{"id":16598,"date":"2017-07-05T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16598"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:01:03","slug":"neighborhorde-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/neighborhorde-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhorde (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So we\u2019ve all had this happen to us before.\u00a0 You\u2019re sitting inside with your buddies playing video games and your mom makes you get up and go outside.\u00a0 And that\u2019s exactly what happens in this game.\u00a0 But the outside neighborhood is filled with robots and ninjas and wizards and you must use your imagination to conjure up all sorts of silly weapons to defend yourselves.\u00a0 Neighborhorde is a twin stick couch multiplayer shooter with an emphasis on teamwork.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

So when you start the game, you pick from four characters sitting on the couch.\u00a0 They include a deer, ram, bear, and rabbit.\u00a0 You can unlock more later.\u00a0 When you start the game, you and your friends will be outside, and bots will control the rest of the players.\u00a0 Move with the left stick and aim with the right stick, and fire with the R2 button.\u00a0 Your initial weapon is just punches, but if you can pick up a present, you\u2019ll get a random weapon like frisbees, snowballs, water pistols, pillows, boxing gloves, flash cameras, and more.\u00a0 You must survive waves of enemies and bosses to make it to the next wave.\u00a0 At the beginning of each wave you\u2019ll be able to select a new random weapon in the level and\/or a buffer to help you out.\u00a0 When all four players are close together, they\u2019ll be inside a circle and everyone will automatically heal.\u00a0 So you\u2019ll all want to stick close together and not venture too far apart to survive.\u00a0 When all four players are defeated, you\u2019re grounded and it\u2019s Game Over.<\/p>\n

You can select two difficulty levels: Easy and Normal.\u00a0 But even the easy setting is pretty tough.\u00a0 And you can only earn tickets on the Normal setting.\u00a0 Use tickets you\u2019ve earned to buy new characters, accessories, and even new suburban setting stages.\u00a0 Aside from the difficulty, the game has a few other problems.\u00a0 The sound effects are rather ear-splitting, and there are already too many twin stick shooters in the indie game download only market.\u00a0 Plus I wish you could just shoot by pointing the right stick, but I know they did this to help you conserve and manage your ammo.\u00a0 Also, the game is only truly fun when you have four buddies over to play.\u00a0 And there is no online feature either.\u00a0 I imagine they did this since I think the whole point of the game is to be couch multiplayer (since the title screen even starts out with the characters on the couch), but online would\u2019ve been nice for those of us who have a hard time getting that many people together.\u00a0 But if you do have a lot of gamer friends you get to see a lot, you may want to check this one out anyway.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neighborhorde is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Crude Humor.\u00a0 You use silly weapons at equally silly enemies who just disappear when defeated.\u00a0 And the simplistic visuals keep the violence from looking too graphic anyway.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we\u2019ve all had this happen to us before.\u00a0 You\u2019re sitting inside with your buddies playing video games and your mom makes you get up and go outside.\u00a0 And that\u2019s exactly what happens in this game.\u00a0 But the outside neighborhood is filled with robots and ninjas and wizards and you must use your imagination to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16600,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions\/16600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}