News: The Earth Defense Force adopts a new strategy

May 16, 2006, 09:40 AM

by trevor, via Rakuten -
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Not content to remain a peerless alien-exterminating action game, D3 Publisher's smash-word-of-mouth-hit Simple 2000 Series release The Earth Defense Force 2 is spawning a strategy spinoff, titled The Earth Defense Force Tactics. It's a hex-based, top-down tactical game this time, and it looks similar to Nectaris or Daisenryaku - or by extension, Nintendo's Advance Wars series. The ad copy claims that it will include 50 levels to clear, 250 weapons, and many new units, as well as units in the Pale Wing aerial squad and infantry classes from the first two games. Instead of those masters at urban destruction Sandlot, the developer this time is thinkArts, a little-known developer who has worked on girl-oriented RPGs for Koei, low-budget strategy games published by both Koei and Square Enix, and Squenix's online game Shissou, Yankee Damashii. The experience they've built up may well make them the right team to produce a Simple 2000-budget strategy game that lives up to the EDF series' quality, but as this writer has had zero actual experience with their games, they remain an unknown quantity for now. Simple 2000 Series Vol. 103: The Earth Defense Force Tactics will be released in Japan on July 27. For more information on this and other recent goings-on with D3 Publisher, head over to namako team.