“Earth Defense Force” has a B-movie quality to it that grew on me with time. It might look terrible from a technical and artistic qualify, but behind what it lacks in budget is a lot of heart. It’s not the most intuitive or best feeling game, but there is some charm to the goofy nature of everything in the game. Even the act of running and gunning has a tongue in cheek aspect with how the model is so stiff. As a single player experience it does get monotonous and even boring. Especially with have absurdly long the game is for the type of Arcady action it offers. This feels more like a great couch co-op with some buddies, beers and everyone talking over the game. If that’s your setting, this might fit the bill.
The Just Cause of Japan
A very weird yet extremely fun shooter that is one of my personal favorite exclusives of the Xbox 360, EDF2017 is a riot and deserves to be remembered as such
The game is fairy simple, from a narrative and gameplay view, which means that anybody can try out this game and get it right away.
The act of shooting Ants and all types of enemies is ridiculously satisfying along with having an arsenal of dozens of weapons to try out
It is a tad on the repetitive side, but the game consistently rewards the player with more weapons to try out which keeps encouraging replayability.
While there is no online co op, it’s still fun with friends thanks to split screen. For all of its faults, I still hold a tremendous amount of respect for the game as if this game never released for America back in 2006, we probably would not have seen this series get localized further in the states.
To conclude, I can heavily recommend as a fun, mindless shooter with a ton of destruction! As of the writing of this review, the game is available for 5 bucks on the Xbox store. So if you’re interested, why not give it a shot?
You get to annihilate cities and bugs, what’s not to love about this game?
A very weird yet extremely fun shooter that is one of my personal favorite exclusives of the Xbox 360, EDF2017 is a riot and deserves to be remembered as such
The game is fairy simple, from a narrative and gameplay view, which means that anybody can try out this game and get it right away.
The act of shooting Ants and all types of enemies is ridiculously satisfying along with having an arsenal of dozens of weapons to try out
It is a tad on the repetitive side, but the game consistently rewards the player with more weapons to try out which keeps encouraging replayability.
While there is no online co op, it’s still fun with friends thanks to split screen. For all of its faults, I still hold a tremendous amount of respect for the game as if this game never released for America back in 2006, we probably would not have seen this series get localized further in the states.
To conclude, I can heavily recommend as a fun, mindless shooter with a ton of destruction! As of the writing of this review, the game is available for 5 bucks on the Xbox store. So if you’re interested, why not give it a shot?
You get to annihilate cities and bugs, what’s not to love about this game?
Got me into the series and is just the perfect point to do so. If you want a fun game where you just blow up aliens and bugs for 20 thousand missions then this is for you.
This series of games is perfect. So many levels with a rewarding gameplay loop. If your a fan of Godzilla this is the closest and best you'll ever get.
Edit finished the game 6/17/2024: Yeah I still stand by what I said. This is a Godzilla fans wet dream. Honestly, it's a blast to play and I easily clocked in 10 hours into this game. With 52 missions and a plethora of weapons at ur disposal to blow up these bug/alien/kaiju hybrids up; it's endless fun. The dialogue and overall story enough is campy, yet enganging enough to immerse me into the B-movie esque world of EDF. The gameplay is what a game is suppose to be. Prioritizing gameplay. From mission 1 till 52 (the end) it's nonstop action. Which for a seasoned game like myself is always refreshing as for the longest time, atleast since 2015, too many games have been more flash than actual substance. So, if you wanna turn your brain off and blow up a city and kaiju, then this is the game for u. It's a masterpiece.
Edit finished the game 6/17/2024: Yeah I still stand by what I said. This is a Godzilla fans wet dream. Honestly, it's a blast to play and I easily clocked in 10 hours into this game. With 52 missions and a plethora of weapons at ur disposal to blow up these bug/alien/kaiju hybrids up; it's endless fun. The dialogue and overall story enough is campy, yet enganging enough to immerse me into the B-movie esque world of EDF. The gameplay is what a game is suppose to be. Prioritizing gameplay. From mission 1 till 52 (the end) it's nonstop action. Which for a seasoned game like myself is always refreshing as for the longest time, atleast since 2015, too many games have been more flash than actual substance. So, if you wanna turn your brain off and blow up a city and kaiju, then this is the game for u. It's a masterpiece.
Ara que m'he passat el joc en difícil ja decidisc aparcar-lo i no tocar les següents dificultats. La majoria de fases eren asumibles, però hi havia algunes extremadament fotudes (i això que en tot moment l'he jugat a dobles amb la meua parella, que facilitava moltes situacions).
Torne a recalcar... Un gran joc i amb ganes de jugar la resta.
Torne a recalcar... Un gran joc i amb ganes de jugar la resta.
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one of the many random games my dad got us....spent most of the time just blowing stuff up with a rocket launcher
Era una saga que tenia pendent des de fa temps, la premisa tant de pel·li de sèrie B em donava la seguretat de que m'agradaria... I tant que ho ha fet! A banda el mode cooperariu fa que millore molt i hem estat enganxats la meua parella i jo fins que ens hem passat el joc en fàcil i després en normal.
Molta acció i destrucció, poca complexitat en general (la qual cosa no és algo roín) i moltíssima diversió. Molt recomanable.
Molta acció i destrucció, poca complexitat en general (la qual cosa no és algo roín) i moltíssima diversió. Molt recomanable.
In spite of its lack of variety or what magazine review scores from back then would have you believe, running around blasting the shit out of a gazillion giant bugs with a bazooka is great, mindless arcadey fun, and it holds-up as a great purchase for either the Xbox 360 or the PS Vita.