Earth Defense Force 5 Gets Starship Troopers DLC

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D3 Publisher has announced Earth Defense Force 5 has topped 300,000 copies on PlayStation 4, and to celebrate they’ve enlisted the Mobile Infantry from Robert A. Heinlein’s classic Starship Troopers series.

Featured above, the developer released a new trailer showing off the new collaboration DLC for the game, which features in-game characters donning what appears to be Mobile Infantry gear, as well as some kind of appearance by series protagonist Juan ‘Johnny’ Rico, but he looks quite a bit different from Casper Van Dien.


The trailer even has one of the series’ hallmark pieces from its propaganda, “Would You Like to Know More?”, but in this case they say “Motto”, or Japanese for more. It’s worth pointing out that Rico’s look is based on his appearance in the CGI movie Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, the latest spinoff in the Starship Trooper franchise.

Earth Defense Force 5 is currently available for PlayStation 4 in Japan.

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