With no requirement to stick with them for the whole game, you can switch up as much as you like. Initially you can only access the Trooper and Jet Lifter PA Gear but before long you’ll get access to the other two, Heavy Striker and Prowl Rider. Here you get to use whatever you like and there aren’t weapon unlocks or major trophies for sticking with certain classes. In those games you had four classes that all had very different abilities and access to class-specific weapons. Unlike the main EDF games, these don’t really act as separate classes. In order to take them on you have two weapons and your PA Gear which is an exosuit that bestows your player with mobility improvements and varying capacities for carrying support items. You can also customise your character’s look more than ever too. There is also more of an emphasis on storytelling with your squad finally having names, and personalities, and your character having something of a backstory being the surviving hero of a previous battle with the “Aggressors” who are the alien invaders (usually known as Ravagers in previous games). Now we have Iron Rain which has arrived on these shores mere months after EDF5 promising to offer a more serious game, removed from the Japanese camp of the previous games, and updated visuals. Many players and media outlets dismiss the games as brainless shooters but those people are wrong.
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Since then the mainline titles in the series ( Earth Defense Force 2025/4.1 and EDF5) increased the chaos each time giving the player the ultimate freedom to destroy everything in their path in order to eradicate those hordes but the games also had a deeply satisfying tactical element to them when you got into the higher difficulties requiring players to develop strategies to survive and succeed.
You’d invariably be dropped into an enviroment with dozens of enormous ants, wasps, robots or whatever else and would have to run and gun your way through them and each level seemed to up the ante even more until your Xbox 360 acted like you’d just kicked it in the balls. Starting out with Global Defense Force on the PS2, the series hit its stride with Earth Defense Force 2017 on the Xbox 360 which introduced many Western gamers to the EDF’s insane mix of giant insect hordes, enormous mechanical foes and a dizzying array of weapons. It is best to consider this game in terms of its short, medium and long-term attributes but before we do, what can newbies expect? Well, the Earth Defense Force games are best described as the equivalent of the best monster b-movie you can imagine. Okay, it’s fair to say we weren’t expecting much going in but as long as Vicious Cycle aren’t near it there is always hope. At least this time they’ve not handed the reins over to an American studio and instead we have Yuke’s Co at the helm, who are a Japanese developer with a prolific softography of mainly wrestling games. But of course this comes with some significant risk because we still remember what Vicious Cycle did when they made Insect Armageddon which was a very, very terrible game. You need to live with these for a while and thankfully Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain‘s embargo has given us a chance to see what a new developer can do with the series.
Sure there will always be some rushed ones that you can but these games reveal their true natures over time. We said it last time but you don’t just review an EDF game lightly.
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Apin PS4 tagged aliens / bugs / earth defense force / edf / insects / iron rain / shooter by Richie
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