Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon - All-In-One.

I've been playing Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon for the Xbox 360. The game is the fourth title in the series and the second game released in North America. It's my first entry into the series. This entry in the series was developed for the first time in America by Vicious Cycle Software and published by D3 Publishers. The first three titles were developed in Japan by Sandlot. The original games were developed under the Simple 2000 series, which makes them $20 budget releases. The third was released on the Xbox 360 as Earth Defense Force 2017, again as a budget priced title. Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon retains the budget price aesthetic but essentially provides a full-fledged game including online co-op for three players through the campaign and six-player online co-op through survival mode. Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon is a third-person shooter versus thousands upon thousands of bugs. Through the game's fifteen levels you'll constantly find yourself swarmed by bugs and it's even more intense with three players in co-op. The game offers four distinct classes that truly play different from each other. The game also offers over three-hundred weapons that truly offer a rather impressive variety of unique graphic displays. Far more impressive than Borderlands, that's for sure. Graphically the game is solid. While clearly budget based the graphics are clean and the bugs animate well. The game's sound effects work well. The bugs pop with a satisfying sound and the weapon sound effects also prove satisfying. What's probably most surprising is the story and it's decidedly humorous take on things. The game is truly funny. The game is aware of itself as a video game and constantly mocks itself. The true ending, which can only be seen on the hardest difficulty level, especially mocks video game endings. The game isn't flawless though. I would say that the grind is a bit on the extreme side. Leveling your characters and killing set numbers of bugs for achievements takes way too long. Other than that though, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon proves to be great solid fun and I'm giving the game an 8. We're essentially taking a break from the game and expect to return to it to finish said grind and earn those achievements. It might take a a year of playing on and off. Yeah, the grind is like that...