Earth Defense Force 2025

 PlayStation 3
Metascore
69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 28
  3. Negative: 1 out of 28
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  1. games(TM)
    Apr 9, 2014
    70
    EDF has never been quite as spectacular, nor as charmingly wonky, as this. [Issue#146, p.121]
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  2. Vandal
    Mar 3, 2014
    70
    This game is aimed at a very specific audience, but if you're ok with loads of fun and just a correct technical side, then it does deserve a try.
  3. 3DJuegos
    Feb 20, 2014
    70
    A fun and simple shooter experience. The multiplayer factor is the key in this new sequel of the well-known EDF saga.
  5. Games Master UK
    Apr 7, 2014
    65
    However bad it gets it's never an enraging experience. [May 2014, p.78]
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  6. IGN
    Feb 18, 2014
    65
    I can forgive (and even enjoy) the quirky physics and awkward voice acting EDF is known for, but the terrible frame rate turns this fast-paced action game into a slow-motion chug-fest when it matters most.
  7. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Feb 28, 2014
    60
    If you’re willing to brave the wonky controls, bland looks, repetitive sounds and wholly uninspiring story, there’s a content-rich base-level appeal to Earth Defense Force 2025 that will draw you in.
  8. Multiplayer.it
    Feb 24, 2014
    60
    Sandlot tried to make the best episode ever for Earth Defense Force, delivering a very long campaign that can be played both in single or multiplayer. What a pity the graphics can't get the job done.
  9. Push Square
    Feb 21, 2014
    60
    Like a cheesy 80s pop record, Earth Defense Force 2025 is so bad that it’s almost quite good.
  10. USgamer
    Feb 18, 2014
    60
    Earth Defense Force 2025 isn't great, but it is good. The game dispenses with anything that would get in the way of pure shooting, bringing players forcibly back to old arcade shooters like Robotron and Smash TV. If you have a friend to play with and you both jive with the B-movie vibe of EDF 2025, there's some fun to be had here.
  11. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Feb 18, 2014
    60
    The shooting just happens to be glorious so you end up shooting until you realise you haven’t done anything that resembles ‘skill’ in around 50 levels, and you’ll go loopy. EDF 2025 is proof it’s possible to have too much of a good thing.
  12. IGN Italia
    Feb 18, 2014
    59
    Earth Defense Force 2025 is a mediocre game, especially from a technical point of view, but it can offer some moderate fun if you're into destroying cities and exterminating giant insects.
  13. CD-Action
    Jun 28, 2014
    50
    This half-baked, technically clumsy game failed to squeeze any emotion out of me apart from the moments when it got on my nerves. [05/2014, p.70]
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  14. The Digital Fix
    Mar 14, 2014
    50
    EDF has a fiercely loyal following, and fans are likely to be happy embracing this latest title, bugs and all. For everyone else though, EDF 2025 is the gaming equivalent of Sharktopus: a bargain basement, low-budget cheesefest of the highest order, mildly amusing for a short time, filled with awful lines, and completely forgettable.
  15. Metro GameCentral
    Feb 18, 2014
    50
    No longer the Deadly Premonition of action games, just an outdated, half-broken, shooter that offers only glimpses of what it could’ve been.
  16. Eurogamer
    Feb 18, 2014
    50
    EDF 2025 is a shorthand for every game. Just shooting GIANT INSECTS, whilst someone shouts SHOOT THE GIANT INSECTS from your TV.

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#38 Best PS3 Game of 2014
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#30 Most Discussed PS3 Game of 2014
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#26 Most Shared PS3 Game of 2014

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User Score
7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 60 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 60
  3. Negative: 9 out of 60
  1. Folstar
    Feb 19, 2014
    9
    Any game reviewer who does not see the beauty of this game is bad at their job and probably dead inside. EDF 2025 is everything good about EDFAny game reviewer who does not see the beauty of this game is bad at their job and probably dead inside. EDF 2025 is everything good about EDF 2017 updated with the few good elements of Insect Armageddon. If you do not like mayhem and endless hours of a game that is actually fun to play with real life human friends this is not the game for you, but you might have a future writing knee jerk bad reviews of a game you probably played for less than an hour.… Full Review »
  2. firehead
    Apr 27, 2014
    10
    I am appalled to see this game get such low scores, critics are such idiots. any ways, this game is a perfect video game, solid gameplay,I am appalled to see this game get such low scores, critics are such idiots. any ways, this game is a perfect video game, solid gameplay, action, controls, and context, at time of this review I beaten every level on normal (theres 85) and am going to go do them all again as a different class. there is just SO MUCH replayability its insane. anyone who doesn't like this game suffers from a damaged brain which can not register fun.… Full Review »
  3. chero666
    Mar 3, 2014
    9
    Earth Defense Force 2025 is like a weird mixture of various Monster Attack movies such as Godzilla Final Wars (complete with human combatantsEarth Defense Force 2025 is like a weird mixture of various Monster Attack movies such as Godzilla Final Wars (complete with human combatants with sick skills and weaponry) and arcade action-y titles like Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Dynasty Warriors where your clear goal is achieve your objective and murder all the various hoards of enemies that will come to stop you from doing the "life thing" people seem to enjoy these days.
    You can control one of the 4 available classes (Ranger, Wing Diver, Air Raider, and Fencer), each one with their own perks and load-outs, and you proceed through cities, forests, underground tunnels, beaches, etc. and kill everything that doesn't look like you and are normally 5-20X your own size. The enemies in the game become more and more ridiculous the further you get into it, and since your starting enemies are giant ants, that's saying something (slight spoiler: at some points you are fighting against enemies almost big and numerous enough to completely block out the skybox).
    There is a 2-Player Local Coop and 4-Player Online CooP with various weapons designed for use with other player such as health and stat boosts. (I sadly haven't gotten around to testing this, so no comment on how well it works)
    The amount of weapon pick-up in the game is massive. There's no sharing weapons between classes as well, so each player would have a completely different selection to choose from to handle the various situations that EDF2025 will put you in to, from Snipers Rifles, Shot Guns, Turrets, Mechas, Helicopters, Giant Shockwave Hammers, Gatling Guns, Even Bigger Shockwave Hammers, a large red 1-use missile on a small shoulder-rest of some sort, Plasma Rifles, Rocket Launchers, more Rocket Launchers, Grenade Launchers, a Super Soaker filled with sweet sweet healing goo, etc... the variety of the weapons is so large that my mouth was floor after many MANY hours of play, I had just received an Achievement for just getting "10% of Weapons."
    If I had to criticize anything in this game, it's the graphical fidelity and the frame-drops. The limited visuals is a bit of a bummer, but not game-breaking for me... the frame-rate droppage on the other hand will annoy a lot of people. Sometimes the chaos is so thick that your game will tank for up to 20-30 seconds before enemy bodies and destroyed buildings starts disappearing from the screen allowing you to continue having fun.

    Even despite these problems, EDF2025 is currently one of my favorite games to be released (in the US) this year.    … Full Review »
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