History VideoGame / EarthDefenseForce

* SelfPlagiarism: Two years after the success of the original game, series publisher D3 released ''Simple 2000 Vol. 78: The Great Space War''(aka: ''Space War Attack''), a flight action game that, like ''EDF'', has the player fighting a variety of giant bubs, Kaijus and alien aircrafts and with a similar goofy and low-budget vibes. It is unclear if ''Space War Attack'' is officialy meant to be a ''EDF'' spin-off (The game has a different developer[[note]]It was made by Bit Town, the developers of the ''VideoGame/{{Sidewinder}}'' series, from which the game recycles a lot of assets[[/note]] and, beside a brief mention of the Earth Defense Force in the intro, no ''EDF'' branding or any recognizable characters or elements from the series) but the intent to reuse the formula is obvious enough.

** ''Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair'' (2015/2016, [=PS4=], PC) -- An Updated Re-release of ''2025'', released in Japan for the [=PlayStation=] 4 in April 2015, following in December for North America and the next February for Europe. A PC port through Steam came worldwide in July 2016.

''Earth Defense Force'' is a series of budget title ThirdPersonShooter games developed by Sandlot and published by [[Creator/D3Publisher D3 Publisher]].

** Unselected teammates will never receive any kind of damage.

* LighterAndSofter: ''World Brothers'' is BY FAR the lightest ''EDF'' game to-date; besides the cutesy voxel graphics, characters are almost-always smiling in their portraits, dialogue is cheerful, the music is upbeat, and the usual grim tone of EDF is almost completely absent, in favor of pure heroic energy and ThePowerOfFriendship. And all this DESPITE it starting with the ''[[DownerBeginning freaking Earth being destroyed!]]''

** In ''EDF 2017'', we have Vallak, which are much like the Saurus from the previous games but they also have cyborg version of the Vallak armed with plasma cannons on their shoulders.

* TheSwarm: In some of the games, not only do you fight off swarms of giant ants and spiders, you also fight off swarms of [[BeeAfraid hornets and bees]]!

* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce5'' (2018): Released in Japan, the US, and Europe on the [=PS4=]. It is another ContinuityReboot of the series. Once again players are taken back to the first invasion of the alien threat. This iteration of the series updated its graphics, added more blood and gore, new weapons and equipment, a few new enemies, some enemies from previous titles and introduced new character features to the four classes introduced in earlier games.

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: The Pale Wings in the second and third games.

* EnergyWeapon: Every weapon used by the Pale Wing/Wing Diver and featured in some weapons for the other classes.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Plenty, both used by the aliens themselves as well as the Wing Divers. 4.1 starts Wing Divers off with a short range BeamSpam weapon that wouldn't look out of place at a rave club.

* EveryBulletIsATracer: Sort of necessary from a gameplay standpoint. With so much going on and so few of your weapons being HitScan, you really need to see where each round goes and adjust on the fly.

** ''Earth Defense Forces 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair'' (2015/2016, [=PS4=], PC) -- An Updated Re-release of ''2025'', released in Japan for the [=PlayStation=] 4 in April 2015, following in December for North America and the next February for Europe. A PC port through Steam came worldwide in July 2016.

* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce5'' (2018): Released in Japan, the US, and Europe on the [=PS4=]. It is another reboot of the series. Once again players are taken back to the first invasion of the alien threat. This iteration of the series updated its graphics, added more blood and gore, new weapons and equipment, a few new enemies, some enemies from previous titles and introduced new character features to the four classes introduced in earlier games.

* ''[[VideoGame/EarthDefenseForceIronRain Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain]]'': A [[SpinOff spin-off]] title announced on Tokyo Game Show 2017 for the ''Playstation 4'' with a different take on combat and storytelling. It was developed by Yukes. In Japan it wasn't even titled "Chikyuu Boueigun" and the title font suggest that it's a sequel to Insect Armageddon.

* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce2017'' / ''Earth Defense Forces 3'' (2007, 360) -- Released in 2006 in Japan, and while this is the third game in the series, it is first game to get a North American release. The game is more-or-less a remaking of the original ''Earth Defense Force'' since the game much like original.

* ChainmailBikini: More like "[[LeotardOfPower High-tech Leotard Armor]]" for the Wing Divers of the fourth game.

* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForceInsectArmageddon'' (2011, [=PS3=], 360, PC) -- More or less a follow-up to ''Earth Defense Force 2017'', however it was developed by Vicious Cycle Software instead and the first game developed outside of Japan. Unlike the previous games, ''Insect Armageddon'' is a linear objective-based game with only a small number of levels.

* ''[[VideoGame/EarthDefenseForceIronRain Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain]]'': A [[SpinOff spin-off]] title announced on Tokyo Game Show 2017 for the ''Playstation 4'' with a different take on combat and storytelling.