PixlBit

   It's a day of disaster. A day of giant foes not of this world. Citizens run screaming from the streets of the cities. The call goes out to the forces ready to defend. Get your armor on, pick up a rocket launcher, and let's get out there and save Earth.

                               

     See that Ranger guy on the far left of the upper part of the box art? See that weapon he's carrying? That's called the Air Tortoise and that's what my friend Mark was using as we played EDF 2025 all day yesterday. I was the Wing Diver female just to the right of the black Fencer character in the middle except I was a shade of yellow (you can change your color). I started out as the Ranger too at first, but when I saw you could fly around as the WIng Diver, I went for that. The jet pack is really helpful. She doesn't get the big weapons like the Air Tortoise, but she is very maneuverable. I use her jet pack to hunt down weapon drops and occasionally - I mean, often - rescue my friend from getting knocked out.

    But I was knocked out quite a bit myself, and often I had to wait for my friend to decide to rescue me. So while I lay there, I messed with the camera and tried some fashion shots. I mean, why not, right?

                

                                             I call this the Helplessly Hoping look.

    The Wing Diver is a great character because you can soar high above and see the waves of insects crawling over the buildings and landscape. I could also see my friend shoot the Air Tortoise missile, and watch it slowly approach a giant robot, explode on it with a huge firey blast, and see the robot, smoking but still functional, walk out of the flame and shoot off a huge plume of plasma. I mean, this game has the monster movie look down: buildings crumble to the ground, waves of giant ants swarm uncontrollably, huge robots bigger than skyscrapers march down the streets, gargantuan flying saucers fly overhead, and you, small you, run around blasting away until they are all just piles of rubble. Ok, that part isn't monster movie material. Usually another monster fights the troublesome one and the tanks and people get squashed, but hey, whatever.

    How much fun can you have from this game? A lot. I hardly moved all day as we played mission after mission, picking up new weapons and trying them out, destroying whole buildings, - I mean, my friend destroying whole buildings while I was on the roof sniping. KInda hard to snipe when the floor drops out from under you and you drop ten to twenty stories to the ground. Luckily the Wing Diver doesn't take damage from falls - blasting UFOs from the sky, running like mad from a swarm of red ants but finally getting scooped up by one and shaken like a rag doll, and flying around looking for health so I can make a rescue (you rescue by giving some of your health to the downed person. If you're below 20%, you've got nothing to give, and you can't revive a player). 

    Story? Huh? Music? I think I heard some Bernard Hermann like stuff once. None of that really matters, just big monsters and big guns and a whole lot of shooting. Yeeehaaa!