Re: Planned Weekend Gaming 2017

Chris Stevens wrote:
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Earth Defence Force 2017 (360)

Any chance of a mini-review when you've had a chance to play it?

Can do. While you're waiting, here's what I wrote about the PS2 version -

Yes, it's Japanese. Hence the name. A Japanese budget game in which you have to kill hundreds of giant insects attacking cities including London.

It's great fun.

I'd love an English language option so I could kit myself out better and, yes, the PS2 can't really keep up. And it's very grey. And the camera could be better.

But everything else is brilliant. Huge ants climbing over Big Ben! Getting in a tank on a bridge and managing to blow the bridge up, sending me into the Thames below! Giant ants climbing all over an office block? No problem, just blow it up! Flying a jetpack around a giant ants nest that's appeared in the middle of a city!

Excellent!

***

Played this for over two hours now.

It's really, really great.

Slightly unpolished, sure, but the core gameplay is superb and the graphical design is excellent. There's an excellent sense of scale and of actually helping to fend off an alien invasion.

Unlike Zombie Zone, which was great despite being fundamentally a little bit rubbish, this game is great because it's fundamentally a great game.

Still not convinced?

Tarantulas the size of four elephants! Great striding war machines! Swarms of small UFOs! Great huge motherships! GODZILLA!

It's got great enemies, yes. And you've got great weapons to kill them all. And the levels seems endless. And endlessly destructable.

There's nowhere you can't go and nothing you can't blow up, as far as I can see.

It's just superb.

Shame about the framerate, the Japanese language and the annoying "you've killed a big bad" camera, but they're hardly worth worrying about in the general scheme of things.

***

Oh. It seems to have got difficut.

Loads of striders plus huge numbers of mirrored saucers = death.

My death.

A lot.

Whichever character I use.

***

And that's where I seemed to stop playing. Note that the jetpack and London don't seem to be in the 360 version from what I've read.

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