Defense Grid The Awakening
Features
Battle 15 Different enemy types that become increasingly stronger, and emply a variety of strategies in an attempt to bypasss the players 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, increasing rewards for improved efficiency.
Explore 20 unique environments, each with a different palcement of roads, tower build locations, and open areas to plan a strategy around.
Defense Grid The Awakening Achievements
Soundbytes: Soundbyte 1 -- Soundbyte 2
Review By: Browncoat
Rating: 
Defence Grid has the distinction of being the very first downloadable game I have ever played. I wish all the titles I have downloaded since would have similar quality. First off Defence Grid is a tower defence game. I hear you already, "Browncoat, I can play plenty of those online for free." That's true. You can find plenty of them online. Some of them are even pretty good. Defence Grid is better. Perhaps I'm being too bold with that statement, but Defence grid is far and away the sharpest looking, challenging, and most fun I have ever had with a tower defence game. Graphics look crisp and clean, even at full zoom. What's that? Your games won't let you zoom in? Oh yeah, Defence Grid let's you do that.
Ok, attitude aside. You are given various boards with multiple ways to shape the paths of the aliens you are trying to defend against. 10 different towers lie at your disposal and most of the time it's finding the proper balance that leads to victory. Each tower once placed can be upgraded twice, furthering it's range, effect, and damage. How you lay out your paths can be a real mind bender too. Do you wind them around near the begining? Where is a good choke point? Where do I place my special effect towers? All of these are questions you'll ask while playing.
Besides the main story there are several more modes to play, Practice, Challenge, Reverse, And Poison Core to name a few. Poison core is my persoanl favorite. You have very limited resources and if one of the little buggers grabs the core (What you are trying to protect in this game) it causes damage to the little beastie making him more likely to drop it.
Bottom Line: If you enjoy the tower defence style games, give this one a try. You can download the demo to try it out. The 4 extra map packs are also 80 points a piece for two new maps. Cheapest worthy add ons I've ever found! Want another opinion? JasonJames and I disscussed this game in the short lived "Hidden Gem" segment of the podcast in episode 52.
High Points
Challenging, but not frustrating gameplay
Cosmetic changes to towers as you upgrade them may not mean much, but is a really nice touch nonetheless
All of the good features you want with a tower defence game
Low Points
Getting some of the achievements means near perfect playing, and a lot of retries