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In Memoriam 2024

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The Year in Pictures

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In the year 2013, radio waves from deep space are picked up by scientists, proving to humans the actual existence of alien life. In the year 2015, The Earth Defense Force, a unified multinational military organization sponsored by nearly every country, is established in case the aliens prove to be hostile.

EDF ground forces are formed around three basic groups; Scout Teams, Ranger Teams, and Storm Teams, which fulfill recon, infantry, and special ops functions, respectively. They are supplied with the latest weapons and equipment, and have hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed on every continent. However, most human citizens believed that the extraterrestrials wouldn't be a threat to anybody.

Soon, in the year 2017, first contact is made when hundreds of UFOs proceed to hover over every major city across the globe, led by a massive mothership positioned over Tokyo, Japan. The aliens, dubbed Ravagers, initially make no aggressive action towards humanity. As the EDF is mobilized, giant acid spitting insects resembling ants begin to appear and attack humans. The protagonist is an unnamed Captain in Storm 1, a Japanese unit regarded as the best in the EDF, and helps exterminate the ants in Tokyo. Soon after, the UFOs start releasing more ants onto the ground, proving their hostile intentions. An air assault is attempted on the mothership, but is utterly destroyed by alien gunships. Giant mecha and spider-like insects are added to the fray, which contribute to already heavy losses. After weeks of brutal urban warfare, the surviving EDF forces abandon the cities and begin a guerrilla campaign in the rural areas.

While patrolling the Japanese countryside, Storm 1 is informed by command that an extensive alien nest is being built underground. From this nest, the Ravagers will be able to spawn an infinite number of bugs and bypass EDF defenses. Intelligence provided by Scout Teams shows that a single alien Queen is at the center of the nest, and its destruction will stop the production of the rapidly multiplying bugs. Storm 1 assaults the nest with the help of all available Ranger Teams, and successfully kills the Queen.

A few days later, Storm 1 assists a Scout Team with monitoring the mothership, which has landed on the Japanese coast and appears dormant, damaged, and defenseless. Oddly, it is observed sucking in huge amounts of air and releasing carbon dioxide, implying that the ship is more than a synthetic machine, and may be the hive intelligence controlling the Ravagers . Command orders the Teams to assault the mothership with heavy weapons, but it re-activates and wipes out the Scout Team.

Before the Ravager mothership retreats, it drops a massive four-legged mecha on the coast, which uses a powerful plasma cannon to assault EDF positions. Storm 1 destroys the mecha before it can cause too much harm, and later neutralizes several cyborg creatures of Godzilla proportions. While the Japanese contingent of the EDF continues to hold out, the rest of the world is soon overrun and enslaved. Japan stands as the last unoccupied territory.

All remaining insects and mechs on the ground make a beeline to the bombed-out ruins of Tokyo, where the mothership has stopped to repair and arm an enormous cannon, capable of destroying anything in its path. The remaining EDF forces move to block the Ravager advance so Storm 1 can destroy the mothership. In a climactic battle, Storm 1 focuses fire on the weak spots the cannon has revealed, and the mothership crashes to the ground, exploding in a huge fireball. The remaining Ravager forces become disorganized and flee.

The Earth Defense Force begins operations to free the occupied areas of Earth, and by 2018, the last of the Ravagers are wiped out. With the planet finally liberated, a collective chant of "EDF! EDF!" is heard across the globe.

This is a really good game and that&#39;s saying a lot for what it does. When I first saw gameplay of this game I genuinely thought it might be a bad game not because of it having a lot of weapons or mission but instead because of how many enemies spawns in permission. But after beating the campaign I can say that that game is really good. Don&#39;t get me wrong there are a few problems like no matter what I do somehow every time I hit any robot it somehow misses even when I hit the torso or the enemies bodies come at you and cause you to die if you use a rpg but besides those it&#39;s really fun. Each mission you have one sometimes two objectives and all you have to do is kill the enemies. Even if there&#39;s 300 of them on your screen it&#39;s still a doable task because of the weapons you can get. Even the story who semi on the side lines is really good. I&#39;m going to 100% this game soon and when I do I&#39;m going to move to the next game into the series because that&#39;s how much fun I had with this. If you have a console that can play this game or one that says it&#39;s backwards compatible then go and play it. You won&#39;t regret it at all.

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Earth Defense Force 2017

If you and your friend are looking for a good couch co-op you should definitely consider this game! The story and the voice acting to this game is awful, but the gameplay is simple and intense. All you do is blow up buildings and bugs with awesome weapons. There are five different difficulties: easy, normal, hard, hardest, and inferno. If you want to beat it on inferno you&#39;ll most certainly need to play through on hard or hardest to have the proper gear to take on inferno missions. This game has A LOT of gameplay to it. I&#39;m pretty sure there is around 35-40 missions. It took my friend and I several weekends to play through it on hardest. Then we no lifed a weekend to beat it on inferno. This game will bring many laughs and good times. Check it out!

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Earth Defense Force 2017

A really good game

Good fun!

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