Giant Bomb writes: "Say what you will about Earth Defense Force 2017, but at least it was distinct. Arriving stateside back in early 2007 to players exhausted by WWII shooters and Halo knockoffs, EDF 2017 treated players to massive, chaotic battles against giant mutated insects, laser-blasting walking robots and sky-filling motherships. Sure, it controlled poorly, looked like a Japanese budget game, and was sort of terrible. But it was simple and, in its best moments, totally exhilarating, with fun destruction and chaotic battles against some of the biggest enemies".
Because blowing up UFO's never gets old.
Satisfying visual feedback, so many games have lost this principle and it's sad. Almost everything you do has an interesting and Satisfying reaction, making everything physics based is the key to that, watching everything fly, crumble, and react to your weapons, and slowly increasing you weapons capabilities to do so to an absurd degree, just keeps ramping up the satisfaction of how good it feels to play this game.
The Guardian: "Here then, are some of our favourite apocalyptic scenarios from gaming history, all of them reassuringly fanciful and completely unlikely. "
This week’s highlight, is Capcom’s Remember Me. Aside from that the PlayStation Vita has more new content this week than the PS3, that is if you count Limbo as new content, since it’s already been released on the PS3. However, if you haven’t yet played Limbo, the PlayStation Vita will be the perfect way to do so thanks to how well monochromatic color schemes work so well on the Vita’s OLED screen. - PSLS
Deus Ex, Saints Row 3rd, Machinarium, Orcs Attack(vita) and Virtue's Last Reward(vita)
all on PS+ this month!!!!!
and The Last of Us hits on June 14th...
Awesome month/Awesome year