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January 2008
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The editors liked
Still great today
Consolidated unit list
Motorbike units
Refreshing change of style
Multiplayer and custom maps.
Darker story that youll actually care about
More realistically-designed characters
Online multiplayer
Graphics tweaked to look less super-deformed and more comic-style.
Terrific online support
Solid map editor
Huge amounts of singleand multiplayer content
New visuals look sharper
More detailed.
The editors didn't like
Simpler CO system
Simpler upper-tier unit sets
No dual-screen missions
No store
The water is death.
Several cut elements and game modes from Dual Strike
Which may go missed by longtime Advance Wars fans.
Writing isnt strong enough to support grim look and feel
Singleplayer campaign can be excessively difficult.
Abstract: Take command of your forces in a battle over the future of dying world in this quality turn-based strategy wargame from Intelligent Systems and Nintendo. Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." He obviously never had...
Abstract: Tank strategy turns to the dark side. Advance Wars: Days of Ruin plunges the player into a world far grimmer than that of its predecessors. The lock-and-load, rock-and-roll style of the series is traded for a more serious, post-apocalyptic tale. The s...
Abstract: Game: Advanced Wars: Days of RuinGenre: Turn-Based StrategyPlatform: Nintendo DSIn the last few months, I’ve been trying to step outside the genres of video games I’m normally attracted to and expand my gaming horizons. This includes playing games of a...
Abstract: NintendoAdvance Wars is easily one of my favorite video game franchises ever created, and certainly one of my favorite to make an appearance on the DS (and honestly, it has good company with titles like Lost in Blue, Hotel Dusk, Phoenix Wright, and Tra...
Abstract: del.icio.us | Digg This | Glink It Up until the new millennium hit, Nintendo wasn’t known for producing killer strategy games. In fact, they weren’t known for producing any strategy games, a void that most gamers never thought about filling...
Abstract: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is the fourth game in the Advance Wars series. The turn-based tactical DS title begins in a world destroyed by a meteor. As the game unfolds and becomes more complex, you learn more about the dark story, and get control of in...
Abstract: The games graphical look in this latest incarnation of Advance Wars has been overhauled to give it a darker and gritty look. While the cartoon flavor of the previous versions is still present this newest entry into the series has a definite darker feel...
Darker story that youll actually care about; more realistically-designed characters; online multiplayer; graphics tweaked to look less super-deformed and more comic-style.
Several cut elements and game modes from Dual Strike, which may go missed by longtime Advance Wars fans.
A new look with classic gameplay intact makes Days of Ruin a win/win for weary Advance Wars fans, purists, as well as anyone who enjoys strategy games.
Abstract: Having somehow never played the GameBoy Advance version of Advance Wars, I found Advance Wars: Dual Strike a refreshing change when it came out on the DS in 2005. It offered what at first seemed like a simple strategy game but became deceptively in-dep...
Abstract: On the Game Boy Advance, we saw a lot of games get advance versions -- no franchise was immune. Many of the new franchises would have the word advance tacked in front of them, too. Advance Wars was, arguably, one of the better games to get this adje...
