There are a lot of reasons to enjoy Insect Armageddon over 2017, the online multiplayer, survival mode, better performance among them. Unfortunately, handing the reigns over to a U.S. developer has stripped it of a lot of the cheese factor that came with poor translation and the overall budget feel of the original. Plus, this game seems much, much shorter. I understand there are 4 troop types to play and level up now, but some of my favorite stuff from the original were storming the ant tunnels and how the game just seemed to go on forever, and there were different locations, like the beach.

Also, the forced cheesiness is pretty horrible. Hearing some soldier yell, "This is like a videogame I played on time!" just makes me cringe, not laugh, like hearing some monotone voice in the first one say, "Come over here so I can kill you."

I'll probably spend some time leveling up a few of the classes to see the weapons, but overall it's kind of a letdown after waiting 4 years for my next silly, B-movie game fix.

I've always kind of wanted to play 2017 due to the cheese factor, but the new one doesn't interest me at all.

The question is how can you make a better game than the previous one that was liked partly for how bad it was?

2017 was better. But EDF 2 was the best. IA is clearly the weakest of the series but its still alarmingly good.

I agree that I had more fun in 2017 then Armageddon, though that isn't saying that I didn't like Armageddon. Part of the amazingness of 2017 was that it had me laughing the whole way through. Watching ants fly off into space after a blast from my favourite shotgun and the different pitched screams that you heard when shooting your entire squad with a grenade launcher never seemed to get old.