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It's no Gears of War, but it's mad fun
posted by Twizlex (DAUPHIN, PA) Mar 21, 2007
Member since Jul 2006
89 out of 99 gamers (90%) found this review helpful
Essentially, this is a budget title for the 360. Brand new this game will only run you $39.99, and it shows. Graphically, it's mediocre, but who cares? Since the dawn of videogames, the most important element of a game is how fun it is, and this game is fun. I don't even know why it's fun, but I enjoy it.
EDF is a third-person shooter along the lines of GRAW or Gears but without the big budget. You can commandeer vehicles and blow up pretty much everything in the environment (trees, buildings, etc.). The game spans 50+ missions which are fairly similar. You can replay the missions on 5 progressively harder difficulty levels to unlock more life, guns, and so forth. Doing so will take a good number of hours, as will trying to earn all the Achievements (clearing all stages on each difficulty level and unlocking all of the guns).
You can tackle the missions in co-op mode also, but for whatever reason there's no online play. Multiplayer is limited to offline splitscreen, unlike most other 360 games nowadays that offer online but no splitscreen. When are developers going to get it in their heads that we want BOTH? Anyways, considering this is a budget title, maybe they just didn't have the cash to develop an online mode. Who knows.
As I said before, the graphics aren't all that good. There are, however, some little details here and there that are surprising considering the overall look of the game. The sound is horrible, though. Most of the guns sound too similar and your AI teammates repeat too often. You can even hear them blabbering after they've all been killed! Craziness...
Overall, this game is like something between a regular retail 360 game and an Xbox Live Arcade game. It's bigger and prettier than an Arcade game (and has 1000 points), but uglier and cheaper than a regular game. Honestly, I think EDF fills a missing gap in Microsoft's library, and I welcome it.
EDF is a third-person shooter along the lines of GRAW or Gears but without the big budget. You can commandeer vehicles and blow up pretty much everything in the environment (trees, buildings, etc.). The game spans 50+ missions which are fairly similar. You can replay the missions on 5 progressively harder difficulty levels to unlock more life, guns, and so forth. Doing so will take a good number of hours, as will trying to earn all the Achievements (clearing all stages on each difficulty level and unlocking all of the guns).
You can tackle the missions in co-op mode also, but for whatever reason there's no online play. Multiplayer is limited to offline splitscreen, unlike most other 360 games nowadays that offer online but no splitscreen. When are developers going to get it in their heads that we want BOTH? Anyways, considering this is a budget title, maybe they just didn't have the cash to develop an online mode. Who knows.
As I said before, the graphics aren't all that good. There are, however, some little details here and there that are surprising considering the overall look of the game. The sound is horrible, though. Most of the guns sound too similar and your AI teammates repeat too often. You can even hear them blabbering after they've all been killed! Craziness...
Overall, this game is like something between a regular retail 360 game and an Xbox Live Arcade game. It's bigger and prettier than an Arcade game (and has 1000 points), but uglier and cheaper than a regular game. Honestly, I think EDF fills a missing gap in Microsoft's library, and I welcome it.