History VideoGame / EarthDefenseForceInsectArmageddon

%%previous game. The very first mission indicates that they are being invaded by an enemy that they know is using\\
%%genetically modified insects for their own means. They even decide to name their enemy at that point as the Ravagers.\\
%%The game plays very similarly to the previous game but as noted in works page and in the tropes list there are a fair \\
%%amount of disntinctive differences\\ %% Entry dated 7-2-11. I will eventually remove this.

* BeamSpam: The Ravagers ''love'' beam weapons. Both types of Hector have an attack that is best described as a laser machine gun in addition their other energy weapon attacks.

* {{BFG}} : A variety of weapons fall into this category including grenade launchers, rocket launchers, large caliber assault rifles, large caliber sub machine guns, powerful missile launchers, and an assortment of other weaponry.

* DeathFromAbove: The flying armor gets enough flight ceiling to rain weapons fire on enemies below.

* GratuitousGerman: The Leichenzeit-series of Plasma Rocket Launchers for the Jet Armour; Leichen is "corpses", Zeit is "time". Perhaps fitting, as they are the most powerful Plasma Rocket Launchers available in their own tier.

* GrenadeLauncher: A type of weapon set usable by the various armor classes.
** A whole variety of grenade launchers firing impact or sticky grenades with various effects.

* RedShirtArmy: The generic troopers in the game. They can fight, spout off funny lines like [[TheyKilledKenny They Killed Fatty]], and will follow the player loyally but they are utterly disposable and are likely to die in the ensuing fights.

* ShoutOut: There's a subtle one to Vicious Cycle's previous game ''EatLeadTheReturnOfMattHazard''; EDF soldiers can often be heard shouting "Yeah! Eat Lead!"

* SpidersAreScary: Giant jumping Wolf spiders are all over in the game, along with robot counterparts and the gigantic [[FlunkyBoss Bomber Spider]]. ''Not'' a game for arachnophobes.
** An interview with one of the game designers revealed it also was one of the reasons for including them as they are inherently creepy to many people.

* SpreadShot: The Hemisect assault rifle, among other examples, fires a bullet that splits in two a few meters after it leaves the barrel. The two shots then fly off horizontally at a 45 degree angle to the original shot, making it hard to use against lone enemies and small targets. One of the Jet energy rifles works similarly, but with... well, energy projectiles.

** StockScream: A wide array of them, used for the panicking civilians.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill: This applies to how some of the weapons work. Like hitting an enemy with micro missiles that increase damage output or weapons that are more powerful then necessary for the threats you face in the mission.

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* MostAnnoyingSound: The NPC atmospheric dialogue. There are not a lot of recorded lines and they get repeated constantly.

* MoreDakka: A whole variety of machine guns, assault rifles, SMGs, machine gun turrets, manned auto-cannon turrets, unmanned auto-cannon turret, and other multi-shot-rapid fire weapons follow this trope. The tank has no less than five machineguns, though only two of them are usable - one unusable miniturret on top of the main turret, two player-operated turrets under and in front of the main turret, and two unusable hull machineguns.

* GiantSpiders: Giant Wolf Spiders, [[ItGotWorse Giant Cybernetic Wolf Spiders]], and Giant Mechanical Daddy Long Legs. Not a game for arachnophobes.

* AWorldwidePunomenon: Achievement names, ''Nothing Turret''[[hottip:*:Get 500 kills using Base Turrets]] in particular.

* AbnormalAmmo: Homing bullets, homing lasers, bouncing bullets, bouncing lasers, exploding bullets, ([[RuleOfThree but no exploding lasers]]), super-cooled particle beams, miniaturized particle beam cannons, plasma stickybombs fired from sniper rifles, cluster grenades that launch missiles, or stickybombs, or... the list goes on.

