There's many circumstances where games can offer extremely fun and addicting gameplay by just being well structured, offering a lot of content unified with good gameplay, this creates an organic relationship between game and player. One of these cases can, absolutely, be attached to Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare.

The game is extremely well balanced, there's no OP character that's just annoying to see on a match or the character that no one uses because there's just no point on doing so, all 8 options have their advantages and disadvantages, all of them being unique, creating a great feeling when you discover your favorite to play. Characters also have variants that impact gameplay, which is the highlight of the game, it's always great to unlock a new variant and use it to see all the changes compared to the original counterpart, and maybe seeing it becoming your favorite to use.

Unlocking systems are fair and satisfying to go after, of course you could just pay to get mostly everything, it's an EA game, but doing so won't make you get any sort of advantage, because skill is more important than everything in this game, recapturing the well balanced aspect again. Customizations are really cool and nice to mess with, always a fantastic feeling when you complete a page from the sticker book with all the customizations for a character, and there's a lot of them for you to immerse yourself in this universe and customize your character the way you feel like it.

The aspect of Plants against Zombies is really well done, tons of different modes to put this concept at proof, shout out to Gardens and Graveyards for being the absolute best idea ever for a game like this. Also the classic formula of waves from the original PvZ game was really well translated and adapted to Garden Warfare in Garden Ops, a blast to play with friends, although it can get old pretty fast.

Soundtrack is fantastic, memorable intense tracks that get you pumped for action or just slow catchy vibes for you to enjoy. Maps are great with amazing map design, where players can get really creative creating their own places to hide, cover, shoot etc. Visuals are good with unique art direction, gameplay is fun and can be enjoyed by everyone, it's the classic formula of easy to learn but hard, and very satisfying, to master.

Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare is a love letter to the franchise, adapting it the best way possible to a multiplayer third-person shooter, sure it has problems, every game does, could have a little more variety on the content and some gameplay modes could've been better, some of them are completely absent of players because they're just not so interesting, but by the end of the day, the game serves with majesty it's purpose, a fun ride in a garden with zombies for you to pop up, or vice versa.

Reviewed on May 29, 2022


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