Defense Grid: The Awakening (2008)
Platforms: Windows · Xbox 360 · Macintosh · Xbox OneGenres: Genres · Strategy / tactics · Diagonal-down · Free camera · Real-time · Tower defense · Point and select · Sci-fi / futuristic
After a thousand years of peace, the aliens have returned to invade once again. The only hope of stopping them is to activate the Defense Grid and drive them away, as was done before. Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defense game, in which you...
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E10+
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- Duane Decker· DD Music
- Cesare Rasini· Vocal Performance
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- Carin Baker· Voicecaster
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- Lori Mezoff· SLM Partners
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- Geoff Selzer· Special Thanks, Thanks to Emergent Game Technologies
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- Jay Gordon· Executive Producer
- Randall Davis· Associate Producer
- Kelly Bates· Senior Project Manager
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- John Merrill· Build Engineer
- Andrew Brazell· Director of QA
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- Dustan Coleman· Compatibility Supervisor
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- Jason McClure· Technical Support Manager
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