Defense Grid: The Awakening
A tower defense game where you have to defend Power Cores from being stolen. Tower construction is limited to specified platforms on where you can place 1 out of 10 diffrent upgradeable towers. Towers can not…
Defense Grid: The Awakening is an indie developed by Hidden Path Entertainment, released 8 December 2008 on Xbox One, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Defense Grid: The Awakening is
Defense Grid: The Awakening is an indie game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and released in 2008. It was published by Microsoft. It is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gamebryo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defense video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment for Windows and Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360. The game was one of the titles promoted by Microsoft during their Game Developers Conference keynote speech on February 20, 2008. The game was released for Microsoft Windows on December 8, 2008, and for Xbox 360 on September 2, 2009. The OS X version shipped from Virtual Programming on July 7, 2010.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 87 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Defense Grid: The Awakening holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8GHz CPU or higher, 512 MB RAM and Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support such as the following:. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Defense Grid: The Awakening launched on 8 December 2008, within three weeks of Left 4 Dead, Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia and Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Left 4 Dead, Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Defense Grid: The Awakening yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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