Earth Defense Force 2017

"Video game experience no gamer should miss!"

So I've come to the conclusion that I really like this game a lot.

Most of the time the most important thing to a player is graphics or storyline. This game totally fails in both of these respects but makes up for it in PURE game play.

You have one hundred fifty different weapons to find, starting with a rocket launcher with infinite ammo and machine gun. Weapon types include rockets, machine guns, missiles, nuclear bombs (with infinite ammo!), homing missiles, homing machine gun rockets, grenades, launchers, grenade launchers, turrets, tanks, robot mechs, helicopters, speed hover bikes, timed detonators, rifles, sniper rifles, sniper nuclear rockets, laser guns, laser bomb guns, and of course swarming homing nuclear missiles that track enemies from miles away.

Every part of every environment could be totally dusted. You could destroy people and buildings with little effort and NO PENALTY. Not to mention the obvious alien invaders.

They consist of giant spaceships that are completely destroyable, indescribably large four legged giant walking, ant-shooting robots with enormous laser cannons, dragons with fire breath, laser-machine gun hundred foot biped robots, giant spiders, ants and flies. There are actually spaceships that fire off little spaceships up in the hundreds at a time that swarm around you and shoot little lasers.

Complete chaos during all moments of the game.

Which brings me to my review. The game has terrible voice acting. However you will find yourself quoting the game indiscriminately. Catchy phrases and cheesy one-liners will have you hooked in no time. Voices and speeches can be incredibly annoying and monotonous as you play, yet despite this small drawback, easily ignored.

The graphic quality of the game stays decent while not being over-the-top next generation yet manages to impress with extreme draw-distances and even more extreme individual object rendering. You will see buildings crush themselves to dust, street signs, poles, cars, enemies and flames go flying as a stray rocket scores a miss virtually every shot you take.

The third person aspect makes you feel as if you are you are playing with an action figure from the eighties. Screaming "cheese ball!" as it were.

But the entire games stays true to this formula of cheesiness and tackiness. The game is a shooter, no impressive story or background. You just have to kill giant alien ants and space robots with rockets and bombs and you have to survive.

The voice acting I said totally sucks. The music stinks too though. Luckily the Xbox 360 has a thing built-in for custom soundtracks galore. Benny Goodman made this game the most thrilling experience ever. So even though you hear two guys talking from fifty feet away shouting, "WHOA, that monster is totally big!" and another soldier replies, "Are you scared?" every ten minutes can drag the game out a little bit during the ever rare slow moments.

You are usually just blowing up a handful of robot alien monsters with your small cache of incredibly destructive weaponry with most being easily deployed.

What instinct does a human being follow the most but survival?

Rockets and bombs :10
Giant alien space bugs and robots : 10
Music:4
Game play:10
Replay: 10
Sound effects: 4
Graphics: 7
Destroying countless enemies and spaceships with rockets: 10
Destroying a city block with a single blast: 10
Controls:10

Overall:8

Yes, you'll totally love this game. If you have a 360 you should go out and stop reading this just to RUN OUT and buy yourself a copy. Especially because you could blow up aliens with friends, blow up friends with rockets, but most of all blow things up in general.

If you like lots of explosions and lots of destruction and mindless entertainment; Earth Defense Force should have you shouting "E-D-F!!" in an immediate fashion.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 03/28/07