Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville just launched officially on October 18, but it had five weeks before that for Founding Neighbors to get some early access time with the game as PopCap added features and tuned characters and modes. As a huge fan of the previous third-person shooter outings pitting flora against the undead, I was eager to jump in after what?s felt like far too long a wait since Garden Warfare 2. While the first few weeks had some ups and downs, there?s a reason that was an early launch period ahead of official release, and things have come together nicely in Neighborville.
Somehow the Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare series has frequently ripped ideas straight from other popular games, but never felt like it was simply a goofy emulation of those titles. I mean, the series? shady gnome vendor is named Rux, a direct reversal of Destiny?s own shady vendor Xur. And look at the very title of the past games: Garden Warfare, a play on Call of Duty?s Modern Warfare sub-franchise. And yet, for everything it parodies, it manages to do so much that?s entirely original as well, much of which probably stands out far more than the small in-jokes and references made throughout.
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