Expanded Game

Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair

ReleasedApr 2, 2015

PlayStation 4
PC (Microsoft Windows)

About

This updated version of Earth Defense Force 2025 marks the series first current-gen appearance. It sports improved performance, new content amounting to more than 50 percent of the original, two-player local co-op, and four player online co-op. The game is also being ported to PC "It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter. As an EDF soldier you will go head to head in fierce combat against the hordes of giant alien insects and their slaughtering machines. Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal. The most overwhelmingly numerous forces of Ravagers the series has ever seen will take the EDF fighters to the depths of despair and back! Online co-op play supported."

Developer: Sandlot
Publisher: XSEED Games, PQube, D3 Publisher
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Themes: Action, Science fiction, Warfare
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Perspective: Third person
Age ratings: ESRB M, PEGI 12
Time to beat: 1000 h completionist
IGDB rating: 66 / 100 (29 ratings)
Also known as: Earth Defense Force 4.1, EDF4.1, Chikyuu Boueigun 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair