all your progress

    Therefore boring game, grindy, bugged, unbalanced and you can loose all your progress, one of the worst games I´ve played    … Expand
  31. VitorDestroy
    Dec 9, 2021
    3
    Este jogo é pior do que o gw2, ele não é tão divertido quanto o gw2, a história desse jogo é horrível os mapas são meio que sem vida é tudo muito escuro, eles tiraram VÁRIOS PERSONAGENS. Que tinham poderes diferentes da mesma classe porém ainda dá para se divertir mas eu recomendo esperar uma promoção porque 100reais nesse jogo não é um número muito atrativo.
  32. Khaled_al_baqam
    May 20, 2022
    4
    اللعبة معاقة من نواحي كثيرة مثل المابات والكامرة الغير متناسق مع القليتشات ومافيها اشياء تشجع ان ارجع العب اللعبة عكس الاجزاء القديمة
    مثل قاردين وارفير 2
    تقيمي للعبة 4 من 10 بدل 0 من 10 السبب طور قصة حلو بس قصير والانميشن الشخصيات رهيب والشخصيات الجديدة حلوة نوعا ما بس ذا الشي ما بيشفع للعبة الصراحة سعرها 30 دولار! عكس الاجزاء القديمة الي نزل سعرها الى 18 دولار بستور السعودي والي يصير لها    اللعبة معاقة من نواحي كثيرة مثل المابات والكامرة الغير متناسق مع القليتشات ومافيها اشياء تشجع ان ارجع العب اللعبة عكس الاجزاء القديمة
    مثل قاردين وارفير 2

    تقيمي للعبة 4 من 10 بدل 0 من 10 السبب طور قصة حلو بس قصير
    والانميشن الشخصيات رهيب والشخصيات الجديدة حلوة نوعا ما
    بس ذا الشي ما بيشفع للعبة الصراحة
    سعرها 30 دولار!
    عكس الاجزاء القديمة الي نزل سعرها الى 18 دولار بستور السعودي
    والي يصير لها تخفيض كل شهر ويصير سعرها 4 دولار دائما
    هذا كانت مراجعتي وشكرا لكم    … Expand
  33. Manchesterfc
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only good thing about this game is the bosses in the campaign are cool and the wizard is a alright character. So this game took away the 2 best parts of the previous to games, the varients and the packs. First, this game took the varients and got rid of them even though they were the best part of both games and all they had to do was copy and paste them and it would be a 6/10 game and don't say they would have to change all of them for art style because Gw2 made a ton of new varients in the first place so that can't be much harder. 2nd is the pack system were you got like 10 items were you use at least 1 thing from them and in this game, you spend 30,000 hard earn coins on some random hat that you'll never use which comparing that to the previous 2 games, a 20,000 coin pack got you like 2 or 3 cosmetics, a few plants/ bots which they got rid of that system and made most of them when you plant them you have to wait a minute or more to plant again which is a weird change but back to my main point, you would also get a part of a sticker of a random character and maybe like a weed plant or zombie plant things which is way more bang for your buck. They also removed bosses from the backyard battleground place which remove the challenge from doing it by yourself and also got rid of doing that last stand were you have to protect the flag. Also, the backyard area is way bigger and more confusing, I mean you walk around doing random things for these small plants for 10 minutes to figure out and go to all the places and I still can't find my way around 20 hours and 2 weeks later. The multiplayer is also terrible considering no one is playing this game and every time I want to play battle arena it's not there for the weekly game mode.
    Overall, this game is garbage and I understand why Popcap and EA abandoned it along with the entire series for now anyways. They hopefully revive the series one day and make a Garden warfare 3 that's good and everyone forgets this exist even more.    … Expand

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 30, 2019
    85
    Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighbourville is a stellar dive into hero shooter waters for PopCap. With its great level design, great multiplayer and ton of content, it overcomes some of its flaws like lack of campaign and is sure to give tons of hours of PvE and PvP fun.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Dec 6, 2019
    55
    While the art, gameplay and music are fine, it feels like EA made a game so exclusively for children that their parents won't want to play it with them, leaving them to be influenced alone. Even if you can tolerate the tone and have the wherewithal to not spend too much money on DLC, Neighborville is fine. It just won't be your best purchase EVAR.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 18, 2019
    80
    Oozing with things to do and inventive classes to do them with, it elevates the act of shooting plants and zombies to fresh heights. [Issue#169, p.97]
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