Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

 PlayStation 4
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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 357 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 235 out of 357
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 357
  3. Negative: 34 out of 357
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  1. ThatOneStupid
    May 31, 2023
    8
    The pinnacle of 3RD Person Shooters.
    Multiple unique characters with their own unique abilities, paired with several different variants of each character adds endless replayability.
    Several different gamemodes and tons of cosmetics.
    So much more content at release than most other AAA games that release today.
  2. William_Trigos
    May 14, 2023
    8
    Very fun game to play with friends and that gives a twist to the games of plants vs. zombies of a lifetime
  3. Daviwaru
    Mar 19, 2023
    9
    Um ótimo jogo de tiro de planos vs zombies, com uma jogabilidade muito boa.
  4. elliot5
    Oct 6, 2022
    10
    (10/10) - Honestly my favorite shooter game. I grinded this game like crazy over Summer 2014.
  5. PaulaTLD
    Aug 23, 2022
    8
    Excelente juego para pasar el rato, las partidas son entretenidas y los demas modos tambien, muchas horas de juego y lo sigo jugando.
  6. SCIZ0R
    Jun 11, 2022
    8
    Skip to part 5 if you wanna see my opinion. Sorry for making this like a school essay.

    Plants bs zombies garden warfare is a game made in febuary 25th, 2014. It is a 3rd person shooter and a Huge jump from the defense games. Today I will be reviewing things from this game! Part 1: game modes: the first game mode is garden ops, in this mode you have to defend your lovely garden from 10    Skip to part 5 if you wanna see my opinion. Sorry for making this like a school essay.

