- Publisher: D3Publisher
- Release Date: Sep 26, 2024
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Switch
- Summary:
- Developer: Yuke's
- Genre(s): Action, Shooter, Third-Person, Arcade
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Sep 25, 2024Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is super accessible and very easy to get into, but deceptively difficult to master.
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Jan 3, 2025By discarding all of their attempts at being the ‘serious, mature’ version of EDF while maintaining their passion for storytelling, Yuke’s has created something truly special in World Brothers 2. It’s a game that embraces the absurdly over-the-top nature of the franchise while offering a story that increases the player’s emotional investment — something that the main series, with its apocalyptic stakes and angry space gods, has never managed to accomplish. Does that necessarily make it the best in the series? I don’t know if I’d go that far – but I can say that it’s the most player-friendly by far, and a perfect jumping-on point for anyone curious about gaming’s most epic action.
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Nov 7, 2024Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is more of the same from the previous entry and, honestly, it never needed to be more than that. It's the sort of chaotic, messy fun that lets players just forget about everything and chant "EDF! EDF!" on their brain. Sometimes silly is good.
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Sep 26, 2024As with the original, Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is a simplified and cutesy take on the whole EDF think. While it succeeds in that goal, it loses a lot of the allure as it does so.
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Sep 26, 2024Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is a fun game, but not enough to overlook both its game design flaws and the fact that it has no real reason to exist. Its poorly written dialogue, non-existent story, and characters with endlessly repeated lines often put a spoke in the wheels of the otherwise fun gameplay based on bugs, robots, and other giant enemies to kill. The experience, however, is in no way different from that of the previous chapter and seems designed only for die-hard fans of Earth Defense Force since it adds very little beyond a few new enemies and the characters from the sixth chapter. Those who do not know or appreciate the series, then, are surrounded by video games that offer the same type of entertainment at a low level of difficulty but with much greater longevity and depth. Only the most devoted fans of the series will know how to have fun in the company of this game because it is designed almost exclusively for them.