The Chikyuu Boueigun 2 is a Japanese PlayStation 2 title developed by Sandlot and released in 2005. Earth Defense Force 2 is a rough English translation, and is often used in the game itself. The game will be referred to as EDF 2 throughout this article.
EDF2 is a third-person shooter featuring gigantic, sprawling maps and floods of large enemies. Two characters are selectable; a heavy-weapons foot soldier and a jetpack-equipped girl using lighter weapondry. There are 140 weapons between the two, and 71 missions to play through.
=Game Flow=
The general flow of the game is as follows:
- Select a character and weapon set
- Select a mission and difficulty
- Defeat all enemies in a stage
- Obtain permanent character changes from items dropped by enemies throughout the missions.
=Items=
- Weapons are unlocked throughout the game by picking up Weapon objects dropped by enemies. Every Weapon object picked up will add a random weapon of your character's to your selection, even if you already have it.
- Armor pickups increase your character's overall defense. Every Armor pickup increases your character's armor statistic by one point, increasing the amount of damage that can be taken.
- Health pickups immediately refill some of your character's health. They are available in a single-health item and boxes, which refill even more.
=Enemies=
Note: Some of the enemy descriptions may be considered spoilers.Ants
Ants come in four varieties:
- Black Ants are the most common variety. They appear in the first mission, can take little damage, and can deal little damage through close-range biting. They can also attack at longer ranges with projectile acid. Can climb walls.
- Flying Black Ants are identical to Black Ants, but can fly. When attacked, they can lose their wings and travel on-foot.
- Red Ants appear later. They are similar to Black Ants, but faster, tougher, and significantly more damaging.
- Queen Ants are seen in a few missions. Queen Ants are much larger, and have a dangerous, wide, long-range continuous acid attack, and can take large
amounts of damage.Spiders
Spiders come in two varieties:
- Spiders appear early in the game, yet can be the most dangerous in large hordes. Spiders can take more damage than ants, and fire web that can slow
down the player's movement. Can climb walls and jump.
- Queen Spiders appear at a few points in the game. Similar to spiders, but much larger and with a more powerful web attack.
UFOs
UFOs
UFOs appear early in the game, but have several major variations throughout the campaign:
- Green UFOs are the first UFO encountered by the player. These UFOs move from place to place a set intervals, and fire small, red, low-power lasers in rapid succession.
- Red UFOs are hardier versions of Green UFOs with identical movement and attacking behavior.
- Metallic UFOs are a mirror-coated UFO with no projectile attack. These UFOs are only vulnerable in the central, red location on their body. Firing a weapon at any other part of this UFO results in the players projectile being reflected back at them, making them very dangerous against some weapons (most notably beam or shotgun/spread style weapons). The Metallic UFOs behavior is to locate and follow the player, and then rotate towards and turn their weak point inward, while spreading their reflective surface outward to maximize the chance of stray shots eliminating the player character.
- Laser UFOs are oblong UFOs more resembling the tops of Metallic Walkers. They are purple/reddish in color, and launch a rapid-fire beam of interconnected laser blasts.
- Bomber UFOs are variations of the Laser UFOs, but Black/Bluish in color. They launch individual energy bombs and carpet bomb large areas in groups.
- Small Motherships are large sized UFOs which do not attack the player directly, but drop smaller enemies such as Ants, Spiders and Red and Green UFOs. The Small Motherships will move throughout an area is a circular pattern dropping enemies until destroyed. They are usually protected by a close proximity of smaller UFOs.
- Motherships are massive UFOs which primarily drop Green and Red UFOs. The Mothership has the following attacks:
- An Atomic Blast, which levels 2-3 city blocks using large, orange, slow-moving projectiles.
- A laser attack, which rapidly fires a large number of pink/red laser beams in rapid succession from a ring around the base of the Mothership.[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Chikyuu Boueigun 2 ]
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