** The Battle Armor is capable of wielding heavy machine guns and large, mortar-like grenade launchers.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: A whole stack of them - many of the weapons unlocked by the armour-specific DLC packs are significantly more powerful than the other weapons in the same tier in one way or another. A solid example would be the Fleebus M-ARS ([[FunWithAcronyms Magnum Assault Rifle System]]) - very high powered assault rifle. Whilst it has less capacity than some of the others, it reloads quickly and is very accurate.

* MoreDakka: A whole variety of machine guns, assault rifles, SMGS, machine gun turrets, manned auto-cannon turrets, unmanned auto-cannon turret, and other multi-shot-rapid fire weapons follow this trope.

* HumongousMecha: The Hector Mark II is possibly one of the largest semi-realistic HumongousMecha you'll see in a game. There are also the Hectors and Ravager Mantises both as tall as or bigger than some buildings. The [=EDF=] get a RealRobot with a [[GatlingGood gatling/rotary cannon]] and [[StuffBlowingUp rapid-fire howitzer]].

* AbnormalAmmo: Homing bullets, homing lasers, bouncing bullets, exploding bullets, super-cooled particle beams, recursive missiles...
* ActionBomb: The Ticks latch onto you and explode.

* BoringButPractical: Some of the early weapons are kind of dull in comparison to weapons you start to access later but are very practical.

-->'''Intel:''' ''"The trick is to shoot them, whilst at the same time, avoiding their attacks."''

* HumongousMecha : Two enemy types are this and are as tall or bigger than some buildings. There is also a player controlled mecha type vehicle.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: A whole stack of them - many of the weapons unlocked by the armour-specific DLC packs are significantly more powerful than the other weapons in the same tier in one way or another.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: There are at least two humanoid type mecha the player can encounter as well as a player pilotable mech suit with [[GatlingGood with a Gatling Gun]] and a [[{{BFG}} Cannon]].

* RecursiveAmmo: A common theme among the various weapons, especially missile launchers. Two common variants are cluster munitions or bullets that split into more bullets.

* ShoutOut: There's one to Vicious Cycle's previous game EatLeadTheReturnOfMattHazard when an EDF soldier shouts "Yeah! Eat Lead!"

* SpidersAreScary: Giant jumping Wolf spiders are all over in the game.

* LightningGun: The Neptanzer Q-series Assault Rifles are sort of rapid-fire shotgun-pattern lightning guns, particularly the Neptanzer Duplicus, which is basically an InfinityMinusOneSword for most of Hard mode.

* GatlingGood: The EDF Mechs have a gatling, There are [[MoreDakka Quad Gatling Turrets]], and the Tactical armor can drop a Auto-cannon turret which has a Gatling gun.

* DagerDeadpan: Sully is always calm and professional, even when he's being a little... well, he's not exactly the sanest pilot you'll ever meet, that's for sure.

* ChuckYeager: Sully is always calm and professional, even when he's being a little... well, he's not exactly the sanest pilot you'll ever meet, that's for sure.

* ActionBomb: The Ticks latch onto you and explode, killing themselves in the attack.
* AreaOfEffect: Some of the weapons have an area of effect.
* ArmCannon: The Hectors have built in weapons for their arms.
* ArtificialStupidity: There are some signs of this in the game. While the A.I. is not terrible it does not stop the A.I. bots on your team from plastering you with multiple grenade launcher rounds because the enemy is nearby or running in front of you while your trying to shoot a particularly evasive enemy.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Giant Robots, Giant Robot Praying Mantises, Giant Robot Daddy Long Legs, and an host of other Giant enemies.

** [[spoiler: The ''gigantic'' space ship in the final mission shoots sweeping laser beams all over the place, on top of constant barrages of explosive shots that look suspiciously like photon torpedoes.]]

-->'''Intel:''' ''"Shoot them lots whilst avoiding their attacks!"''

* MagneticWeapons: Rail guns for the Flight armor.

* MissileLockOn: All the missiles either have an automatic (passive lock on) or manual (active lock on) that follows this trope. Once the missiles are fired they need no further aiming guidance from the player and are suggested for use against airborne enemies.
** There are some other weapon types that fire some sort of homing projectile.

