Video Game Reviews: Game Boy Advance
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
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Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
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UnderGroundOnline
The Game Boy Advance is a schizophrenic console. It's amusing to see mindless, pick-up-and-play titles like Wario Ware, Inc on the same machine as a 40-hour RPG like Golden Sun. It's as if Nintendo wanted to keep their pedigree for quality games without
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G4 TV
cable make for fantastic, in-depth gaming. Even after you've humiliated all your game-linked "friends" in combat, you're still not finished. "Advance Wars 2" features a map editor for making your own custom battlefields. Good God! What is it good for? Abs
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GamerDad
The first Advance Wars was truly a groundbreaking game for portable gaming. While others had tried to create a deep strategy game for a portable console, for example the blah Warlocked and pretty good Heroes of Might and Magic, Advance Wars was the first
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Games are Fun
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a turnbased strategy game centered around classic, realistic human warfare. Units include your direct combat units (Battle Copters, Infantry, Tanks) and indirect combat units (Rockets, Missles, Battleship). The
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Cubed3
Okay let's begin with those graphics. Yes those graphics, the cutesy - kiddie graphics you fell in love with once before and are about to do so again. In fact there so similar that if you put two maps together that are designed to look similar will
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Deeko
Though there haven't been as many improvements made to the game, Advance Wars 2 still manages to shine... as it is a polished title that simply needs little improvememnt.
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Netjak
An incredibly fun and addictive turn-based strategy game that even with its minimal improvements definitely overshadows what the original contained.
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GameZone
They say that good things come to those who wait. As true as that old saying may be, the video industry indicates the complete opposite. See, what we have here is Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, the sequel to one of Nintendo's sleeper hits.
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DS-x2
It's fair to say that no one was really excited about the original Advance Wars when it appeared some years ago, with many gamers simply bypassing its release and moving on to more familiar titles such as Mario and Zelda. There was little in the way of
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IC-Games
Whenever you hear the words ‘strategy game’ in connection with a console someone will probably try and convince you that it’s like that 3d chess they play in Star Wars. Challenging and intellectual, yet at the same time cool and exciting. Well
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GameSpot
Advance Wars 2 is a successful sequel to one of the GBA's best games.
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Game Power AU
Advance Wars 2 really isn't very different to the original Advance Wars, although this is in no way a bad thing. Being as perfect a game as the original was, the developers could very easily have tweaked the formula too much, destroying the original
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Thunderbolt
This is one of the few times where a sequel overshadows its predecessor. Even though the Advance Wars series will be seeing some time on the Gamecube sometime in the future, Black Hole Rising is still a blessing of wonderful quality, floating in a sea of
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IGN
Advance Wars, easily one of the finest games ever to hit the Game Boy Advance. Intelligent Systems designed an incredibly challenging and thorough turn-based strategy game for the handheld that put all of the hardware's strengths to use, from its focus
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DreamStation.cc
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising adds more units and has different buildings than the first one. The best way to describe Advance Wars is chess on a battlefield. You have units (tanks, helicopters, military troops, etc.) at your command individually.
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Eurogamer
Yeah yeah, we know it's been out for a few weeks now (or a few months if you picked it up on import), but its always worth reviewing the really good ones that got away, eh? Anyone who played the 2001 original will remember it was (and is) among the bes
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GamersMark
So, did you play the original Advance Wars back in 01? If you did, then you likely joined the thousands of hungry fans and brayed like a donkey for a sequel. Advance Wars stood alone as one of the (if not the most) involving and polished Game Boy Advance
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Planet Gamecube
Despite the map design issues, the gameplay is solid and is definitely not a rehash of the original Advance Wars. The additional characters, new story emphasis, and diversity of the scenarios make Advance Wars 2 feel like a brand new game.
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My Gamer
In the first Advance Warsmany different armies were taking on the rest of the world hoping to gain complete control. Now, in Advance Wars 2, all the armies have sided together in order to fight the Black Hole Army and its leader, Slurm. Slurm has
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Pro-G
Best game on the GBA then, that's certainly a way to start a review and for you dear readers, I shall elaborate on why I feel so strongly about this game. It's all about the gameplay. Advance Wars 2 has more gameplay excellence than most games can even
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GamePlasma
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a great game. Advance Wars 2 is a turn based strategy game that allows the player a great deal of options. Perhaps one of its greatest assets is how much there is to the game. One point of clarification though,
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Gamecritics
The original Advance Wars distinguished itself as one of the most complex and sophisticated titles on the Game Boy Advance (GBA) by bravely doing something few other carts have dared to do: it rewarded gamers for their intelligence and careful
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Gaming Target
Portable systems are for easy to pick up, twitch-style games for short attention spanned gamers, right? Then why is it so many great turn-based strategy games are released for the GBA? Apparently enough gamers on the go want something a little more involv
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Jaded Gamer
Even so, there are some issues with the Campaign Mode, which makes up the majority of the one player game. Many of the missions feel as though they are built around strange circumstances and force players to rely on tactics they wouldn't normally use.
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Game Vortex
The map tiles in Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising are very basic. There are perhaps only 10-12 different terrain tiles such as woods, mountains, hills, plains, etc. However, the battle animations are quite good. While it’s not the most graphically
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GameSpy
The first game's campaign was centered on the Orange Star army, but this time around you'll also get to play as the Blue Moon, Yellow Comet, and Green Earth armies as well. Not only does this makes for a much more varied and entertaining single-player
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PALGN AU
We’ll be honest right from the outset and say that the improvements to Advance Wars 2 do not constitute the use of the number 2 in its title. A more appropriate title would have been Advance Wars DX, as Advance Wars 2 feels more like an add-on pack
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GamePro
Advance Wars 2 is pocket d?j? vu, a recurring dream about a place you?ve been a hundred times before.
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AllGame
Turn-based battle advances with this sequel to the acclaimed GBA launch title. Like the original, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising features a cast of amiable characters whose cute animé-style belies challenging, strategically complex gameplay. What at
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Portable Review
As for game play in AW2, it is still a Turn Based Strategy game. You will have to choose your CO, and take him/her into battle. Some battles will require you to build up your army by capturing cities for money and building a destructive force. Some
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