Review and Giveaway- Plants Vs. Zombies : Garden Warfare 2

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Review and Giveaway- Plants vs. Zombies : Garden Warfare 2plantsvszom

Recently my family had the chance to check out Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. Total thumbs up from this gamer family! From youngest to oldest, we loved it! I have a feeling there will be many hours, many fun times ahead! Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is an incredible game that brings the crazy cartoon world of the Plants vs Zombies franchise to the multiplayer shooter genre. The game expands on the ideas of the outstanding first game, offering new classes to play as with awesome abilities. These new classes can call in giant robotic mech that can attack foes for a short time. There are also new gamemodes in Garden Warfare 2, and these modes separate the series from the many multiplayer shooters that are out there. The game truly stands out as a unique experience unlike any other. Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 proves that the multiplayer franchise is here to stay, and it is better than ever.

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Overall, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a unique multiplayer experience with a wide variety of awesome gamemodes, new weapons, and new classes! The game takes the ideas of the first entry and reworks and expands on them to perfection. The game also includes an all-new single player mode, which can be played from the perspective of the Plants or the Zombies! There is also an extremely open map where players can explore. The single player also serves as a great way to get the hang of things before diving into the frantic and fun multiplayer action.Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2 (3)
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The game also looks absolutely stunning on the Xbox One system. running at 60 frames per second. The environments are all extremely detailed, and the game meets the graphical standard set by EA’s other titles like the Battlefield franchise and the stunning Star Wars: Battlefront! Garden Warfare 2 is a very fulfilling sequel, offering more of the content we all love as gamers while also bringing loads of new content to the franchise! In Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2,there is something for everyone. I absolutely love the game, and I can’t wait to see where the franchise goes in the future. Check out everything Plants vs. Zombies: Garden of Warfare 2 here and purchase one for yourself if it looks like your kind of game.

GIVEAWAY: Great news! I’m thrilled to say that Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is offering two lucky 3decades3kids readers each their own PS4 download code. Please enter on the rafflecopter below. Giveaway ends Saturday at 11:59pm. Winner will be contacted via email and have 24 hours to respond and claim prize. Prize delivery will be via email with a PS4 Code. 18+/usa. Thank you and Good luck.
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Disclosure: Diane Sullivan/3decades3kids is a PVZGW2 partner blog. We are a Gamer Family! No compensation was given for this post. An XboxOne preview and full code were issued to us in order to facilitate this review. This post is part of our #GamerFamily series.  Contact me at Diane@3decades3kids.net and @3decades3kids everywhere else. 

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate Review For Xbox One #Ubisoft

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Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate Review For Xbox One #Ubisoft Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate is the most incredible installment in the franchise yet. Featuring two playable protagonists, an interesting story, and unrivaled gameplay, this game is a must-have for fans of the series. Within the first hour of playing the game, I found myself infiltrating and sneaking my way through buildings, fighting enemies, and even getting into a brawl on top of a train. Syndicate features extremely tense and heart-pounding action sequences. Assassin's Creed: SyndicateA great new gameplay addition to the series is the Rope Launcher, which offers a new way to travel around the massive world that Ubisoft has created. The game’s world is very impressive. With many buildings to enter and people flooding the streets, Syndicate has the best scenery the series has seen so far. London is the perfect location for an Assassin’s Creed game, with its iconic locations and unique environments. It is very entertaining to explore the sprawling open world, and see all that is has to offer. Another great new gameplay addition is the ability to ride in a horse-in-carriage as you travel around London. This provides for new unique missions, and intense chases. It offers another way to travel through London’s streets, and sometimes offers a faster form of transportation for players.Assassin's Creed: SyndicateSyndicate has also improved the series’ freerunning system, making one button dedicated to ascending and the other dedicated to descending. This gives players more control over where they want to travel in the environment. The latest installment in the franchise also improves combat, and makes it even more cinematic than it was before. With new finishing moves, and a reworked hand-to-hand combat system, it has never felt better to get in an all-out brawl in an Assassin’s Creed title.

Overall, the game is spectacular, and one of my favorites in the series. The two protagonists have great chemistry, the enemy AI has been upgraded, the stealth is incredible as always, and the combat has never been better. Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate is the perfect Assassin’s Creed game, and I cannot wait to see what Ubisoft does with the series next! Check out Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate here.

ubistars_logo_badge_transparent (1)Disclosure: Diane Sullivan is a ubistars Official Blogger. Games are provided for the purpose of review. No compensation was provided for this post. All opinions are that of Diane Sullivan and honest. Contact me at Diane@3decades3kids.net and @3decades3kids everywhere else. This post is part of our #GamerFamily series.

 

Nintendo Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival #NintendoKidReviewers @Nintendo

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Nintendo Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival! This post is part of our #NintendoKidReviewers series and written by Emily Sullivan-age 9. Emily is an official game reviewer for Nintendo America.

animalcrossingemilyI received Nintendo Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival a few weeks ago and could not wait to play it! The game is 1-4 players with fun minigames!In the game the object is to collect happy points and bells.On each corner of the game board village you will get a corner of the stamp when you get all four corners of the stamp you will get a happy point bonus!You choose the month you will be playing in and will earn emotions and different outfits on the amiibos you use.There are eight different Animal Crossing Amiibos to use in the game.There are Amiibos of, Isabelle, K.K.Slider, Mabel, Tom Nook, Digby, Lottie, Reese, and Cyrus. If you have enough Happy Tickets you can open fun attractions.

