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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  2. Mixed: 38 out of 191
  3. Negative: 71 out of 191
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  1. 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
  2. doutoramentos
    May 28, 2023
    6
    A game that I needed but I found out that I didn't, absurd downgrade compared to Garden Warfare 2, they took out incredible systems to put new **** systems, gameplay is almost the same and still good, they removed the variants, the worst decision without a doubt, unbalanced characters and bugs on release.
    One of the biggest disappointments, it had great potential but unfortunately they    A game that I needed but I found out that I didn't, absurd downgrade compared to Garden Warfare 2, they took out incredible systems to put new **** systems, gameplay is almost the same and still good, they removed the variants, the worst decision without a doubt, unbalanced characters and bugs on release.
    One of the biggest disappointments, it had great potential but unfortunately they killed a franchise because of this game.
    It's not horrible but it's not good, it's mediocre, you can have fun but only with friends, disappointment.    … Expand
  3. Daviwaru
    Mar 19, 2023
    6
    Esse jogo por mais que aceitável, N chega ao pés dos 3 primeiros e acaba ficando para trás
  4. Gok58
    Feb 25, 2023
    8
    En lo personal me pareció un buen juego tal vez no sea igual que guarden warfare pero si es muy bueno
  5. Eduard0X
    Jan 6, 2023
    8
    Es un juego muy divertido me encanta el diseño y me gusta los modos de juegos que hay lo único malo es que está muy enfocado en el multijugador
  6. NinjaPro52
    Nov 26, 2022
    9
    Para una persona que ha jugado desde niño a esta franquicia es un deleite volverlo a jugar una vez mas con contenido novedosos y esperando actualizaciones futuras para sacarle el maximo provecho a la saga y logras exprimir lo qur se merece este gran juego.
  7. Kosty
    Jun 16, 2022
    9
    Хорошая игра для совместной дрочки. Багов нет, динамика всегда, но не хватает побольше частных игр
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. Bloodnes
    Oct 30, 2021
    6
    В целом увлекательная песочница, затянула на пару дней, но потом однообразность приелась и уже как-то начал видеть слабые стороны игры. В целом побегать пойдет, онлайн всегда активный. 6/10
  11. 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...
  12. 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
  13. Greenlanter167
    Aug 27, 2021
    10
    Отличная игра. Одна из самых лучших игра в серии plants vs zombies. Видно как игра развивается в лучшую сторону.
  14. NazgulzLegacy
    Aug 12, 2021
    5
    Characters are very unbalanced, not enough content to use all characters or level all characters to max.
  15. 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
  16. Daniel_N
    Aug 6, 2021
    8
    An excellent game with perfect visuals filled with cute characters and locations!
  17. Jorgetrepadas
    Aug 4, 2021
    10
    The game is insanely good after 2300 hours I can say it's the best video game experience I've ever had.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. VladReviews
    May 21, 2021
    7
    As a fan of pvz ever since launch i have to say this game is nowhere near as good as gw2 or even gw1(in some aspects) . With all this said i'm still having a lot of fun playing this game and really like it. But it surely could have been better.
  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. EJP07
    Mar 3, 2021
    8
    I've sank around 30 hours in this game, and I've throughly enjoyed it! I went into it not really playing the previous entries, so I didnt really get to mess with the variants of the characters much, but overall this games systems and visuals are nice. I would say this game is for people looking to just have something dumb fun to play with people online, mainly freinds! The biggest negativeI've sank around 30 hours in this game, and I've throughly enjoyed it! I went into it not really playing the previous entries, so I didnt really get to mess with the variants of the characters much, but overall this games systems and visuals are nice. I would say this game is for people looking to just have something dumb fun to play with people online, mainly freinds! The biggest negative for me would have to be the lack of crossplay! I would've given a 9 if it had cross play but alas it's not in the game unfortunately. I will say that you should definitely check this game out, I love what popcap did and I hope future games contain some of the charm from this game. As well maybe bringing back the variations because from the way people make it sound it would be a great addition to have back in!… Expand
  24. 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.
  25. SuperkenGaming
    Mar 2, 2021
    7
    Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville
    Showing some promise
    Battle for neighborville isnot what I expected it to be at all.. both in good ways andbad woods.. the good.. theres a whole campaign here that I wasn’t expecting, you can play through as any of the plants or zombies youd like.. each side having 2 mini open worlds to complete tasks in, it starts out so charming, cute, and    Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville
    Showing some promise
    Battle for neighborville isnot what I expected it to be at all.. both in good ways andbad woods.. the good.. theres a whole campaign here that I wasn’t expecting, you can play through as any of the plants or zombies youd like.. each side having 2 mini open worlds to complete tasks in, it starts out so charming, cute, and fun.. I loved being a lttle pod shooter, hunting down a yeti, fighting a vampire… I loved this campaign.. untili didn’t anymore.. the campaign here feels more like a demo of what could be rather than a full fledged single player campaign, I mean each of the 4 sections main missions can be completed in an hr each.. its really a joke, as after you complete the 5 main quests its really just map cleaning and in game trophy list clearing… but I loved what could be and what should be done in the future.. theres potential with an actual open world dead island rpg like quest system with a dash of some Mario.. there is a great vaiety of character and polish here. So I would love to see the team go all in on something like this, it could be really special… but for what it is now, its repetive boring tower defense stuff once the game exhausts its charm… and then its onto online, capture the flag, team tower defense, hoard mode, and the family friendly version of a call of duty team death match..andfor me personally, the death match is where all of the fun is outside of the first hour of this games campaign,
    youre on team plants or zombies, each chratcer has unique abilities and trates to make no 2 matches the same if you don’t want them to be… and you have even gain experience and level these characters up… but again the charm just evaporates… theres so much character depth here in battle for neighborville, theres so much potential.. theres just no great game to go with the grear mechanics and variety… I say scrap this cod wanna be and become a Mario wanna be.. this 3d world of plants vs zombies has so much potential, and right now its being wasted in the bargain bin… battle for neighborville offers about 4 hours of fun, it has everything in it to be amazing.. but its potential just isn’t fully realized and that breaks my heart.
    I give Plants vs Zombies Battle for Neighborville
    a 7/10    … Expand
  26. Kuyamorayota
    Jan 4, 2021
    6
    It is a fine game on its own but it is a HUGE downgrade from garden warfare 1/2 the most notable one being replayability
  27. 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.
  28. 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
  29. jtpduffe
    Sep 3, 2020
    10
    I'd honestly give the game a real 20. This series, as a whole, is one of the best of all time. Neighborville is no exception. I've played so many shooters, from the earliest CODs and Battlefields through Fortnite, Splatoon, Overwatch... This, and Garden Warfare 2 are 2 of the best shooters of all time. The only problem is that there aren't enough maps. Incredible team play, characterI'd honestly give the game a real 20. This series, as a whole, is one of the best of all time. Neighborville is no exception. I've played so many shooters, from the earliest CODs and Battlefields through Fortnite, Splatoon, Overwatch... This, and Garden Warfare 2 are 2 of the best shooters of all time. The only problem is that there aren't enough maps. Incredible team play, character classes, Disney level modelling. Just great. So much fun.… Expand
  30. Dr_Trolleur
    Aug 27, 2020
    3
    This game is the worst pvz I never saw >:( ! keep gw2 it's better. bfn is bad...
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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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