    Plants bs zombies garden warfare is a game made in febuary 25th, 2014. It is a 3rd person shooter and a Huge jump from the defense games. Today I will be reviewing things from this game!
    Part 1: game modes: the first game mode is garden ops, in this mode you have to defend your lovely garden from 10 waves, or endless if you do co-op, of zombies. Pretty self explanatory.
    The second-fourth game mode is welcome mat, team vanquish and classic team vanquish,
    Welcome mat is team vanquish, but every kill or death you get, you get more health!
    Team vanquish is a mode where you and your fellow plant/zombies friends try to get 50 vanquishes! Classic team vanquish is literally team vanquish but only starter classes.
    Garden and grave yards is a mode where you capture a plant or zombie base by standing in it, and in the last base there’s ether a golf ball you gotta push, denoting bombs, or shooting a giant sun flower! :subrnation is kinda like capture the flag but you don’t bring a flag to your base. Vanquish confirmed is like team vanquish, but you gotta collect dead tokens from knocked players to ad vanquishes. Part 2: plant abilities:
    Pea shooter can shoot out a chili bean bomb that acts like an gernade, his pea gatling is like a minigun, but you can’t move with it. And the most annoying ability in the WHOLE entire game, hyper. I will explain at the end of this review. Chomper has spike weeds to trap zombies in to swallow them easily. He can burrow under ground to ether get to a place faster or eat a zombie from under. He also has goop that makes zombies a lot more slower, one flaw about the chomper is that he can easily get knocked down by stun gernades, and can’t swallow an engineer in a jack hammer.
    :sun flower: sun flower can heal people and herself with the heal beam and the sun flower pot. She has a beam ability kinda like how pea shooter has one. Cactus is a sniper plant that can send out a drone, potato mines, and wall nuts for protection.: chapter 3: zombie ability’s: foot soldier has a jet rocket to make you get to high roofs, and a rpg shooty thing to easily knock out plants. Engineer can use a jack hammer to get to places faster, and can build a teleporter!
    Scientist can teleport and heal team mates, and place little mines to blow up plants.
    All star can use a blocking thingy like wall nuts, he can do a powerfull charge and a imp bomb!
    Chapter four: variants: variants are different types of classes In the game. The variants are: fire: electric: toxic, auto and semi.
    Each plant atleast has one of these. ——SKIP TO THIS PART IF YOU WANT A FULL ON PART REVIEW Chapter 5: full honest opinion: this game can be quite fun! Especially getting kill streaks, or playing modes with your friends for like 5 hours. The only flaw is that now, servers are not to active so modes like vanquish confirmed, gnome bomb are not to active. And annoying ways people play as characters. Such as pogo peas, there a pain in the ass if your on zombies team. They constantly bunny hop to not get targeted, and if the hyper is done, they run for there dam life. Plus, the ranking system is pretty bad so it could take years to get to 313. Ignoring those flaws, this would be a 10/10 game. I think it’s a 8.5.    … Expand
  7. Id1KK
    May 4, 2022
    10
    this is probably the best (or at least one of the best) shooters to come out of the 2010s.
  8. ShapeOfGaming
    Oct 29, 2021
    8
    Actually that is my game of the year. It breaks my heart i cant give it a 10. Such a fun, charmful and lovely designed game, which I played hundreds of hours with my friends, but tragically, they ruined it with not balancing the characters. The Z4 is overpowered. and its just game breaking that you can respawn during fight so it wont influence your K/D rate. Very disappointing that theyActually that is my game of the year. It breaks my heart i cant give it a 10. Such a fun, charmful and lovely designed game, which I played hundreds of hours with my friends, but tragically, they ruined it with not balancing the characters. The Z4 is overpowered. and its just game breaking that you can respawn during fight so it wont influence your K/D rate. Very disappointing that they never changed that. Especially effecting the chomper. During swallowing sequence one can just respawn and the chomper wont get the kill and coins but still has the digestion cooldown.… Expand
  9. Ottalaus_saus
    Oct 6, 2021
    10
    First game I ever platinumed. Probably my favorite game of all time. It's a more goofy form of pvp multiplayer shooters which is just lovely
  10. Greenlanter167
    Aug 27, 2021
    8
    Отлична игра в серии, жаль нет русского языка.
  11. JACOBJORDANBA
    Jun 24, 2021
    10
  12. MaddoxWhite
    Apr 24, 2021
    8
    Weird spinoff. Somehow, though, pretty fun? Completely different from the OG, though.
  13. PaupiTLD
    May 21, 2018
    10
    Normalmente no soy de jugar juegos que tienen solo online , pero me sorprendió , me divirtió todos los modos de juego que tiene , el de defender la base es mi favorito , es un juego para todas las edades y te puedes divertir mucho!
  14. badfantasyrx
    Sep 15, 2016
    9
    Great FPS- First Person Shooter. Lots of mods so that you can customize your character and the sticker packs are a great way to add an element of chance and a good remand for the coin reward system. Great to play with your kids, it'll stay entertaining and you can show off different characters, teach them to budget etc.

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  15. NihiRagnarK
    Apr 10, 2016
    9
    This game is so fun to play.
    The characters are cute and the gameplay is hilarious for most of the time.
    I have reached level 100 before I really moved on to another game and I think this is my favorite online PVP shooting game so far.
  16. Silverzapper
    Mar 9, 2016
    10
    This game is remarkable for the shear fact that it's made by EA and isn't terrible. I played this so much. There are extremely varied character classes, all of which I enjoy playing as. This is a great game.
  17. emiplaynintendo
    Dec 31, 2015
    8
    First of all,this game is great,you can play as the zombies,its better than any other pvz game but it doesnt have a lot of plants and zombies classes and it doesnt have missions or anything like missions,if you want this game, buy it with fifa 16 or wait for pvz garden warfare 2 because I saw that pvz garden warfare 2 has missions,more classes of zombies and plants,and it just has a lot ofFirst of all,this game is great,you can play as the zombies,its better than any other pvz game but it doesnt have a lot of plants and zombies classes and it doesnt have missions or anything like missions,if you want this game, buy it with fifa 16 or wait for pvz garden warfare 2 because I saw that pvz garden warfare 2 has missions,more classes of zombies and plants,and it just has a lot of things to do,I give it a 8.6 out of 10… Expand
  18. homer4president
    Nov 18, 2015
    8
    I honestly feel like this game is more for people who enjoy online games but can't get into games like battlefield or call of duty. It's very easy to get into and the overall design of the game is very kid friendly. And yes, you need PlayStation plus to play this game (seriously, why is this a surprise? Sony said it many times that you need to pay to play online.)
  19. kuletzki
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Highly addictive game. Thought the basic characters are gonna get boring but you get more and more unlocked characters as you play the game. Every character changes your gameplay and brings your interest more into the game.
  20. Sparkticle
    Nov 6, 2015
    9
    This game is surprisingly great! Smooth graphics, fun gameplay, responsive controls, lots of content, game modes and so on. You can play co-op, you can play versus multiplayer, and it's just a whole lot of fun. There's no reason to NOT try out this game. If you need a shooter to play and you are bored of your usual dude-bro titles, then this will be a fine pick for you.
  21. AMMANN7
    Sep 7, 2015
    8
    8/10

