Global Defence Force

The second game in the _The Chikyuu Boueigun series_ , renamed _Global Defence
Force_ for its English release (similarly the first game was renamed _Monster
Attack_ for its English release).

It’s been two years since the invading alien menace was defeated by the Global
Defence Force (the game renames the “Earth Defence Force” from the previous
game), but like any good off-world threat, they’re back for more, and they’ve
brought new weapons and technology in their attempts to take Earth and
eliminate humanity. Thankfully, the GDF has also been developing new
technology to fight them.

_Global Defence_ Force is a third-person action shooter. Choose from either
an GDF infantryman or the flight-capable Pale Wing, each with different
abilities and dozens of weapons each, and set out to shoot down hordes of
giant insects, enormous robots, and UFOs of incredible scale. You can choose
two weapons to carry for each mission, and pickups dropped by enemies will
unlock new weapons and increase your character’s maximum health. You can play
the game split-screen cooperatively.

Beyond adding a second player class to choose from; the Pale Wing; a fragile
but powerful melee centric character with a limited Jetpack and her own weapon
set, to go alongside the infantry man of the first game, Global Defence Force
doesn’t change much of the basic game play of Monster Attack. But leaving at
that would undersell the game; there are numerous new alien types, weapons and
environments that add much more variety to things. The maps are larger and
more detailed and missions are longer and much more scripted (where as the
original game nearly always threw you into an environment against some
preplaced bug’s, this time you often have some simple objective(s)) to add
further variety. Finally the physics have been notably enhanced.

Like Monster Attack, the player in Global Defence Force fights completely by
themselves despite being part of an army (unless playing offline only 2 player
split screen); the original Japanese version features radio chatter from other
GDF squads and your commanding officer, to give the illusion that you are
fighting alongside others. This was cut from the English release.