• Excellent Game Balance, Pace and Progression. Initially the path of the enemies is clearly defined, and the player chooses which towers to spend their resources on to optimally overcome the enemy forces. The player gains access to a wide variety of towers, each with a unique effect, and can divert the enemies by using the towers as obstacles. In the later levels, there are multiple power core sites to protect and entrance points to defend against, and how the player reroutes the enemy invasion can be critical to success.
• High Replayabiliity There are approximately 8 hours of gameplay in the main storyline, and many hours of play in challenge modes that give players unique starting conditions and objectives. Each game level is very replayable, and can be solved in many different ways, with increasing rewards for improved efficiency.
• Wide Variety of Enemies. Over the course of the game, players battle 15 different enemy types that become increasingly stronger, and employ a variety of strategies in an attempt to bypass the player’s defenses. Some enemies come in large groups, or are individually strong. As the levels progress, the enemies become tougher and more difficult to defeat.
• 20 Unique Levels. Defense Grid: The Awakening has 20 unique environments, each with a different placement of roads, tower build locations, and open areas to plan a strategy around. Each level encourages a different strategy, such as trying to find an optimal path to redirect enemies, making the best use of limited space, and breaking up individual enemy waves to avoid being overwhelmed, all while planning ahead for future waves.
• Numerous Tower Options and Upgrades. There are 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; minimum and maximum ranges. Some towers improve other nearby towers, and some are ideal at specific locations, such as a rear guard tower that unleashes a devastating attack if it has time to charge up.
• Achievements: Successfully completing each level provides a bronze achievement award. Additional goals such as "complete the level with all power cores remaining" or "finish the level with more than 2,000 remaining resources" provide silver and gold accomplishments for a particular level. A novice player may be able to survive the onslaught, but only an experienced player will be able to get all of the gold achievements.

• Windows® 2000/XP/VistaTM with latest updates
• 1.8 GHz CPU or higher
• 512 MB of available system memory
• 1.0 GB of available hard drive space
• DirectX 9.0c or higher, June 2008 version or later 
• DirectX 9 video card with Shader 2 support  and 128 MB video memory such as the following:
  • 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)

Defense Grid: The Awakening Download Recommended System Requirements

• Windows® 2000/XP/VistaTM with latest updates
• Dual core 2.0 GHz CPU or higher
• 1 GB RAM XP, 1.5 GB RAM Vista
• 1.0 GB of available hard drive space
• DirectX 9.0c or higher, June 2008 version or later 
• DirectX 9 video card with Shader 3 support  and 256 MB video memory 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)
• Optionally supports:  Microsoft Game Controller for Windows

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