Mon, Jul 18, 2011 | 18:00 BST
EDF: Insect Armageddon out this week – HD look with VO
Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon hits Europe on Friday for 360 and PS3. It costs less than £25. Watch the video after the break. You may decide you wish to buy it after doing so.
The movie’s an HD edit of the first hour-ish of single-play, but there’s three-player online co-op, a six-player Survival mode and two-way split-screen as well.
It’s a sci-fi TPS in which you shoot ants. And spiders. And robots. You level up soldiers and get new guns. You can shoot trees, too.
Insect Armaggedon is developed by Vicious Cycle as a sequel to Sandlot’s EDF 2017, which released in 2006 in Japan and 2007 in the west. The original Earth Defence Force was a 2005 PS2 game, again by Sandlot, that made it west in 2007.
Take a look. It’s fun.
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Posted in: Action, Namco Bandai, PS3, Shooter, Videos, Xbox 360
Tags: Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon, vicious cycle
9 comments
#1
LOLshock94
18/07/11, 5:55 pm
you do know that sam raimi is producing a movie for this
#2
Patrick Garratt
18/07/11, 5:57 pm
I didn’t know that.
The game really is alright, from what I saw. No idea how long it is, though.
#3
LOLshock94
18/07/11, 6:01 pm
http://www.slashfilm.com/sam-raimi-developing-alien-invasion-movie-edf-aka-earth-defense-force/
EDF 2017 was about 12 hours really is fun on splitscreen
#4
Patrick Garratt
18/07/11, 6:03 pm
Blimey. Go Sam.
I’m definitely going to play it online. It’s a laugh.
#5
Gekidami
18/07/11, 6:06 pm
That movie doesnt seem to be related to these games.
#6
manamana
18/07/11, 10:30 pm
Looks like afterwork-fun to me. Missed the first one but defo gonna get this. Have a drink, sit down on the couch and nonstop-blast the trouble away!
#7
minxamo
18/07/11, 10:41 pm
Huge scale, mindless fun shooting giant insects, and £25 new…
Why aren’t more games like this??
#8
Gigabomber
18/07/11, 11:11 pm
The devs are heavily invested in the community. They have been active over a month on gamefaqs/gamespot and are posting on various topics on a daily basis in a fairly unfiltered manner on both the xbox and ps3 boards; it’s pretty nice.
#9
frostquake
19/07/11, 8:10 am
Great Mindless B Movie Game! I have been playing it for a couple of weeks, since it came out Early here in the US. There are 15 missions, but you can’t unlock everything in one play through. Classic Split Screen Co-op that the Wife can grab a controller and help unlock weapons and abilities. AI controlled Sidekicks on SP are freaking Hilarious the way they tuck and roll and the crazy things they say like, ” Hey I once saw this in a game I played.” LOL