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Overall Critic Score:3.7423
Advance Wars Critic Reviews
There is a perfect blend of simplicity and complexity that makes this game so highly addictive....read the complete Advance Wars review at Gaming Age
Advance Wars is based around the fictional conflict between the Orange Star and Blue Moon armies. The two countries have been bitter rivals for years but in the last few months border skirmishes have died down. Recently though, a bearded madman called...read the complete Advance Wars review at Thunderbolt
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If I were a complete recluse, and had never heard about Japan's best handheld strategy game - Advance Wars, I would still be able to easily deduce where it had come from by taking one look at the graphics. Starting with the opening movie sequence, and...read the complete Advance Wars review at Game Vortex
The name alone gives one the feeling of epic battles and huge armies throwing themselves at their foe. For Nintendo's Intelligent Systems, this is a long running and highly innovative strategy series, which has graced nearly every Nintendo console in...read the complete Advance Wars review at Planet Gamecube
One of the best aspects of Advance Wars is the sheer amount of things you can do. If you choose not to play the Campaign mode, you can still fight and earn battlefields in the War Room, or can get friends together and play multiplayer on either one GBA...read the complete Advance Wars review at Into Liquid Sky
As I’m sure darn near no one outside of Jappan knows, this game is a sequel to one of the most popular handheld games in Japan, Game Boy Color Wars. This game is the best reason to own a Game Boy Advance. It’s masterfly designed. The major problem...read the complete Advance Wars review at GamersMark
A deep, quite cartoony and consummately Japanese turn-based wargame with depth, character and replayability to burn....read the complete Advance Wars review at Electric Playground
This is Advance Wars, the most original first party Nintendo title to be released for the Gameboy Advance yet. Various incarnations of this Intelligent Systems developed franchise have appeared on the Famicom, Gameboy, Super Famicom, and Nintendo 64... bu...read the complete Advance Wars review at Gaming Target
Advance Wars is an extremely tardy young videogame, thanks to its European release being delayed by Nintendo following the September 11th terrorist attacks. With no handheld adversaries to speak of though, the game's actual release date has always been s...read the complete Advance Wars review at Eurogamer
Advance Wars is awesome. This turn-based strategy game is brand-name and license free, so don't glance over the box when you see it on local shelves. The game has been designed as a near perfect Game Boy Advance title, with almost every known system...read the complete Advance Wars review at IGN
Advance Wars is essentially a turn-based strategy game. But it's Advance Wars addictive play style and deep mechanics that make intelligent systems little beaut such a stand out title. From the get-go you wont be able to access most of the game until you...read the complete Advance Wars review at NZGamer
So what has this game done to deny every rule in the book, and make one of the oldest gaming concepts in the world - fun? How can a turn-base yes TURN-BASED strategy game be so good? Well one of the first things that strikes you is the appearance. The...read the complete Advance Wars review at Cubed3
This being the first game that I picked up for the Gameboy Advance, I had my doubts. I wondered if this game would give me what I'd been thriving for, a challenging strategy game. After playing for 10 minutes I realized what all the hype was about. This...read the complete Advance Wars review at GameCube Cafe
Honestly, who doesn't love a good strategy game about kids killing each other in a war? Although the game never really points out this fact, that is indeed what the basic premise of Advance Wars is -- armies of children waging war on each other. And...read the complete Advance Wars review at Jaded Gamer
Developed by Intelligent Systems, Advance Wars thrusts you into the role of a military advisor in the Orange Star army....read the complete Advance Wars review at GameSpot
Advance Wars is the best reason to own a Gameboy Advance right now. With its mix of ingenious gameplay, fantastic graphics, and wonderful multiplayer mode, this game makes the system shine....read the complete Advance Wars review at Game Rankings
Developed by Intelligent Systems, Advance Wars thrusts you into the role of a military advisor in the Orange Star army. The game opens with a diverse 14-mission field training exercise, which delves into all aspects of the game, including deployment,...read the complete Advance Wars review at GameSpot
Turn-based war game strategy comes to the portable screens of the Game Boy Advance with this release of Intelligent Systems' Advance Wars from Nintendo. Players have a conventional top-down perspective on the battlefield, though the screen cuts to a more...read the complete Advance Wars review at AllGame
Advance Wars is a meld of two differing strategy genres. First are the turn-based strategy games, like Civilization. Second are the real-time strategy (RTS) games like Warcraft. Like both genres, Advance Wars centers on the production of military units...read the complete Advance Wars review at Gamecritics
Offering a perfectly balanced and finely tuned experience that proves both addictive and immersive. A very complete and attractive package, overall, and one that everyone will enjoy....read the complete Advance Wars review at Ferrago
Unfortunately, while Advance Wars devotes the entirety of its gameplay toward a military simulation, there is utterly no thought put towards the moral implications of armed combat. To be honest, such an aspect is not to be expected, as the subject is...read the complete Advance Wars review at Gamecritics
Advance Wars pits two or more armies against each other at the same time. Each army has a leader commanding them called the CO (commanding officer). Every CO has a different and unique power. Before each battle, you decide which CO you want to battle...read the complete Advance Wars review at My Gamer
Nintendo knows you've probably had no interest in strategy games so far in life, and has done everything possible to craftily tempt you into wanting to play the game. It's impeccably presented for one thing, and there's a cracking story with strong...read the complete Advance Wars review at Computer & Video Games UK
Advance Wars is a challenging, full-scale war filled with several layers of strategy and myriad gameplay options....read the complete Advance Wars review at GamePro
First let me say wow. This game is simply astounding. Having a GBA without this game is like having a 64 with no Zelda, An X-Box with no Halo, it's pure insanity. This is a turned based strategy game. If you've ever played a Command and Conquer game,...read the complete Advance Wars review at PGNx Media
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