These include the Ranger, which can call in bikes, tanks, or helicopters as well as wield an assortment of weapons the Wing Diver air unit that uses energy weapons and jetpacks and the Fencer, which has a power exoskeleton and can use two heavy weapons at once.
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Thankfully, the base PS4 and PS4 Pro hold up well enough with the rare drop in frame rate that did little to impede the bug shooting action.Īnd shoot you shall, with four classes of soldiers to choose from. While other developers make use of the PS4 and PS4 Pro's horsepower to give us better looking games, Earth Defense Force 5's developer Sandlot is more interested in seeing how many giant bugs it can fill on screen. The game doesn't hold back from throwing a seemingly endless number of them in your direction. Some missions require you to follow specific characters to progress but for most part, your objective is to kill every enemy on sight. In the case of the latter, it steps things up a notch with huge frogs wielding guns and an assortment of Kaiju-like monsters that wouldn't be out of place in 50s sci-fi movies like The Mysterians and Battle in Outer Space - if Starship Troopers had a competent video game adaptation, it would be based on this.įeaturing 110 missions, Earth Defense Force 5 has you killing a lot of monsters. Instead, Earth Defense Force 5 digs deep into B-movie territory with hammy, over the top voice acting that's intentionally out of place and the aforementioned enemies you're up against. So if you were expecting an engaging plot steeped in character development, this isn't for you. The entire set up of Earth Defense Force 5 is campy and doesn't take itself too seriously. When gargantuan monsters attack without warning, you find yourself taking up arms ranging from shotguns to futuristic energy weapons in an attempt to rid them from the world. The opening mission of Earth Defense Force 5 has you as a security guard for the titular Earth Defense Force. Like past entries in the franchise, Earth Defense Force 5 has you on a mission to kill as many creatures as possible. The bugs we are talking about are giant ants and spiders. Earth Defense Force 5 for the PS4 has more bugs than every game in this generation put together and that's not a bad thing.