Defense Grid

by Aspyr

Product Features

• Battle 15 different enemy types that become increasingly stronger, and employ a variety of strategies in an attempt to bypass the player?s defenses.
• Utilize 10 different tower types with 3 levels of capability each. Each tower has 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
• High Replay Value -each game level can be solved in many different ways, with increasing rewards for improved efficiency
• Explore 20 unique environments, each with a different placement of roads, tower build locations, and open areas to plan a strategy around

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0028J34UO
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: June 15, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,297 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Defense Grid: The Awakening is the definitive Tower Defense Strategy game that’s easy to pick up, engrossing to play, and hard to set down. Strategically place your towers on the map to prevent alien enemies from stealing your power cores. Play just for fifteen minutes or several hours! This award winning game includes 8 hours of story play with 20 unique maps, a wide variety of tower and enemy types, an interactive soundtrack, plus 60 unlockable challenge modes adding dozens of hours of additional fun. Protect the Cores!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT. JUST EXCELLENT!!, June 20, 2009

By 

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Defense Grid (DVD-ROM)

This year indie groups seem to be the ones keeping PC gaming alive. After the brilliant World of Goo and the innovative iFLUID and CRAYON PHYSICS, DEFENSE GRID comes along and reminds me how much fun an intelligent PC game can be!

The basic idea is simple enough: you have a power supply with a limited number of cores. Aliens will try to walk (and some fly) in and out with one or more of them. Your job is to place defensive towers to kill them off before they reach the exit. The more aliens you kill the more credits to spend on towers you get. Wave after wave even more aliens will come - so you better choose wisely where to place your towers. It seems simplistic but I assure you it is not.

Different aliens require different types of defenses. From projectile and field to short and long range (and numerous upgrades), there is no short supply of defense towers. And since their deployment and upgrades are not instantaneous, you need to plan ahead (there is a tactical screen on top that foretells what kind of aliens are incoming).

As the game progresses there is more freedom in where to place your towers and, subsequently, reroute the aliens' influx. That is really fun! Make them serpentine around your more powerful towers (and delay them with the Temporal Distortion ones) to wipe them out before they even reach your power cores.

The graphics are very well done, with full zooming capabilities. The camera gets a bit jumpy when fast zooming in, a feature I particularly liked because it reminded me of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA external shots. The environments are beautifully designed with attention to detail and (contrary to full-priced releases such as SPACE SIEGE) never get boring.

I really liked this game. If you decide to bite the bullet too, be prepared to get really hooked. This is the most ADDICTIVE game ever since Civilization II!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Tower Defense game so far, February 24, 2010

By 

irukandji - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Defense Grid (DVD-ROM)

No DRM, can play without DVD. Also comes with the Steam version.

20 Maps

Each map has challenge modes. Their is a challenge mode called "Grinder", which is 100 waves of increasing difficult aliens ("Walkers" to be exact).

This game gets right to it, no fluff or garbage to go through. It's pure tower defense. It has a story, but it is mainly a narrator talking while you play.

I'd recommend installing the Steam version. You get leaderboards, achievements, and stats. The stats include how many Gold, Silver, or Bronze medals you won, aliens killed, tower usage statistics. The Steam version with all its perks give this game a lot more longevity, since it only has 20 maps. Despite only having 20 maps, I've played this game a lot. Over 30+ hours.

Minimum Requirements:

Supported OS: Windows XP, Vista
Processor: 1.8GHZ CPU or higher
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard disk space: 1GB
DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c or higher
Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 2, ATI Radeon 9600 or newer (9600-9800, X300-X1950, HD 2400-HD 4870) NVIDIA GeForce 6100 or newer (6100-6800, 7100-7950, 8300-8800, 9600-9800, or GTX 216-280)

Recommended:

Supported OS: Windows XP, Vista
Processor: Dual core 2.0GHZ CPU or higher
Memory: 1GB RAM XP, 1.5GB RAM Vista
Hard disk space: 1GB available space
DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c or higher
Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 3 support and 256MB VRAM such as the following, ATI Radeon X700 or newer (X700-X1950, HD 2400-HD 4870) NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or newer (7600-7950, 8300-8800, 9600-9800, or GTX 216-280)

Supports Microsoft Game Controller for Windows

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Game!!!!, January 3, 2010

By 

eringo "eringo" (metairie,la) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Defense Grid (DVD-ROM)

I spent hours playing this game.Very fun and hard to stop playing.Excellent graphics fun to watch all the upgrades you can do to your base defenses.Pick this game up you will not be disapointed.