A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged defense grid
Defense Grid: The Awakening Demo (360)
Sep 28th
Tried this out on my netbook at while back, but it didn’t run. Now there’s a 360 version, though, I got to play it. It’s a fixed-path tower defense game, with an interesting approach to lives, some lovely graphics and an amusing voice over from Jim Ward.
If I had a spare 800 points and wasn’t overloaded with good TD games on the iPhone I’d consider a purchase. That’s not meant to be damning with faint praise but… but I suppose it is, whether that was intention or not.
The problem is, I didn’t play it long enough to get any interesting levels – the first two that I played were very limited. I suspect it gets an awful lot better later on.
Defense Grid: The Awakening Demo (PC)
Jan 22nd
Starts up fine on my little NC10, but is unplayably slow, even with everything else closed, all settings on Low and the computer set to Max Performance. Ah well.
At least that’s better than Dawn of War: Soulstorm, which just refuses to start. In Steam I get a “Game Unavailable” message, starting it directly results in Windows popping up a box about a configuration error. Ah well.