* RoboTeching: Some of the various guided homing projectiles do this.

* SuperPersistentMissile: Some of the homing projectiles will constantly circle the target until either they hit it, they strike another object or enemy, or blow up due to a timer.

* ZergRush: They are giant bugs, what did you expect?

* SuperPersistentMissile: Some of the homing projectiles will - if they cannot hit the target - constantly circle the target until they hit it, strike another object or enemy, or blow up due to a timer.

Developed by the American Game studio Vicious Cycle Software and Distributed by D3 Publishers. The game is for both the PS3 and {{Xbox 360}} gaming platforms, as well as PC via {{Steam}}.

The game departs from the look of it's predecessor but keeps the spirit of the game play. The game has newer graphics and effects making the game look more modern. The Developers worked with the original distributors, D3, to help keep the game in the spirit of it's predecessors. In addition, comments and opinions from the fan base were taken into the account and in many cases implemented into the game. More weapons, the return of a flight based armor, re-loadable energy weapons, online and local co-op, and cheesy dialogue are some of the examples. You're still fighting over the top B-movie style enemies. They range from an assortment of giant bugs, giant cybernetic bugs, space ships, giant robots, and the usual alien flying craft.

The game makes a major change with its new game play modes. The game has single player with AI bot support, Local or Couch Co-Op, Xbox Live and Play Station Network support for online co-op, Remix mode and a new Survival Mode. The bot support is in the form of one or two AI bots depending on game mode. The game ups the ante in weapons from 100+ to Over 300+ different weapons, which are divided into sets usable by one of the new armor classes.

* The Trooper Armor: Which is most like Storm 1 from VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce2017 and can use the broadest selection of weapons. The armor also gets the bonus of being the only armor that can use certain unique weapons none of the other armors can. This armor has the fastest reload times, fastest foot speed, and the fastest revive times for downed allies making him a CombatMedic. The armors benefits are offset by a lack of special abilities and having low defense.
* Jet Armor: A return of the Pale Wing Style Character from the earlier games. Like the Pale Wing character, the Jet Armor can fly and uses a large arsenal of energy weapons. The armor can fly up to some of the building tops, dodge mid air, and has limited flight capabilities. The flight and weapon reloads use it’s special ability energy bar. The armor is limited in it’s ability to fight enemies close in and has low defense.
* Tactical Armor: This is the armor type that can utilize deployable items. The armor can carry two weapons and drop deployables onto the field which feed off of the special ability energy bar for the armor. The deployables include machine gun turrets, plasma turrets which fire an area of a effect attack, mines, and radar turrets. The armor cannot use as many powerful weapons as the other armors and is not as good at fighting flying enemies as the other armors.
* Battle Armor: Which looks like a power armored soldier with a arm mounted EnergyShield. The Battle armor wields some of the most powerful weapons in the game. It can load up with heavy machine guns and other powerful ordinance. It's energy shield also doubles as a weapon being able to either electrocute enemies that come too close or emitting a powerful blast wave of energy. The armor is slow normally and moves even slower with the EnergyShield Deployed. It's abilities for it's shield also rapidly drain it's energy bar.

You can power up your armors in a manner similar to gaining xp based on how many points you earn in the missions. There are 8 total armor levels. As you improve your armors they gain access to more powerful weapons, improved abilities, increased health, and things like better reload speeds.

The game uses a point purchase shop and a unique weapon system to buy the various weapons in the game. The special weapons that are dropped by elite enemies, are randomized like in the previous games. You no longer have to gather armor pickups to increase your health, instead you level your armor to gain more health.

Instead of the traditional multitude of short missions with several difficulty levels. The game consists of 3 chapters with 5 missions each. Each mission takes place in a themed area in the city of New Detroit. Each mission is longer then the missions in the other games. After beating a mission players can go back and play them again as they are in campaign mode missions. Once the game is beaten the first time you unlock remix mode. Instead of the same enemy lay out in the missions, the game mixes up what enemies spawn each mission. There is now only 3 difficulty modes. The difficulties are Normal, Hard, and Inferno.

