Damnit Nick! | Earth Defense Force 4.1 Shadow of Despair Coop | Part 7
2Stop blowing up my damn vehicles!
Huzza! Up and at em boys and gals! It's time to bring the good fight to those damn alien menaces! The Earth Defense Force needs brave men and women just like you to serve our beautiful planet from the alien invaders. So get to your local recruitment station and join to fight to send these damn bugs right back where they came from!!!
Here's some background info on the EDF series taken from the wiki page - http://theearthdefenseforce.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Defense_Force_4.1:_The_Shadow_of_New_Despair
"2013 was the first year we spotted them. We had no way of knowing what they were back then; just blips and warbles on the scanners, far out in space, slowly heading our way. Some of us hoped they were elder beings, coming to share their wisdom or take us to a better place. We all hoped that, really, but some of us had the foresight to plan for other possibilities, and that's how Earth Defense Force was born.
It took four years to corral the world's militaries into assembling and equipping a joint task force. By the time all the petty politics were out of the way, we scarcely had time to train the troops. Not knowing what to expect, we ran EDF through every sci-fi scenario we could imagine.
Then, in 2017, they arrived. And they opened fire. Not just from the sky, with their starships and battle machines, but from underneath the ground as well, with swarms and swarms of giant mutant insects. We called the aliens Ravagers, and across the globe, they lived up to that name. Only EDF, with their specialized weapons and training, stood a chance. Finally, after the bloodiest war in history, EDF blasted the last Ravager off the planet.
We thought that was the end of it. It had to be. But now, eight short years later, humanity's worst nightmare has come true: What we'd faced had only been the first wave. The Ravagers are back, with new enhanced creatures and machines. Fortunately, EDF has stayed vigilant all this time, and they've put those eight years to good use. With new weapons, new units, and even giants of our own, humanity is ready to go another round, and by the time we're done, they'll never want to come back again.
Most people hoped that the extraterrestrials would be wise and benevolent beings, and that humanity should welcome them with open arms.
Until that fateful day in June of 2017...
An armada of spaceships appeared at the edge of the solar system, surrounding the Earth and attacked all humanity. Throughout the Earth's crust, they planted nests for hideous overgrown creatures, which bred underground before burrowing up to swarm human cities from below. Every time the EDF attempted to counterattack, the Ravagers deployed a new weapon deadlier and more cunning than the last.
Humanity was clearly losing, with no hope in sight. The whole world was dying, blast by blast, and humanity was going extinct. In desperation, the EDF launched a suicidal infantry attack directly against the enemy mothership.
And on that day, humanity won its greatest victory ever. The elite unit Storm Team, against all odds, delivered a fatal strike to the mothership's only weak point. Slowly, it plummeted to the ground and exploded.
With the loss of their mothership, the Ravagers were forced to retreat. All over the world, survivors sung a hymn of victory.
Over the next year, the EDF regrouped with the remains of the world's national militaries and collaborated to root out the last of the giant creatures from underground. With their extermination, the world rejoiced again, and reconstruction of humanity's great cities began.
Though the scars of battle were deep indeed, the Ravagers' technology ironically gave humanity the tools it needed to rebuild quickly. United by the outside threat, the people of the world joined together in a time of peace.
Eight years passed. Reconstruction was nearly complete worldwide. Some believed that humanity had endured its final trial, and that the reward would be everlasting peace and prosperity.
But on June 28th, 2025, an emergency warning rang out all over the world.
Deep underground, a new plague had just been born.
Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair is a next-generation update of Earth Defense Force 2025. 4.1 comes with improvements made to make the EDF appear to be actually at war - for instance, multiple tanks appear throughout the earlier stages, including the first level, which had not appeared there in 2025. There are 89 missions in in singleplayer with 98 online, with the full online level count increased to 147 with DLC.
There are new enemies such as the Erginus, essentially an updated Saurous. The game now has 825 weapons and devices spread across the four playable classes, with highlights including the new Walking Fortress Balam."
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