"PVZ: Peace Town Defense" review: Win or lose doesn't matter, anyway I shoot

The first impression of shooting games is usually a "difficult" word, this "difficult" from the game's high competitive requirements, and some games are unusual, compared to "PUBG", "OW" or "R6" of the "serious" competition, it integrates a lot of humor and satire elements in the game. And succeeded in controlling the overall atmosphere of the game in the theme of leisure and entertainment, it is Plants vs. Zombies: The Battle of Peace Town.

Before we talk about it, let's take a look at its predecessor, uh... Maybe it should be called "ex-antecedents"?

The original "Plants vs. Zombies" was born in 2009 after the fire across the Internet, countless players immersed in this lovely style of tower defense game can not extricate themselves, five years later launched a new type of shooting game "Plants vs. Zombies: Garden War" began to share a share of the multiplayer shooting game market. It turns out that the bold attempt of Pokkai Games has won a good response, both adults and teenagers love this fun "no serious" TPS.

This year is the 10th anniversary of the birth of the original "Plants vs. Zombies", although the traditional tower defense sequel is not as hot as before, TPS type works have two generations of "garden war" to get player praise, October 18 landing EA's Origin platform released "Plants vs. Zombies: The game became the third TPS game based on the "Plants vs. Zombies" IP.

The fact that this game does not use the name Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Wars 3 is a point of confusion for many old players of the series, as if to tell players that this is an innovative work, and the expansion of the title from "garden" to "town" seems to have some more meaning.

After entering the game, unlike the interface similar to "OW" in my imagination, players can directly enter their own manor, and only the choice of manor can be found that this is a game for most players, players are not limited to a common online game "online hall", the producer gives different types of players full choices.

Have about friends can directly choose the "public" manor, where you can see the players with the server to communicate with each other, do not like to communicate "lone Wolf" can choose in the "private" and "private AI", the latter can let your manor a lot of AI walking around, so that the manor is not too empty, a lot of anger.

The design of the menu as a small map is undoubtedly a clever idea that fits the spirit of the game's leisure and entertainment, and the tutorial also begins the moment the player arrives at the manor, the system first teaches the player to move, is how to communicate with other players through interactive expressions or actions, which directly leads the player to the core of the game's multiplayer mode - communication.

Concise and clear function introduction

As for how to make players better communication, producers can say "worry heartbroken." In addition to the first "menu map" where you can directly communicate with strangers, there is also a lot of work on character design. Compared to other games, the PVP mode of Plants vs. Zombies: Friendly Town Defense is obviously more emphasis on cooperation between players, and the output of strong characters are mostly vulnerable, which requires them to master their own defense character's shield skills release time, and vice versa.

It's not a good choice to confront an enemy who has mastered the art of sheep transformation

For players who are used to multiple people opening black, in addition to a maximum of 24 people to meet the needs of the multiplayer competition, you can also choose some specific with the role composition routine. One of the most intuitive combinations is that four astronaut zombies in the zombie camp can be combined into a space station, which appears in the shooting game of the combination of gameplay more clearly the game's "Houbi" style. In single-player mode, this "badass" is more obvious.

Optional "douche bag"

After entering the game, the manor can go to two different standalone maps, each map has a series of missions. Most of these tasks are very "silly", such as helping some zombies who have become like humans to restore their zombie nature and not be "infected" by humans. Although most of these missions can not piece together an overall comprehensive world view, the form of missions are somewhat similar, but thanks to the excellent combat system, it is difficult for players to get bored during the game.

In the single-player mode of Plants vs. Zombies: The Battle of Peace Town, players can enter a different map than their own manor, in addition to the missions and random enemy camp characters. The level of these random enemies is divided according to a certain quality, the "king" level of the enemy most have their own skin dressing up, defeating the enemy appeared in the ground resources undoubtedly become the shooting game in addition to the "head shot" and other mechanisms of the reward, the player's role strength can not be "unparalleled", flexible use of skills and walk is very important.

There will also be a special event "war time" after defeating a certain enemy on the map, players are not always single combat, the system will randomly assign players some AI teammates, which makes the experience of single-player mode closer to the multiplayer mode, the ritual sense of "fighting for the camp" is strengthened, and the pleasure after victory is also upgraded.

The graphics and sound changes on low HP

The value of single-player mode is not only for single-player players, even players who are fully focused on multiplayer mode can gain experience in single-player mode and upgrade their favorite characters to unlock more talents. There are more than 20 characters in the Plant and zombie camps, each with their own talent unlocked with their level, learning combat skills in the fun single-player mode, gaining experience to unlock more powerful talents against the multiplayer mode is undoubtedly a good choice.

In addition to experience, the reward for completing the quest is tokens, which can be used to upgrade the character level or "unbox" upon returning to the manor. Mention "unboxing" is necessary to mention "krypton gold", due to the balance that must exist in competitive games, the player's krypton gold can only be used for "unboxing" to get dressed up. But even if you don't go to "krypton gold", a large number of missions in single-player mode and multiplayer mode can provide players with resources such as tokens, reducing the need for "krypton gold".

You can ship without money.

This design compared to some "non-krypton" games will undoubtedly make players more favorable, but also more willing to give the game more time, after all, "Plants vs. Zombies: Peace Town Defense" game itself is very good. This is thanks to the original generation of "Plants vs. Zombies" on different plants or zombie character, whether it is honest peas, lovely and cheap sunflower or powerful superman zombie are very interesting, let people can't help but try new roles.

In addition to the four single-player modes with two maps and two camps, the multiplayer mode is also rich in content. The battle mode of shooters is now very mature, so we can see some familiar multiplayer shooter modes in Plants vs. Zombies: Peace Town Defense, such as the "demolition mode" of planting and disarming bombs, the "occupy mode" of attacking and defending different points, and the more straightforward "team game" of winning by meeting the kill count.

The game features a tower defense mode "Garden graveyard battle" from the "Plants vs. Zombies" classic tower defense gameplay, players can place items in fixed locations on the map, the plant zombie camp is different. In this mode, the gameplay is somewhat close to the traditional "Plants vs. Zombies", and the players' characters have become some kind of "mobile defense tower", and the game strategy and player cooperation are more demanding, although the overall depth of the combat system is not enough, but the fun is first class.

"Plants vs. Zombies: Peace Town Defense" as the original "Plants vs. Zombies" after the 10th anniversary of the launch of the third work in the field of shooting games, the overall level of the previous game "garden war" excellent, although the removal of the change system of the previous game to reduce the choice of characters, but the rich single player mode and a variety of multiplayer modes are still worth the player experience.

Special combat mode in single player mode

The easy entertainment that is difficult to experience in shooting games is almost accompanied by players throughout the game, in this interesting and exciting atmosphere, winning and losing seem to have become secondary. Regardless of the outcome, players will always be able to experience the fun of this game, and the experience of this fun is the biggest difference between it and the same type of games.