    PvZ: Garden Warfare might not be as fun and addicting as PvZ 2 ut it sure is awesome

    + Third-Perosn Shooter
    + Character designs
    + Characters are characterized by classes
    + Zombies
    + Design

    - Online only
    - Few modes
  22. houyi111
    Aug 3, 2015
    8
    A very fun game. I like the art-style and all the classes, each class has distinct power and ability which make all of them valid. the game modes are good and fun. My wife and I have a great time with this game. However, the split screen gets boring after a few tries. The match making is totally off balance. the hit detection sometimes feels way off. all in all, a decent game for fun time
  23. JakeZielsdorf
    Aug 2, 2015
    10
    Endless fun. This game is as goofy and colorful as can be with the mechanics to match. I'm incredibly glad this game exists amongst the myriad photorealistic FPSs. I absolutely love the art style. The cosmetic customization is hilarious with innumerable options. It's hands-down one the best games I've ever played.
  24. Danbliz
    Jul 16, 2015
    9
    Una grata sorpresa fue este juego. El modo defender la base es de lo mejor que tiene. Cada personaje cumple su función. La música excelente. Tiene varios elementos desbloqueables que le da mucha vida útil.
  25. lydianfanfare
    Jun 10, 2015
    8
    This game is a surprising joy.

    Pros: **First and foremost, although this game has micro-transactions, everything can be earned **The colorful and crazy world of Plants vs. Zombies stands in stark contrast to the dark and dismal first-person-shooters that it mimics. It's fun, light-hearted, and refreshing. **Unlockables are satisfying to gain **Leveling each character is interesting    This game is a surprising joy.

    Pros:
    **First and foremost, although this game has micro-transactions, everything can be earned
    **The colorful and crazy world of Plants vs. Zombies stands in stark contrast to the dark and dismal first-person-shooters that it mimics. It's fun, light-hearted, and refreshing.
    **Unlockables are satisfying to gain
    **Leveling each character is interesting
    **Boss mode for iPad/Android

    Cons:
    **Local split-screen support is abysmal. Why even include it for one mode which you can't play online, and the second player can't even use their account or any of their unlockables or earn anything at all? My wife and I play the snot out of this game, and would love more modes in split-screen. See Borderlands: The Handsome Collection for clues on how this should be.
    **Sometimes-awkward matchmaking

