Wes Nihei of GameTap writes, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin kick-starts the rebuild with a darker, grittier storyline to inspire a darker, grittier visual style. The series shifts to a brand-new world that's been pulverized into social chaos by a meteor shower. Marauding bands of well-armed, ex-military units roam the countryside, mercilessly taking anything they want from a few enclaves of survivors. You join up with a small army that's trying to rethread the tattered shreds of society.
The visual facelift helps pull the story out of the quagmire. The traditionally cute, little Advance Wars army men and cartoony-looking military hardware give way to a cleaner, sharper graphics style. It's not quite gritty, but it definitely tempers the cute without completely abandoning classic Advance Wars style.
Advance War multiplayer battles remain a strong point. You can set up four-player fights as usual, but now you can go head-to-head over the 'net with voice chat, too.
Days of Ruin adds some sheen to an already polished product. It's true that the postapocalyptic look and feel make the overall mood darker, but the game maintains the essential Advance Wars style. Fans may find an excuse to face off over some of the changes made to specific battle units, but overall the gameplay and the fun advance intact.
Pros: Sharp controls; huge bank of maps; excellent replay factor.
Cons: Dialogue scenes too long; tired story line; so-so sounds.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "As a gamer I absolutely love strategy games, whether they are turn-based, real-time, fantasy or modern or just something that is completely different I always look forward to the next big strategy game on the horizon so I can get my tactical hat out of the closest again. One of my personal favorite series however hasn’t been around too much lately and that’s starting to get a bit depressing. I am of course referring to Nintendo’s Advance Wars franchise, a series that had a long history with the company from way back on the Famicom before coming over to this side of the world in 2001 on the Game Boy Advance. But after the release of four great games the series just… vanished, never to be heard from again – well today we’re going to try to find out why as we ask the question – where did Advance Wars go?"
Advance Wars died off when Intelligent Systems began to see that Fire Emblem was becoming more prominent
I just want another Battalion Wars title
I would love for this series to come back.. It was so much fun! Like fire emblem but with modern military vehicles/troops.. I dont see why both cant exist. Maybe some people prefer guns to swords.. I like both and would buy the hell out of both if released..
I would say that Intelligent Systems is letting the franchise (and themselves) take a breather, because they do seem to jump back and forth between Wars, Fire Emblem, and Paper Mario.
I would venture to say that another Wars title, especially when Nintendo gets their online running, will be headed our way soon enough. Unless they go left field and develop another Paper Mario, but I'm only ruling that out because Ubi-soft is probably going to give us another Kingdom Battle.
I like fire emblem, awakening was shining, but fate was less brillant. We need a rotation between FE and AW.
Advance wars dual strike is still one of my favorite portable games. The design, special powers and dual matchs were great ideas. Fire emblem can't replace this.
And we need battalion wars for more action games on switch.
A turn-based strategy game of intrigue with a distinct Japanese flavor that takes place in the aftermath of your king's assassination. Roll out the tanks, create more troops, expand your squad, and struggle for territory with war-room levels of control!
"Warfare Advanced"... No, definitely doesn't remind me of Advance Wars at all. LOL.
JK. I hope this game does well.
This game is just shit. Looks and runs really bad in portable mode but playing in TV mode doesn't save the experience either. The story and writing are god awful to the point you just want to skip everything.
You spend about a minute every time you switch it on forced to watch the boot-up cutscene which also stutters.
There's a lot to love in Advance Wars' history, and until we're given another new one, digging back into older titles is the way to go. But where to start?
