Recently, the UGO Games Blog got to try out Defense Grid: The Awakening, a game of the Tower Defense genre. During the game, you will be placed in a number of old research facilities, and you're job is to protect them from the dreaded aliens that are surrounding them. They're in search of the rare Power Cores.

UGO described the various ways you are able to upgrade your towers. Cannons, Flamethrowers, and Lasers are just some things you can add on. In addition, the rendered graphics were used from the Gamebryo engine, the same one that helped in the making of Oblivion.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is being developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and is coming out for the PC and XBLA. The PC version is coming out on November 5th, while the XBLA one is schedule for release sometime in 2009.