Hidden Path Entertainment today announced that Defence Grid: The Awakening will be released on the Xbox Live Arcade beginning September 2nd, 2009 for the price of 800 MS points.

Defence Grid: The Awakening is a tower defence game featuring beautiful environments, 10 different tower types that can each be upgraded twice. These towers all have unique tradeoffs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire; a large area of effect or damage over time; and minimum and maximum ranges. Over the course of the game’s 10 hours of story play, players battle 15 different types of enemies, each with unique capabilities and strategies, across 24 unique environments. To ramp up the challenge even more, Defense Grid: The Awakening now includes an additional 100 unlockable challenge modes.

Check back soon for our full review.