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and dramatic, but never overwhelms the ear or drowns out the sometimes hilarious notes your superiors insist on giving you all mission long. Picture the word balloons in Advance Wars, only spoken by talented actors who specialize in giving appropriately o
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If you want to pick the enemy apart little by little, those tactics works rather well. If you'd rather make things more interesting, and, for instance, lead a gung-ho frontal assault (if you can pull it off), you can do that as well.
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Battalion Wars eliminates RTS-anxiety with simple controls and a gameplay view that places you right into your fighting force. You lead as one of the attacking soldiers and learning how to command your units is a snap.
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The chief problem with Battalion Wars is the AI, or more specifically the lack thereof. Units will do exactly what they are told, to a fault, oftentimes standing firm and getting peppered with enemy fire instead of moving to safer ground.
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Comments: It's always hard to find a good strategic experience for a console. However, with Pikmin and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, the big N seems to be pulling the right strings with the GameCube. Battalion Wars is no different, in that sense.
...read the complete Battalion Wars review at Nintendophiles
But, if you can get past the unnecessarily complex controls and obscene difficulty of said missions, you’ll be rewarded with a rank based on the speed with which you completed your objectives, the damage inflicted on your enemy, and the number of
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The strategic elements that are firmly in place seem to be working against the action elements, when they should be working together: that is to say, it's difficult to be both General and Private in the same fight.
...read the complete Battalion Wars review at 1UP
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