The definitive tower defense game for Xbox LIVE, Defense Grid: The Awakening is easy to pick up, engrossing to play, and hard to set down. Strategically place your towers on the map to prevent alien enemies from stealing your power cores. Play for just fifteen minutes or several hours! This award-winning game includes 10 hours of story play with 20 unique maps in the Awakening campaign, four bonus Borderlands maps, a wide variety of tower and enemy types, an interactive soundtrack, plus over 100 unlockable challenge modes adding dozens of hours of additional fun. Protect the Cores!

* Multiple levels: The game features 20 story levels with four bonus Borderlands levels with new terrain, unique placement of roads, platforms, obstacles, tower build locations, and open areas for you to plan your strategy. There's also 100 interesting challenge modes with unique situations and objectives that may alter your strategies.
* Tons of play: There are 10 hours of story-driven play with dozens of hours and more of challenge mode play.
* Unique enemies and towers: Defeat 15 different enemy types that become increasingly strong, and that use a variety of strategies in order to steal your cores. Build 10 different tower designs with three levels of capability for each, featuring unique weapon effects and trade-offs for each type.
* Achievements and leaderboards: Earn twelve new achievements, and track your progress on the leaderboards where you can compare your score with that of your friends.