About Force:
The single greatest story told in a video game. Man’s inhumanity to bug is explored in a touching tale of intrigue and betrayal. While we play from the perspective of humans, the auteurs behind EDF 5 flipped the script, having us as the pests while insects do their best to clean up the planet their god promised them. The themes twist masterfully between the terror of mechanized warfare, the damning actions of Theocratic thinking, without condemning any singular religion for it, and offering the deepest and truest analysis of mans own inhumanity to itself. The humans do not recognize the ants and spiders as such, calling them Alpha and Beta. The root words of the “alphabet.” Something so basic yet unfamiliar to the humans. The only wisdom the humans see in the early parts of the game is that the frog like humanoid aliens are “Just like us!” While spoken by the characters in media as a reference to the bipedal and face having nature of EDFs humanoid aliens, it also speaks directly to us, the player. The invading forces are “just like us.” When I first saw the horrors of civilians and comrade being caught in acidic webs, or the jaws of a powerful red ant, I felt the deep terror of true reflection. Man’s use of killer drones, the accelerationist nature of war, its conquest of a planet at any cost. Even the Kaiju sequences, referencing the beloved “Godzilla”, harken and perfect the fears of nuclear warfare. What brings these beasts down? Is it a greater weapon of war.
