Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain
The EDF series moves away from its traditional series and into new territory with this new project. Developed by YUKE'S, with a theme song by Takashi Niigaki and creatures designed by Ryu Oyama for an EDF game…
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain is a shooter developed by Yuke's, released 11 April 2019 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain is
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain is a shooter game developed by Yuke's and released in 2019. It was published by D3 Publisher. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In year 2028, earth was attacked by the outer space invader “Aggressor”. The huge levitation object called the “Hivecraft“ which is indeed 1km in total length, came flying suddenly from the outer space, and began to attack all parts of the world by dropping numerous insect looking huge creatures and murder weapons. It flew over United States to Russia, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe only in three days. Human beings established a ground defense force (called the EDF) ahead of the national fence and fought back against the invaders. However, the war situation was in bad condition and the beautiful cities began to turn into mountain of rubbles. As a result, the important military bases of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 44 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Earth Defense Force series
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain is the second of 3 entries we hold in the Earth Defense Force series. It arrived 14 years after Global Defence Force. The next entry was Earth Defense Force 2 for Nintendo Switch in 2021.
How it was received
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-8100, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti/ Radeon HD 7790 2GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 24GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain launched on 11 April 2019, within three weeks of Days Gone, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Anno 1800 and Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Days Gone, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Anno 1800, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced.
Official trailer
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