It's been 10 years since Plants vs. Zombies was last seen on a Nintendo console. Gracing the DS and DSiWare back in 2011, the series continued with Garden Warfare, but those sequels always stuck to rival platforms. Until now.
Previously rumoured for Switch, EA has revealed Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville: Complete Edition is coming to the console on March 19th, 2021.
Marking the first Switch game developed on EA's Frostbite Engine, this third-person shooter sees us visiting Neighborville, where the war between flora and undead carries on. As a complete edition, it contains all previous content from the PlayStation, Xbox and PC editions, including post-launch updates.
Within their press release, EA outlined what Switch owners can expect:
In Plants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville Complete Edition, players can tackle hilarious missions and defeat epic bosses to collect medals and unlock dangerously superb outfits. In addition, players will have access to 23 fully customizable characters, including a Team Play class for each faction, and all cosmetic items ever released - all available as in-game unlockables, without any premium store or currency. Players can play offline, party with up to three friends or dive into some 8v8 multiplayer - vanquishing opponents, blasting gnome bombs, and bouncing on pink ooze using motion controls for aiming, with a full range of settings to customize to players’ preference.
Speaking further about this upcoming release, Melvin Teo, Producer at PopCap Vancouver, also confirmed:
We are excited to bring everyone’s favorite Plants vs. Zombies™ characters to Nintendo Switch for the first time, giving players the ability to play in their homes or on the go, however they choose. The Switch’s motion controls allow us to try a fresh new take on Neighborville, and with its docked and portable play, we have the ability to bring the game and its characters to life in ways that weren’t possible before.
It'll retail for $39.99 and comes as EA's fourth confirmed Switch game since June. Having previously advised they'd release seven Switch games in that 12 month period, we'll be waiting a bit longer to discover what else EA has planned.
Will you be picking up Battle For Neighborville? Any other EA games you'd like to see ported to Switch? Let us know below.
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Garden Warfare 2 is better
Wow this game is dead on the other consoles and the developers stopped updating the game and stopped adding new stuff just after a year of support, a nice cash grab for EA here
they should have did GW2 instead of this dead trash, its hella glitchy on ps4 I bet its going to be worst on the switch.
Is popcap still alive?
Might give it a try since I enjoy the first one for DS.
certainly not my kind of game
This and Splatoon 3 are the only things that made me not regret watching the Direct.
I am just here to see if the troll who always claimed switch couldn't run frostbite engine shows up to declare he was completely wrong. Cant remember his username!
A lotta games like this in today's Direct.
I struggled to work out what was eshop only and physical or both pretty obvious the online multiplayer games are digital only. But games like Ninja Gaiden Master Collection and Outer Wilds they digital or physical or both? Haha sucks being old and wanting only physical games glad to be picking up Hades though.
I liked PWZ 2 better than this.
I was super excited for this when it was announced on PS4.. then I realized they left out the -variants- and I instantly was uninterested.. GW:2 was waaay better.. hopefully one day they’ll make a proper GW:3.. until then, PoPcap can pop a cap in itself for all I’m concerned
If it came out at the time at the others I 100% would've bought it on the switch for the kids. Too late for this one for us unfortunatley.
@HotGoomba I have never played it but my boys spent 100's of hours playing GW2 and they said they same thing
I've never played Plants VS Zombies but it sure looks a lot of fun. I like the quirkyness to it especially the different plant characters.
This game runs on Frostbite which is a first for the switch.
If this game sells well, we might get more EA games.
And
A proper FIFA
This doesn’t support local wireless play? At least it doesn’t say it does on the Eshop. That’s a fail.
I will certainly be buying this (not at launch probably) to show support for more Frostbite Engine games to switch.
This looks pretty fun and funny
@anoyonmus this needs to be confirmed.
@Qwertyninty what needs to be confirmed.
It is RUNNING on Frostbite.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/17/plants-vs-zombies-battle-for-neighborville-hits-switch-on-march-19/
https://www.ea.com/games/plants-vs-zombies/plants-vs-zombies-battle-for-neighborville/about/switch-features
@SalvorHardin Depends on what you call "alive". Plants vs Zombies 2 was the final nail in their coffin, even though the Popcap brand still exists on EA's paperwork...
I got Garden Warfare 2 for like 1.74 on ps4 and the community is still booming most days! It has been great fun and I even completed the tacked on little campaign bits. Not sure about this one, though.
this may be very bias since I'm nostalgic for the original pvz, but i really don't like the designs of a lot of the new plants. zombies look good tho
oh except that mushroom bc that mushroom kicks ass
I hope this comes out Physically at some point!!!
I just want SIMS 😭😂
Hella people still play this on Xbone that I see. I love PvZ ALL DAY! I'm gonna get this for sure to give it a second go around. Vote with your $$$ people! Let them know you still want PvZ! Eff' the haters!
@Jayofmaya just as good imo!
@SalvorHardin In name only, it died when EA bought it.
To add to what @anoyonmus said about Frostbite game engine, this is the first time the Frostbite game engine will be included in a Switch game. Frostbite is developed by DICE and is used for many EA games. The fact that they finally added Switch support for Frostbite is HUGE in terms of what can now be released.
If that still isn't clear, PvZ has been developed with Frostbite and the game engine didn't support Switch previously so of course EA/PopCap probably picked a title to pilot release that would yield a positive return on investment for the effort of adding support for a new platform. Given the latest sales figures on consoles, Switch is doing exceedingly well and this is really the right time to shift revenue sources while PS and XBOX are in transition.
If you look at the Wiki for Frostbite, it opens the playing field for games like Battlefield V and Star Wars: Battlefront 2 on Switch (and I guess niche games like Madden 21 if sportsball is your sorta thing). I would almost go as far as predict these releases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite_(game_engine)
@fullstackjack yeah I am right about that.
But tbh that doesn't mean we will see like Madden or Battlefield on switch tho.
Older battlefield games would be cool tho.
Not only is it the first time Frostbite is on NS, it is the first time Frostbite is on a Nintendo platform
@anoyonmus Meh, who cares about Madden anyway. I would love to see Battlefront II on Switch. I would buy it again even though I have it on XBOX One. I cancelled my XBOX Live years ago because it's too expensive compared to Nintendo Online and just play Splatoon 2 instead which is a lot of fun. Looking forward to PvZ though.
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