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Earth Defense Force 2017 | 
 enlarge | From: D3 Publisher
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 3049
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 21001
UPC: 879278210011
EAN: 0879278210011
ASIN: B000LV9N8S
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Face off against a wide range of attackers, from giant ants and spiders to robots and monsters standing more than 20 stories tall | | • | Get armed to the teeth 7 types of destructive weapons with 170 variations - assault rifles, rocket launchers, flamethrowers, grenades and more | | • | Over 50 all-out battles -- lead the EDF squad through city streets, underground caves, coastal zones and more to repel the alien attackers on all fronts | | • | Take control of battle tanks, armored mechs, attack helicopters and hover bikes to destroy the enemy | | • | You are not alone - Lead your crew of fearless soldiers as they charge into battle |
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Product Description
Earth Defense Force 2017 makes you Earth's last line of defense! Planet Earth is under attack from alien invaders, and the EDF is our only chance for survival. Grab your gun, join your squad and repel the attacking forces. Already a smash hit in Japan, the Earth Defense Force series comes to the US for the first time in this action-shooter exclusive to the Xbox 360. Join a friend in co-op mode and work together to battle your way through the alien swarms Fully destructible environment - Battle alien invaders but watch out -- your stray shots will bring down skyscrapers, bridges and other structures
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 inexplicably one of the best games I have ever played October 1, 2008
When I first saw it I was completely turned off---the graphics are off-putting to say the least---but was I wrong. It's been a staple of gaming with a friend for a few months now. We are almost done with the entire thing, every weapon obtained, every level completed on every difficulty. All this probably took us, oh, seventy hours. This game brings the goofy spirit of Japanese monster movies to the Xbox 360, but it hides an incredible tactical challenge under the silly graphics and "Hoh! Gojira!" storyline straight out of Ultraman.
What floors me is the tactical depth. Early on you have it rough because you have little health and no good weapons and, frankly, lack the skills to do what you need to do. After you get some good weapons you can defeat many more maps just blasting away with guided missiles and rocket launchers. However, as you raise the difficulty the better weapons don't do the job anymore and you have to really reach down to get creative tactically. What's more a well-executed, aggressive plan based on close combat will work on, say, Hard or Hardest difficulty on nearly all maps but fail miserably when you move up to Inferno, where some of the monsters (spiders!) become essentially instant death if they get a grip on you and others take a truly ludicrous amount of punishment before going down under your onslaught. So even though you're playing the same maps, the way you play them changes completely as you move through the game. As time goes on you have more weapons and health... and boy do you need them. The harder maps on Inferno are, well, they're really, really, really hard.
The destructible environments, huge explosions, rockets firing into giant UFOs in the air, Hector robots, acid squirting terror ants, leaping spiders, crazy vehicles, and so on. It's so bad it's got to be good... and it is.
 Worst 360 game I have played... yet June 27, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this game to play co-op with a friend. I played it a few times to try to get into it. I just never could.
I cannot describe how lacking it was. The graphics are mediocre. The gameplay is lame. It is one of the one or two games I have not played through to completion.
Very fun! May 18, 2008
This is an old-school shoot-em-up remade into a last-gen quality 3rd person shooter. Doesn't sound exciting, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Lots of weapons, destructible environments, giant bugs, robots, vehicles, funny radio chatter... This game isn't trying to be great, it's trying to be fun and it succeeds admirably.
WoW! Intense Addictive FPS - Escapism at $20 March 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this based upon reviews on Amazon and thought what the hell $20. Yes, it seems to be brainless shoot em up in the mode of Serious Sam somewhat which I'm a fan of but damn is this thing addictive.
It starts out sort of corny and seems damn is this easy but damn does it build level by level and took 2.5 hours to go through 5% of the game at level 13 of 52 levels and walkthru's seem mandatory to choose proper weapons. The intensity of the levels are amazing and the vibrations on the controller so extreme the controller is about to pop out of my hands.
As others have noted this doesn't pretend to be an RPG combat game but you best use some strategy as the game progresses the intensity levels are extreme. Also, the destructability of the surroundings is amazing while you battle and the scope and vastness of enemies are amazing. Oh well, if you need safe escapism for a cheap $20 this is the ticket IMO.
I finished Halo3 on Legendary but this is a totally different creature again in the mode of the Serious Sam series IMO. Fun as hell in it's own way. I've bought so many games that sucked it's wonderful when you come across sleepers you've never heard of before.
As a follow-up --- Completed at 100% levels and weapons and spent four months gaining enough stamina to do so and no second controller cheating.
Damn if I did start over from zero and then one night overwrote my perfect game accidentally and now I've spent another month and at 99.25% and the game seems impossible the second time around without building stamina extremely high and it takes forever - do your harvesting of stamina on Level 52 "Inferno" at "normal" which is easy but the quickest way to farm stamina. But damn it's addictive even the second time around. There are 53 levels btw at 5 levels of difficulty.
TIPS ---
All Levels gets you the Genocide weapon which is like carrying a hand held NUKE and often will kill you if you aren't aiming at a distance but damn it's amazing except for the fact it does nothing to the Nests or the UFO's for whatever reason. You'll find yourself using perhaps only 10% of the weapons as 90% of them are useless once you get to the hardest and Inferno level.
Easily the most fun for $20 ever --- I've been playing so long that it's amazing the details and areas to explore and different ways to win or lose. Climb up certain buildings staircases to the rooftop to snipe from a distance or go crimson level or sweeping and fight from the under the mountain road tunnel instead of the beach or hillsides - it takes awhile to defeat this way but it makes some seemingly impossible levels as doable surviving strategy.
