EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

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.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair is a action, third-person shooter and co-op game developed by SANDLOT and published by D3PUBLISHER.
Released on July 18th 2016 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 9,875 reviews of which 9,379 were positive and 496 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. šŸ˜

The game is currently priced at 16.79ā‚¬ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit
  • Processor: 3 GHz 2 Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7870 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660怀ļ¼ˆ2GB Model or higherļ¼‰
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 8 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 11 sound device
  • Additional Notes: XInput Controller

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Dec. 2024
EDF 4.1 is a brilliant game, despite its flaws! Having played tons of EDF 5 before 4.1, I'd definitely say that it's worth going back to check it out. It's certainly got some rough edges that they managed to smooth out in EDF 5, like Ranger being... just a standard soldier without any vehicles or even the ability to sprint, and Fencer not having any additional items to give him further mobility or agility, and so on. My greatest issue with the game - coming from 5 to 4.1 - is that you don't get any items or armor for the classes you aren't currently playing, and you get nothing unless you manage to actually beat the mission, which just sucks for whenever you might feel like your current class isn't very fit for the task at hand. Despite those flaws, I'd still say it's a fantastic game! Highly recommended.
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Dec. 2024
I late to play this game but this game still can compite with other new game i hope earth defendse force can have one more good game
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July 2024
No Epic login requirement? Wow, how hard was that? In all seriousness, it's cheap, it's EDF, and it's great. Still worth your time, cause no matter which EDF you'll play, you'll be having a blast shooting bugs in the face!
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June 2024
Good game, but play EDF 5 instead . The few things this one does better are: the infantry shanty song, maybe some of the ragdolling is funnier/jankier, and maybe maybe there are some mission's set pieces that are more memorable than the most boring missions in EDF 5. But that's it, EDF 5 improves in all other aspects. If you insist on playing this one, know that it's exactly what every other review is telling you: a cheesy B movie story with insane levels of destruction and explosions . Blow a building just to kill an ant, fly around wielding laser weapons, use a sword and shield against creatures 20x your size, drive gigantic mechs to punch kaijus, summon laser rains from outer space, do all of this at once in online multiplayer. It's just pure fun .
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Feb. 2024
super fun to play, best played with friends though, its an amazing eperience to load into a game and watch your friend get slapboxed across the map by a legaly distinct giant lizard monster
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
9.2
9,379
496
Online players
73
Developer
SANDLOT
Publisher
D3PUBLISHER
Release 18 Jul 2016
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