Wing Diver: this air-based unit has a store of energy that recharges when it is not being used and can power her jet engines for flight or be used to reload any energy weapons she has. Later on though, you’ll need something that will help you survive the battle. I mainly had it set to a drone mode which meant that it made it easier for the Ranger to pick up weapons and armour. This one can offer new abilities or vehicles. This is your typical soldier type and he can carry two weapons and a special item. Ranger: something of a ‘default’ class, the Ranger was the only class back in Earth Defense Force 2017. The four classes all have their own abilities and quirks. It’s pretty funny though as they are stuck with their work uniforms for the first ten or so levels until the story advances five months. For example, the Ranger character starts work on day one as a security guard while the exoskeleton-piloting Fencer is a warehouse worker. Each with its own introduction and take on the story. EDF has always been about your damage output and, as ever, this iteration is absolutely full of weapons to play with and they cover the whole gamut from fairly traditional rifles and shotguns to super experimental tech weapons.Īs with 2025/4.1 you get to pick from four classes. The first couple of levels take place in an EDF base, the corridors and ramps making for a fairly ordinary first impression but it is during episode four, where you have to fight off multiple massive waves of ants while an NPC army of exoskeleton pilots helps you out by dishing out a ridiculous amount of firepower, that the game takes its foot off the brakes and gives you your first taste of the craziness that the game is capable of.įrom there the ante just keeps upping with the numbers of enemies getting ridiculous until you’re just swamped in them and are trying to blast your way out of the bundle. The main thing here is to put as many giant things on the screen as possible and when the enormous bullet sponge bosses show up, the game feels just about as epic as epic can get on a PS4. And as with the previous games, they don’t much care about things like frame rates. It doesn’t stop there though with EDF5 bringing a host of new enemies, both biological and mechanised, to come and ruin your day. Giant ants become red giant ants that can give and take more damage than their black counterparts while new enemies such as spiders and wasps are added to the mix, bringing an even deadlier threat. What follows is 110 levels where the alien threat gets more and more deadly. Where previously the EDF were a branch of the army, now they are private military contractors and mission one starts with you showing up there for work and being shown the ropes just as the first alien attack happens. Fans of the series will be a little confused at first as this game doesn’t follow the events of 20 (where the invading force was known as ‘The Ravagers’) and is instead from an alternate timeline with the aliens invading in 2022. The ants are a biological weapon sent down by the ‘Primers’ as super-hostile race of aliens who want to take over the Earth. One of them would be enough for a typical horror movie but the EDF games give you dozens of them all marauding around at the same time causing chaos. They also spit fire at you for good measure. These inflated insects can easily pick you up with their jaws and fling you around. A really big one at that.ĮDF5 starts the same way as the others with you being besieged by gigantic alien ants. This is a b-movie creature feature of a game where you play as a soldier who, as part of the Earth Defense Force, has to protect our world from an invading alien army. If you’re new to the series, here’s what you need to know about Earth Defense Force as a series. With that in mind, we’ll be revisiting this review later on to see how the game feels a few hundred hours from now but we’re confident enough to get our thoughts on the game’s new features out in public having completed one complete run and played several levels as other classes either offline, online and in local co-op. But none of them are qualified to really speak on the game and neither are we. So while the game has had quite a few reviews and is sitting on Metacritic with a 72% metascore which is a mix of reviews from those who get it and those who really don’t. I’m about to do it here with Earth Defense Force 5 and tell you what I’ve found out after dozens of hours of play but the fact is that these games tend to take a while to come into their own. To paraphrase Sean Bean, one does not simply review an EDF game. Decemin PS4 tagged action / aliens / carnage / earth defense force / edf / masses by Richie
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