Defense Grid: The Awakening Review (Xbox 360)

Posted by Mister-X on September 11th, 2009 at 03:23am

There’s something special about the way that Tower Defense games innocently draw you in and the next thing you know it’s 2 o’ clock in the morning and you are still fighting the invading swarms of aliens. Defense Grid: The Awakening doesn’t deviate from this general rule of thumb and promises to keep you entertained with the hours of gameplay it offers.

For me it started on the PC with WarCraft Tower Defense with a number of other titles filling the gap between then and now, with notable mentions going to PixelJunk Monsters, Savage Moon and Comet Crash. With so many games falling into this genre already available on the market, it’s essential for a title to have that little something extra to set it apart from the others and keep you wanting more. Luckily Defense Grid: The Awakening manages to do just that, and it does so by adding power cores to the mix, the ability to fast forward the action and fire the orbital laser at the last minute to try and save your base. A humourous narrator with an endless supply of one-liners also helps to keep the action fresh.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Defense Grid: The Awakening.