Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4940 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Essential Games
• Released on: 2007-04-13
• Platform: PlayStation2

Manufacturer's Description
Giant insects plague our cities. Mankind's future hangs in the balance; the GDF troops must discover the source of the invasion and exterminate the threat! With enemies so enormous ants, spiders, monsters and UFO's...mans last hope belongs to the Global Defence Force.

Customer Reviews

Better than Earth Defence Force 2017 on the 360
If you liked EDF 2017 on the Xbox 360 and you own a PS2, then this game is for you. It's better in pretty much every single way (apart from the helicopter gunship lacking missiles).

This was developed after EDF and it shows (EDF is really the second in the series; the first was for PSone). Two characters, each with their own weapons. Day and night levels. Better music and atmosphere. Better special effects (shattering glass and exploding containers). Better levels with much more variety (including real-world locations).

I can't praise it highly enough. Hours of fun still left in the PS2 and don't forget it's got split-screen co-op.

THEY JUST KEEP COMING !!!!!!
Bought this from the reviews already presented on this game and it's been so much fun. Up to level 40+ and seems that just when you've squashed as many ants, spiders and saucers as you thought possible....there's another batch hatching just up the street.

Some missions you fail badly at but then just have another stab with a bigger rocket or missile launcher...but watch out on the ones that track or they'll end up back in your lap...ouch !. Also found that your better on foot as the jet bike and copter controls are dire.

Sheer blasting brilliance.
This has been hyped heavily on Digitiser, Channel 4's teletext computing magazine, and to be honest I can see why. It's criminal that this has taken two years to get a UK release. Criminal too, to think that a budget games company can produce something like this on a shoestring compared to some of the dross turned out by larger developers (THQ, EA, UBISOFT to name but three who could do with a good kicking :o) )

Basically this is Robotron in 3D: Spiders, ants, flying things, (Godzilla!) descend from their spaceship in wave upon wave and it's your job to blast them all to kingdom come. The scenery changes and occasionally you'll come up against an immense `Shadow Of The Collossus' type boss. But it's not subtle, there's no tactics to it whatsoever and no one's going to be dishing out laurels for innovation, graphics or design.

So, you want stealth? Buy a Hitman game. You want adventure & a story? Try Okami.

Want to blast giant bugs that are running amok all across the planet? Welcome to Global Defence Force!

It's a fabulous 3rd person shooter, one of the very best on the PS2, and for pure, visceral arcade thrills it just doesn't get any better. The size of the bugs, the scale of the landscape and the palpable tension when you're caught in the middle of a buzzing throng of poison spitting flying ants waiting for your super weapon to reload is brilliant. And the overwhelming rush of adrenaline when you finally shoot your way out brings back fond memories of escaping the ghosts in Pacman, swerving past enemies in Bomb Jack or clearing that final wave in Tempest.

They really don't make games like this anymore. It's a gem and you need it.

Word of warning, this is becoming ridiculously hard to find but at the time of writing, both eBay and playasia.com had them at a reasonable price. Also GDF's sequel appeared earlier in the year on the 360. It's called Earth Defence Force 2017 and is a 3 or 4 star game at best. The similarly titled Global Defence Force: Tactics on the PS2 is an RPG and worth only 2 or 3 stars. Don't get them confused.