This VideoGame Provides Examples of the Following Tropes.

* ActionBomb: The Bomb ticks latch onto you and explode killing themselves in the attack.

* CaptainObvious: Due to Intel's... ''[[{{Understatement}} limited]]'' knowledge of the enemies, a lot of their advice will come off as this;

* NoisyGuns: The Guns make a ridiculous clacking/rattling sound along with the reload animation.

* PinballProjectile: Several weapons fire shots that will bounce around a few times before being expended or hitting an enemy.

The game departs from the look of it's predecessor but keeps the spirit of the game play. The game has newer graphics and effects making the game look more modern. The Developers worked with the original distributors, D3, to help keep the game in the spirit if it's predecessors. In addition, comments and opinions from the fan base were taken into the account and in many cases implemented into the game. More weapons, the return of a flight based armor, re-loadable energy weapons, online and local co-op, and cheesy dialogue are some of the examples. You're still fighting over the top B-movie style enemies. They range from an assortment of giant bugs, giant cybernetic bugs, space ships, giant robots, and the usual alien flying craft.

* ArtMajorBiology: You're fighting them Trooper.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The glowing red spots on hectors, the red spots and portals on the carriers, the chest piece on the Hector Mark 2s', [[spoiler:the flashing spots on the queen ant]] and the portal and red spot on the daddy long legs.

* BeamSpam: Hectors for both varieities have an attack that is best described as a laser machine gun in addition their other energy weapon attacks.
** Daddy long legs will fire both it's laser beams and what looks like photon torpedoes from star trek at you.

** [[spoiler: The massively large space ship in the final mission shoots sweeping laser beams all over the place in addition to the shots that look like photon torpedos from star trek]]

** The battle Armor is capable of wielding heavy machine guns and large mortar like grenade launchers

* CaptainObvious: Due to intel's... limited knowledge of the enemies, a lot of their advice will come off as this.

** The ravager carriers bombard the city with energy projectiles that break up human beings on the molecular level.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: It takes very little effort to make the cars in the game explode.

* FragileSpeedster: The Flight Armor and Trooper Armor are fast but have low defense when compared to the other two armors.
* FrickinLaserBeams: The Frickin Gun Ships fire Frickin Laser Beams as one of their attacks.
** The Hector Mark 2 has an attack that is giant beam weapon.
** [[spoiler: The massively large space ship in the final mission shoots sweeping laser beams all over the place]]
** Daddy Long legs Bosses have a 3 shot sweeping laser beam attack.

* GiantSpiders: Giant Wolf Spiders, [[ItGotWorse Giant Cybernetic Wolf Spiders]], and Giant Mechanical Looking Daddy Long Legs Enemy.

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Ravagers showed up guns blazing and the people of the earth gladly return the favor. You often exterminate every enemy in an area that you can lay your gun sights on.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: There are at least two humanoid type mecha the player can encounter as well as a player pilotable mech suit with [[GatlingGood with a Gattling Gun]] and a [[{{BFG}} Cannon]].
* KillerRobot: The various Giant Mecha like Robots in the game, the Hectors, are quite intent on killing every human they find namely the player and allies.

* RandomlyDrops: Special weapons drop from elite enemies and are randomized. You will get repeats.

* RecursiveAmmo: A common theme among the various weapons. Two most common variants are cluster munitions or bullets that split into more bullets.

* StickyBomb: Some of the weapons have this as either the primary shot or as a [[RecursiveAmmo Sub-munition]]
* SuperPersistentMissile: Some of the homing projectiles will ,if they cannot hit the target or strike another object, will constantly circle the target until they hit it or blow up due to a timer.

* WeaponizedAnimal: Genetically altered insects are turned into a form of living mutated shock troops for the Ravagers.
* ZergRush: They are giant bugs what did you expect?

Developed by the American Game studio Vicious Cycle Software and Distributed by D3 Publishers. The game is for both the PS3 and {{Xbox 360}} gaming platforms.