Tunnel is excellent for reloads on Turrets from one end to the other and when fighting beachside -- Hercs cannot reach you from the beach end with their plasma cannons if you drop down into the ravine at the far end of the tunnel and fire Prominence M2 Missles - the Turrets take out the overhead ships and the missiles auto home and eventually destroy the Hercs on Inferno where you can fight from the Roadway tunnel and I'd bet most players don't even realize it's there - it keeps you from getting swarmed upon in many levels for controlled kills. On Crimson Level as red ants approach turn around and look behind you toward the hillside and you'll notice an opening in the hillside and drop and roll to it and place turrets at the opening and while the EDF's are fighting you will be setting up a perimeter plan using the tunnel and sometimes on some levesl you can recruit some EDF's to fight with you from inside the tunnel or they'll sacrifice themselves while you battle from within from one end to the other but never stand still long if you hear a spider above as sometimes they can send a web through the tunnel and they go sort of crazy swarming above you and you fight from one end to the other and it gives time for turret reloads.
Most posted walkthroughs are useless on Inferno level though - You can throw the Walkthrough rec's out the window at Hardest and Inferno Level - it becomes more of a chess match strategy and alot of luck and stamina at times and huge timing. Some levels just seem impossible at Inferno.
The vehicles are the worst part of the game except for the airbike for quick retreats and planting of turrets and getaways but they get destroyed extremely easy. Chopper is interesting but nearly impossible to effectively aim and destroy anything and they all get destroyed within seconds of any contact so you'll avoid them if you want to survive at the harder levels.
Anyone that fails to play this game through in Inferno difficulty just try and complete level 43 Spearhead - without harvesting the Top weapons you are toast since spawning never stops while your fighting the spawned and must work your way over to the spider hidden nest and defending and use of EDF Troopers is paramount in this level as they can save your butt while working your way to destroy the spider nest.
Learning to drop and roll doubles speed of motion and one of the few survival methods against spidey webs which even drain stamina after killing the spider - spiders can cheat and send webs through cavern walls at times or through a bridge underneath you or over a hillside or boulder out of firing range.
TIP on Level 51 Convergence --- Never - ever attack more than one UFO at a time when playing on hardest or inferno and let your turrets reload in between each since you'll need to survive spawned drops and Herc Bots also - perhaps 3 at a time.
These will be the superstar weapons that lead to 100% and the Genocide Weapon
ZEX Launcher (Turrets enable dual weapons but one must drop and roll to time long reloads and avoid being killed)
ZEXR-GUN (MVP Weapon for many levels - Use two sets for the "MARCH" level of Inferno)
Stingray MF Rocket Launcher
Lysander Z Sniper (Use two and rotate on level 53 Starship for quicker damage and have high stamina to get 100%) Perhaps the most difficult weapon to harvest - I got it on Convergence Inferno Level
AF99St AF100 Assault Weapons
Prominence M2 Missle Launcher
Stampede XM Grenade Launcher
The AI is amazing on Inferno and can get you really ticked --- the spiders will attach to things under you or even the kings will hide from your weapons. Spiders always go first in this game or else you will. The EDF forces are Starship Trooper Corny and Stupid though they come in handy as a sacrifice when needed. Enjoy!
The EDF Wants You!!! February 14, 2008
This game has been highly overlooked and underrated as it is fantastically fun. I bet most people see this in the stores and think it looks generic by the cover art. I'm sure the bargain price doesn't help that either but anyone who does pass it over is really missing out.
The Plot: The earth is being attacked by aliens(when are we not?)and the Earth Defense Force is mankinds only hope for survival. Simple.
The Hook: There are quite a few different types of monsters ranging from giant insects to giant robots and even more gigantic mechanical walkers and ships. There are also a ton of weapons to aquire and power up to deal maximum damage.
The Challenge: 53 levels of pure insanity that punish the player by increasing enemies and difficulty. Speaking of which, there are 4 levels of difficulty that'll truly test your skill.
The Payoff: Every level has swarms of enemies and when each is destroyed, drop armor level power ups, new weapons (the higher difficulty, the better), and health. There are also vehicles strewn about the stages ( Tank, Helicopter, Mech, and motor bike). I wish they were a little easier to control, but they work enough to work and are a nice change of pace.
The Controls: They work very well when your on foot but as I said, the vehicles could really use some fine tuning. For example, you have to hold down a face button to keep the helicopter up, and use another face button to shoot. Most every other game has solved this by using the analog sticks. The tank, mech and bike are all a little awkward to drive too. Even if they could've allowed you customize them would help some. I wish they worked like they should but oh well.
The Visuals: They don't rank up there with the best of the next gen crop but the art style is really nice. The larger monsters and ships are also impressive, so they're definitely not last gen graphics. Some of the animations are a little jerky and the landscapes can be a little bland but it's not a big deal as you'll be too busy blasting away. There are also some massive explosions that are truly a sight to behold. You can destroy pretty much everything including the city buildings and freeway overpasses, which all come crumbling down. The end boss fight is truly a sight to behold. But what truly sells this game here is the scale. Many monster games give you that level or top down camera which makes everything look small. Here, the camera is on the ground, so you really get the effect of these giants stomping down the street and coming after you. It's a really great perspective that I wish was used more in games like these.
The Audio: Again, not up there with the top of the heap but satifying. Theres an epic Godzilla score that's doom and gloom. The machine gun fire and rockets all sound good. It's actually pretty loud and chaotic when so many things are going on at the same time. Your fellow solidiers make some funny comments and cheer each other on along the way. The sound works fine.
The Recommendation: I had and continue to have alot of fun with this game. It's a real pick up and play type arcade shooter with all the challenge you could want. Earth Defense Force is a hybrid mix of Godzilla, Independence Day, Starship Troopers, War of the Worlds and Serious Sam. If you like any of those, you'll definitely like this game. And with the bargain price, how can you go wrong? Don't miss it.
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