Earth Defense Force 2017, known in Japan as Chikyû Boueigun 3 is a third-person shooter developed by Sandlot, and published by D3 Publisher, for the Xbox 360. It is the follow-up to Global Defence Force, and is the first game in the series to be released to North America. EDF 3 was the best selling Games on Demand game in Japan for 2009. In 2013, radio waves from deep space are picked up by scientists, proving to humans that they were not alone in the universe. The Earth Defense Force, a unified multinational military sponsored by nearly every country, is founded a few years later, in... case the aliens prove to be hostile. EDF ground forces are formed around three basic groups; Scout Teams, Ranger Teams, and Storm Teams, which fulfill recon, infantry, and special ops functions, respectively. They are supplied with the latest weapons and equipment, and have hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed on every continent.
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| Release date: | March 20, 2007 |