Defense Grid: The Awakening on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defense, strategy and sci-fi game
developed and published by Hidden Path Entertainment.
Released on December 08th 2008 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 5,115 reviews of which 4,923 were positive and 192 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.
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- Supported OS: Windows XP, Vista
- Processor: 1.8GHz CPU or higher
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Hard disk space: 1GB available space
- DirectX version: DirectX 9.0c or higher, June 2008 version or later
- Video: Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support 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)
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