This is what Helldivers 2 would look like in 2017
Monster attack also known as The Earth Defence Force overseas (Do not confuse with the SNES title) is the iconic yet obscure action game where you play as a marine on duty to stop the alien invasion on earth by kicking the ass of each and everyone of them.
This game is obviously inspired by Starship Troopers and a lot of other kaiju Japanese movies like Godzilla and a ton of more obscure ones, with these movies in mind it’s not really hard to figure out what the gameplay would be like.
Pretty simple, pick a mission, kill aliens, get new weapons and upgrade your armor, rinse and repeat. If you’ve played any future entry it’s literally the same thing except it looks worse and play worse but the game is primarily the same.
But ignoring all future entries, the armor system always seemed weird to me like why do I have to grind armor items to get more HP, wouldn’t it just be easier to have a classic RPG level system based on kills since that’s what you do 90% of the game! It gets really tedious to walk to every dropped item just to get a scrap of health or a duplicated weapon.
I won’t be too harsh about it since it’s part of the simple 2000 franchise and if you are not aware they were pretty much bargain bin games before they were even released, the goal was to make cheap games hence the 2000 in the name since it’s 2000 yen per game, so for that price I’d say it’s a pretty cool experimental game and it would eventually lead us to where we are now so bless you simple 2000.
So yeah it’s just a worse version of what you can play now on consoles, it looks bad but it has REALLY cool destruction physics for a ps2 game, it plays like crap with the second stick for aiming not being available by default you actually have to enable it, it’s really repetitive with very few enemy type of weapon variations, and it’s very grindy if you actually want to finish all difficulty.
I honestly wouldn’t recommend playing this entry it’s just not as good as the later entries obviously, but hell if you want to melt your ps2 with massive explosions at sub 15 fps in local COOP go for it.
Monster attack also known as The Earth Defence Force overseas (Do not confuse with the SNES title) is the iconic yet obscure action game where you play as a marine on duty to stop the alien invasion on earth by kicking the ass of each and everyone of them.
This game is obviously inspired by Starship Troopers and a lot of other kaiju Japanese movies like Godzilla and a ton of more obscure ones, with these movies in mind it’s not really hard to figure out what the gameplay would be like.
Pretty simple, pick a mission, kill aliens, get new weapons and upgrade your armor, rinse and repeat. If you’ve played any future entry it’s literally the same thing except it looks worse and play worse but the game is primarily the same.
But ignoring all future entries, the armor system always seemed weird to me like why do I have to grind armor items to get more HP, wouldn’t it just be easier to have a classic RPG level system based on kills since that’s what you do 90% of the game! It gets really tedious to walk to every dropped item just to get a scrap of health or a duplicated weapon.
I won’t be too harsh about it since it’s part of the simple 2000 franchise and if you are not aware they were pretty much bargain bin games before they were even released, the goal was to make cheap games hence the 2000 in the name since it’s 2000 yen per game, so for that price I’d say it’s a pretty cool experimental game and it would eventually lead us to where we are now so bless you simple 2000.
So yeah it’s just a worse version of what you can play now on consoles, it looks bad but it has REALLY cool destruction physics for a ps2 game, it plays like crap with the second stick for aiming not being available by default you actually have to enable it, it’s really repetitive with very few enemy type of weapon variations, and it’s very grindy if you actually want to finish all difficulty.
I honestly wouldn’t recommend playing this entry it’s just not as good as the later entries obviously, but hell if you want to melt your ps2 with massive explosions at sub 15 fps in local COOP go for it.