Earth's Dawn
"Developed by OneorEight and previously released in Japan under the name Earth Wars, "Earth’s Dawn" fuses frenetic side-scrolling action mechanics with RPG elements and a hard-edged manga aesthetic to deliver…
Earth's Dawn is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by OneorEight, released 18 September 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android.
What Earth's Dawn is
Earth's Dawn is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by OneorEight and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"After decades of peace, the Earth was decimated by an invasion from an alien race known to humans as E.B.E. The E.B.E. moved across the planet like a plague of locusts, consuming anything in their path and wiping out most of humanity. All attempts to fight back were futile, as the E.B.E. appeared to be resilient to every kind of weapon that mankind could offer. At the last moment a breakthrough was made: by using weaponry crafted from the E.B.E’s own technology, a weakness was discovered that could be exploited. Bionic implants were quickly developed and implanted into the most superior forces left alive, creating super soldiers capable of taking the fight to the E.B.E. A plan was devised…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Earth's Dawn holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i5-3470, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 / Direct X 11 supported graphics card w/ shader model 5.0.. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Earth's Dawn launched on 18 September 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Mad Max and Soma. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Mad Max, Soma.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
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