EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS 2 (Incl. ALL DLC)

A shattered, voxel-built Earth turns the usual alien-invasion panic into a colorful, wonderfully excessive rescue operation. EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS 2 trades the main series’ straight-faced B-movie destruction for chunky toy-box visuals, but it keeps the essential EDF appeal intact: overwhelming odds, absurdly huge bugs, and weapons loud enough to make every victory feel earned. After the underground Gaiarch breaks the planet into floating pieces, you return as the Commander, assembling scattered soldiers to push back insects, machines, UFOs, monsters, and invading forces drawn from across EDF history. The tone is playful and accessible, yet the battlefield chaos remains as gleefully intense as fans expect.

Missions revolve around dropping into compact combat zones, rescuing stranded allies, eliminating swarms, and protecting what remains of the fractured planet. Each recruited fighter brings a distinct class, mobility style, and arsenal, while a four-person squad lets you combine aerial movement, heavy firepower, close-range attacks, healing, or whatever unusual strategy suits the mission. More than 100 characters and over 600 weapons and accessories give the progression system real range, encouraging you to test squad combinations rather than relying on one favorite soldier. Five difficulty settings accommodate casual players and hardened EDF regulars alike, while four-player online co-op turns the escalating enemy numbers into a properly chaotic group event.

Its biggest strength is how confidently it celebrates the entire franchise, mixing familiar troops and enemies from the mainline releases and spin-offs with newcomers associated with EDF 6. The voxel art makes gigantic creatures and collapsing city fights easier to read than in the more visually cluttered main games, without sacrificing the spectacle of an oversized ant getting blasted by missiles. With more than 100 missions, a huge gear pool, and DLC expanding the available content, it offers substantial replay value for players who enjoy collecting builds and chasing tougher clears. Anyone who likes EDF’s simple “shoot everything enormous” fantasy, or wants a lighter, squad-building alternative to the main series, finds plenty to enjoy here.