    My wife and I love playing this game, but mostly we just wish we could play together on one system. The single local split-screen mode is a tease, and only serves to make us wish there was more. Still, the game is fun, and a good value. Thank you for being honest by not releasing this as a $60 game!    … Expand
  26. LVeldhuizen
    May 17, 2015
    8
    This game is a blast to play! Its simple look and easy controls don't make it be an easy or boring game. It's addicting with a lot of variety in game-modes to play and customising and upgrading your character. Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is a very special and fun third person shooter.
  27. emlugo123
    Feb 23, 2015
    8
    The zombies are actually humorous and so are the costumes that you can put on them. This game feels new and fresh. Even as a 19 year old in college, I have a lot of fun in this game and it is very addicting! Although I feel like the card packs that you can get with in-game currency are just a *tad* pricy. Other than that, this game plays and looks great!
  28. Munkey
    Feb 14, 2015
    8
    The plants vs zombies modern warfare is the best shooter on the PS4 in 2014! To be fair it's still the best multiplayer shooter even after Evolve. What makes it good? It's simplicite, fast pace action and interesting player progression. Each character on every side has it counter. It's easy to play and fast to learn.
    There aren't that many game modes but the two which I play are the PvZ    The plants vs zombies modern warfare is the best shooter on the PS4 in 2014! To be fair it's still the best multiplayer shooter even after Evolve. What makes it good? It's simplicite, fast pace action and interesting player progression. Each character on every side has it counter. It's easy to play and fast to learn.
    There aren't that many game modes but the two which I play are the PvZ variation of team deathmatch and rush. Maps are very intetesting and colorful with a night or day variant.
    You can buy booster pack for the currency you earny in game. You can get skins for different characters, consumables and customiazation parts to change your look like hats, glases and so on.
    It's funy, very addictive and the team deathmatch is quick do you can get 3-4 matches in 30 minutes.
    Played Killzone SF, CoD AW and BF4 and to be honest PvZ Garden Warfare is the best multiplayer shooter on the PS4 and it's cheaper. Grab it play it and have fun!
    8 out of 10 for me!    … Expand
  29. Charlinger
    Feb 12, 2015
    8
    Game and captivating and with great gameplay, ask only small errors that sometimes catch by the movement of the character.

    Despite having a microtransaction scheme is not something mandatory, all can be enabled with playing time.
  30. BaronMonaco
    Feb 12, 2015
    8
    Plants Vs Zombies may not have the marketing budget of Destiny, Evolve or Titanfall, but make no mistakes it's the best multiplayer experience available on Next-Gen consoles. A nice, original and welcoming universe; fun for kids and adults alike. Nice cartoon graphics, very well balanced characters each with their own attribute (basically : Assault, Tank, Engineer, and Healer). All are funPlants Vs Zombies may not have the marketing budget of Destiny, Evolve or Titanfall, but make no mistakes it's the best multiplayer experience available on Next-Gen consoles. A nice, original and welcoming universe; fun for kids and adults alike. Nice cartoon graphics, very well balanced characters each with their own attribute (basically : Assault, Tank, Engineer, and Healer). All are fun to play and offers some unique characteristics and nice customization.
    And here is what this game rocks, in Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare, developers respect gamers and you don't have to pay for any little thing in addition of the basic content. The game works with a system of stickers and with a stickershop to unlock new characters, upgrades or skins. In the gaming industry of today most of us will be afraid when reading those words, but in THIS game the system is really fair, you don't need to buy coins to unlock the best characters, just play and you'll earn enough coins to buy dozens of them. In the same spirit the game received free updates with new game mode and maps, how amazing is this nowadays ?
    With a handful of classic multiplayer modes revisited by this colourful universe the game offers quite enough content to spend a lot of quality time (I've just earned the platinum after 25 hours of gameplay and I still want more).
    It's really the best multiplayer around but I won't gave it a 10 out of 10 because there is no solo mode and that means that in a few month maybe years if the community stick with it, the servers will close and the game will have no use. It's a shame as there is clearly enough potential to do a crazy/cool/fun solo campaign.    … Expand
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#63 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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#46 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2014
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#47 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2014

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Oct 29, 2014
    40
    There's just too much wrong at the grass roots level. [Nov 2014, p.92]
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Sep 21, 2014
    83
    As good as the Xbox One release, Garden Warfare is very funny and entertaining but it's not a tough competitor for Call of Duty or Battlefield.
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  3. Play UK
    Sep 18, 2014
    71
    It's crying out for a larger selection of maps and a few more top-tier game modes, but Garden Warfare remains highly entertaining all the same. [Issue#248, p.64]
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