Meet all of the known characters, their playstyles, strengths, weaknesses, passive abilities, unique skills, and Ultimate Arts.

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Despite the Minecraft-style makeover, Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 still plays faithfully like EDF games of yesteryear. Yep, you’ll be taking down hundreds of giant ants, hopping alien ...

Earth Defense Force 6 makes a horrendous first impression. Opening with a stunted tutorial ripped out of the 2006 PS3 bargain bin, Sandlot's sixth mainline entry in its generations-spanning arcade ...

The Air Raider is an interesting class in the Earth Defense Force games, for a variety of ... and tend to keep enemies constantly locked down due to their stagger animations.

To me, the Earth Defense Force series exists to deliver the perfect comfort food games. Each new installment is similar enough to the one before so that you can easily drop back in, but there’s ...

Earth Defense Force is a series known for its campy, B-movie vibe. It’s known for being far from the greatest in its genre, but a perfect game for when you want to turn your brain off and blast ...

The Earth Defense Force 6 Steam launch has been a mixed success. Finally arriving on PC, the bold, bright, and bananas co-op game has been met, quite rightly, with high player numbers and some ...

Earth Defense Force feels like a relic of a bygone era. An era of arcade shooters with the sole purpose of throwing shapes, colours and sounds in your general direction. Ever since 2003’s ...

Earth Defense Force 6 is big, dumb co-op fun and a masterclass ... have you and a ragtag bunch of wasteland survivors hunting down alien remnants, before the invaders play their trump card ...

Earth Defense Force 6 will go live at 8am BST in the UK on July 25, and midnight PDT / 3am EDT in the US. Developer SANDLOT has confirmed the Earth Defense Force 6 release time, letting us know ...