Defense Grid: The Awakening

Defense Grid: The Awakening Available Today On XBLA
Defense Grid: The Awakening’s features include edge-of-your-seat gameplay, where players need to defeat hordes of invading enemies

Defense Grid: The Awakening Available on Xbox LIVE Arcade on September 2, 2009
Defense Grid: The Awakening’s unique spin on tower defense gameplay is a perfect fit for the Xbox LIVE Arcade audience

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Defense Grid: The Awakening on Xbox LIVE Arcade features 10 different tower types that can each be upgraded twice. These towers all have unique tradeoffs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire; a large area of effect or damage over time; and minimum and maximum ranges. Over the course of the game’s 10 hours of story play, players battle 15 different types of enemies, each with unique capabilities and strategies, across 24 unique environments. To ramp up the challenge even more, Defense Grid: The Awakening now includes an additional 100 unlockable challenge modes.

• New Borderlands mission pack, which has four new advanced levels and 12 challenge modes.
   
• A unique combination of fixed and open maps that encourage different strategies every time you play.
   
• 24 total unique maps to strategically position your towers on and prevent alien enemies from stealing your power cores.
   
• 100 unlockable challenge modes to extend your gameplay.
   
• 10 different tower types, including Infernos, Teslas, Cannons and more.  Each tower can also be upgraded twice for devastating power.
   
• All towers with unique tradeoffs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire; a large area of effect or damage over time; and minimum and maximum ranges.
   
• 15 different types of enemies, each with unique capabilities and strategies
   
• 10 hours of story and campaign play
   
• Custom soundtracks and loads of achievements

MS Points: 800

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