Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare Playstation 3

[SavannahLion]

Once again, without my express consent, my wife takes my eight year old son to buy a new game. (I'm typing this as she yaps on about something I'm not interested in. Bills or credit cards or some ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  )

Last time she did this, he picked out a racing game that he thought would be like GTA (I blame the 15 year old who is now banned from all versions of GTA for life). Since we couldn't return it because Toys 'R' Us is full of crap, I ended up buying him the Lego Movie as compensation and losing the game in my collection.

This time, he picked out Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare for the PS3. Not as big a deal, except for that damn multiplayer component. I try to avoid having him play online games since I don't like to sit there and watch him. The talking part is what bothers me. Those games that don't allow speech don't bother me one bit. The speech portion bothers me, but the Plus bit bothers me even more. Probably because money is involved. At least my wife wised up, and prevented my son from opening the package and kept the receipt.

So that said. I can't seem to get a straight answer about the online portion of the game. Does PvZ:GW require Plus or does it not? I can live with it being online only, I just don't feel like shelling a monthly fee for the damn Plus. Yes, I think Plus is lame and have no intention of paying for it. Not for the PS3 anyways.

Too bad I didn't shell out for the One this year. Bleh..... ---smurfing--- money mongrels.

Amazon lists it as requiring Plus, but the comments say only the PS4 version does. Sony's website seems to lump comments for both versions together. And comments regarding this detail seem to be all over the map. Reviews never mention either. And I can't find the actual manual for this specific version.

Anyone have the PS3 version can confirm or deny this detail?

[DGP]

The game is a blast, one of the more fun shooters out there honestly but it is an online based game only. It has a mode called Garden Ops that can be played sp or co-op against cpu controlled zombies but even that requires the online connection (PS4 version has split screen for this mode). I have the PS4 and PC versions but I do not think any PS3 game requires Plus to play online, I seem to recall Sony saying that online play would remain free on PS3.

Best of luck
 

[jennifer]

   Free, paid, whatever, The last thing your kid is going to want to hear is "This game is going back"....Especially after being banned for life on the awesome GTA.

[Ginsu Victim]

PS3 doesn't require Plus to play online games. They saw how much money Microsoft was raking in with Live Gold and pulled that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- on PS4 players instead.

[SavannahLion]

Thanks for the info guys.

   Free, paid, whatever, The last thing your kid is going to want to hear is "This game is going back"....Especially after being banned for life on the awesome GTA.

The fifteen year old is banned from GTA because she doesn't grasp the concept of not playing until after the little ones go to bed. Not to mention she freaks out for several nights thinking that Tommy Vercetti is going to climb in her window at night. Same reason she is banned from anything else made by Rockstar or Take-Two, the dead, walking or otherwise, anything involving ghosts scarier than Casper, and about 90% of horror films made after 1980.

She sneaks in episodes of Scream (the TV show) for an hour and has to stay up for two hours watching My Little Pony and Uncle Grandpa to calm her nerves. I still have to deal with her nightmares.

I was about 9 or 10 the first time I saw Nightmare on Elm Street, Predator and House all in the same night. That was one ---smurfing--- awesome party.

My younger two have a much better grip on these kind of things.

Believe me, if she actually waited until after the little ones go to bed AND didn't freak out so much, she could have at it.

[jennifer]

    Jennifer still freaks out at scary movies, Guess we never get all grown up .... It is nice to hear that you do allow them the inside track on the "New" games. and console tech. Has to be alot safer than our day... 10 Years old and hanging out at the pool hall.

[SavannahLion]

I'm one gen behind the curve. I'm aching to get that WiiU but money says otherwise. Oh well, I'm applying for a promotion for a bit of extra cash. Not an SE job but we'll see if it works out.

The teen is a bit on the sensitive side and socially inept which makes things difficult for her.

[Ginsu Victim]

about 90% of horror films made after 1980.

There are plenty of horrifying films from the 70s alone.

[SavannahLion]

70's movies is a bit sketchy. She watched Jaws and Body Snatchers without batting an eye but Little Monsters and Gremlins scares the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of her, that's where I get the cutoff from. B&W films bore the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of her. I haven't tried any of the hardcore films yet so she hasn't seen Aliens, Texas Chainsaw or anything like that yet.

Her favorite "horror" films are those lame Shark-week flicks like Sharknado but they don't usually scare her. I had a real good time with that Megalodon and Mermaid mockumentaries though. She wouldn't touch ocean water for something like three months. The Megalodon one even convinced the daycare people and were rife with cautionary tales as we set out for a day in the water. 

[Ginsu Victim]

70's movies is a bit sketchy. She watched Jaws and Body Snatchers without batting an eye but Little Monsters and Gremlins scares the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of her

Those last two aren't 70s.

[SavannahLion]

70's movies is a bit sketchy. She watched Jaws and Body Snatchers without batting an eye but Little Monsters and Gremlins scares the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of her

Those last two aren't 70s.

.... the rest of the sentences is:

, that's where I get the cutoff from.

Though I probably should have said...
....., that's where I get the 80's cutoff from