PlayStation Blog: The Earth Defense Force is back, and I’m here to tell you what to expect when it lands on PS Vita this winter! Earth Defense Force 2017 (“EDF3” in Japan) launched in 2007 as a third-person shooter developed by Sandlot and published by D3Publisher.
Because blowing up UFO's never gets old.
Satisfying visual feedback, so many games have lost this principle and it's sad. Almost everything you do has an interesting and Satisfying reaction, making everything physics based is the key to that, watching everything fly, crumble, and react to your weapons, and slowly increasing you weapons capabilities to do so to an absurd degree, just keeps ramping up the satisfaction of how good it feels to play this game.
Games are great, they may not be the greatest visually, but man do they really push the hardware they’re on cpu wise
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "Thanks to the timing of the Vita’s release and its relative power compared to the home consoles at the time (PS3 & Xbox 360), it saw the benefit of a number of these late ports which have remained the ‘definitive’ versions to this day. It’s these games that I’m aiming to look at in this article – titles that are best on Vita by virtue of extra bells and whistles, tweaked controls, and content, or in some cases just a general feeling that Sony’s portable hardware is the most enjoyable way to play."
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "Thanks to some solid late-in-life Japanese support, and a sea of backwards-compatible games, the Vita’s library of third-person shooters is a lot better than it first appears, covering a variety of sub-genres from horror to stealth to tactical, all the while providing games that are a tonne of fun to play."
Missed so many games.
Also backwards compatibility differs from region to region.
Literally some stores like the NZ/Aus store will allow syphon Filter 1 and 3 but not 2 and the USA store is different again
I haven't done it in a while so unsure if it has changed, but you used to be able to download any PS1 or PSP game to a PS3 and then transfer it to the Vita and it just worked - regardless of whether it showed as something you could buy in store for, or download directly to, the Vita. It opened up a huge library of back-compat titles that way.
I'm so glad they're making this!!! I love the series and I love getting stuff for the Vita!
Will there be a Europe/uk launch for this? Looks fun and I want to get it.
I hope they allow all classes in survival and more guns.
This series makes for good short sessions. Good fit for portable.
This game is NOTHING like the console versions. I bought the Jap version and I have to say that I had more fun playing Terminator Salvation.
Absolutely the worst game I have played in a while, I had high hopes that it would play like the ps3 version that I loved so much...sadly it plays like a budget title that isn't even bargain bin budget.
The graphics are terrible (don't let screen shots fool u), animations are stiff, and destruction is bland. It doesn't even look like PSP graphics, more like slightly enhanced DS.
The graphics aren't important though it's the gameplay, and that is even worse! It felt like I was using a leaf blower...after you kill the ants or w.e is on screen, the bodies then remain on screen and u can push them using your gun around...it looks like a glitchy mess.
STAY AWAY, there are MUCH Better titles coming out for the vita! MUCH BETTER! SAVE YOUR MONEY!