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animalcrossing2You don’t need any happy tickets to play the Balloon Island game which is really fun! The other attractions usually need three, four, or five happy tickets to open and are also super fun! The attractions are Acorn Chase, Mystery Campers, Balloon Island, Quiz Show, Fruit Path, Amiibo Card Battle, Desert Island Escape, and Resetti Bop. All attractions can be played with Amiibo Cards.

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animalcrossingwiiuAmiibo Cards are like Amiibos, they can be used in different games, for different things. In Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival the Amiibo Cards can be used to play the attraction minigames. At the beginning of  the game the host or hostess will ask if everyone playing knows how to play the game, if you say no the host or hostess will explain the rules to the player or players. During the game watch out for purple spaces which are the bad spaces and pink spaces are good spaces, while Special Event spaces are usually green with a picture of the event they are for.Every Sunday Joan the turnip seller comes and you can choose to buy or not to buy the turnips. There is also twice dice day when you roll two dice instead of one! A fortune teller named Katrina that comes around with tarot cards on special event spaces.Redd the fox who sells special cards to you and the other players comes around sometimes too!Srunk comes to give you cards! You can use the card you earn from a mini-game or buy for 100 bells. You can carry two cards at one time. In the middle of the game there might be a bug off or a fishing tourney,during them you will land on a green, silver, or gold space. At the end of the game the host or hostess will announce who is in first, second, third, and fourth place.  My favorite part of the game is collecting all the Happy Points with the Amiibo characters! Check out more about Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival here. 

nintendokidreviewersDisclosure: This review was written by Emily Sullivan, age 9. Emily is an official Nintendo Kid Reviewer for Nintendo America. Emily hopes that this review helps your children to understand the game! This post is part of the #NintendoKidReviewers series. No compensation was given for this post. Samples products are sent to the house in order for the kids to review them. Contact me at Diane@3decades3kids.net and @3decades3kids everywhere else. 

Nintendo Christmas Crafts, Ornaments, Nametags! #Nintendo #NintendoKidReviewers

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Nintendo Christmas Crafts, Ornaments and Nametags Are Perfect!

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The holidays are here and we could not be any more excited! Today was the last day of school until next year. So, now the Christmas fun begins around here. There will be crafting, ornament making, gift wrapping and more going on in hopes of finishing it all off before the big day arrives on December 25th! Lucky for everyone that Nintendo has some fun activities in store to keep kids busy over the break and some amazing crafts for Christmas! Nintendo has added some amusing holiday- and winter-themed activities that are now live on Play.Nintendo, the official Nintendo site for kids, including a cute Nintendo ornament and wreath to make. We will be crafting and sharing everything we make via instagram and twitter at @3decades3kids.

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Check out Play.Nintendo and you’ll learn how to:

Add color to your tree with fun templates for ornaments that feature your favorite Nintendo games and characters. 

Discover tips & tricks to add some holiday flavor to Nintendo games, including Super Mario Maker, Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Yoshi’s Woolly World.

Use the fun templates to “tag your swag “with Nintendo-themed gift tags.

Show your love for Super Mario on your front door with a cute and easy guide to make a Mario-themed wreath.

Figure out which game is best for you — are you more of an inkling in Splatoon or a builder in Super Mario Maker?

Don’t forget to check out our Nintendo Gaming Gift Guide with top picks from the kids here: Nintendo Gamer Gift Guide

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Disclosure: 3decades3kids is a Nintendo Reviewer Kids site. Emily and Adam have partnered with Nintendo to give their honest opinion on gaming and products. Samples are provided throughout the year. Contact me at Diane@3decades3kids.net and @3decades3kids everywhere else. Happy  Holidays! This post is part of our #NintendoReviewerKids and #HolidayGiftGuide15 series. 

Calling All Gamers! Our #NintendoKidReviewers Gift Guide! @Nintendo

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Calling All Gamers. Our Nintendo Kid Reviewers Gift Guide!

Nintendogiftguide8Calling all gamers. Our Nintendo Kid Reviewers have the scoop on the kewlest games and amiibo this holiday season. Recently our family was treated to day of holiday shopping at Nintendo World NYC to check out all the latest gaming goods. It’s kind of one stop shopping for us! Having two game reviewers in the house means double the fun! So here go the picks. If you are a gamer or have kids that love to game we have you covered. 

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The kids love the amiibo figures. Our house is filled with them and I do not see and end in sight! Some of our favorites are Animal Crossing, Yarn Yoshi, Mario, Splatoon and more. They are so much fun to add to the gaming experience. For non gamers, an amiibo is a character figure (or a card) that gives you in-game extras in a wide variety of games for Nintendo systems. One figure might unlock a new character in one game, give you a new costume in another, and a power-up in yet another! Some of them can even battle with or against you in Super Smash Bros! They are a lot of fun to play with, and my children love using them in their Nintendo games, both on the Wii U and 3DS! I may even be a little bit obsessed with them myself!

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From Super Mario Maker, Skylanders SuperChargers,  Super Smash Brothers, Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival to Splatoon, there are so many choices and you just cannot choose wrong! The best part of all, GIRLS love to game, too! Until Emily came along, I viewed gaming as a boy thing. I could not be more wrong. My daughter loves gaming and really can put her brothers to the test in games like Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon. So if you are shopping for a boy or girl this Christmas, you need to look no farther than http://happyholidays.nintendo.com/ If you are not sure what game to buy, a gift card is always a great choice and will be just as welcome. 

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Disclosure: 3decades3kids is a Nintendo Reviewer Kids site. Emily and Adam have partnered with Nintendo to give their honest opinion on gaming and products. Samples are provided throughout the year. Contact me at Diane@3decades3kids.net and @3decades3kids everywhere else. Happy  Holidays! This post is part of our #NintendoReviewerKids and #HolidayGiftGuide15 series.