Video Game Reviews: Nintendo DS
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
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Advance Wars: Dual Strike
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Game Revolution
It builds on one of the most solid foundations in recent gaming history, expertly incorporates the second screen, puts the stylus to good use, tells a decent story, and magically transforms your dust-collecting Nintendo BS into the powerful and creative
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Modojo
The in-game timer says that I have poured 33 hours into the cart so far, and I estimate that I've completed half of what the game has to offer. DS owners who opt to skip Dual Strike are missing out on the most full-featured and addictive title released
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HonestGamers
For instance, Dual Strike's expanded single player campaign and increased challenge have come as a nice surprise. Each mission is now longer, tougher, and more memorable than the last, and just because the basic gameplay remains the same, that's not to
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UnderGroundOnline
Nazi Germany and the Black Hole Army are very similar in a number of ways. For starters, both are very efficient at building large empires, celebrating said empire by throwing a world war, and promptly losing it all. While modern day Germany is a
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Detroit Free Press
AceGamez
audio as well, with high-end combat effects and a musical score of energetic anthems and hard rockin' battle themes. The bottom line for Advance Wars: Dual Strike is simple: if you own a DS, you MUST buy this game!
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Thunderbolt
This game has it all; the gameplay is solid and far more balanced than those of previous games, the many characters both return and make memorable debuts, and wide variety of new weapons, features and gaming modes will keep you coming back to quench your
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Gamerz-Edge
One of my favorite parts about Advance Wars is the fact that despite its simplistic nature, battles are more than just a few units attacking one another. You have tons of different things to keep into consideration as you plan your strategies. Several
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Cubed3
Two of the main criticisms aimed at both the Advance Wars and Fire Emblem series (both created by IS) are that the graphical level is not as high as it should be and that nothing much seems to change between versions. Now, coming off the back of the last
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Electric Playground
In my opinion, this is the best game available for the Nintendo DS and one of the best strategy games of its generation. A must have for any DS owner and if you don't have a DS, this is a viable reason to get one.
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VGPub
The pinnacle not only of its series, but also of the current North American DS library. If you have even a passing interest in the strategy, genre it will suck you in. If you have never played a strategy game, this is a great series to jump into.
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DS-x2
Well there are a few upgrades to Advance Wars: Dual Strike, most noticeably is the Dual CO missions. Where you can pick from 2 CO's and power them both up. You can then use the "Tag Power", which allows you to execute both CO's Special Powers and control
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DS Advanced
Advance Wars is one of those series that we – American gamers – haven’t really been familiar with, partially because until 2001, the series was Japanese-exclusive. Nintendo was nice enough to finally bring the series over, and – as anyone who’s
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Gaming Target
Germany and the Black Hole Army are very similar in a number of ways. For starters, both are very efficient at building large empires, celebrating said empire by throwing a world war, and promptly losing it all. While modern day Germany has learned it's
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DarkZero
Those who have played any of the AW titles over that past few years will no doubt feel right at home once you boot up the game on your DS. Everything about the game feels very familiar, the layout of the menus, the distinct graphics, the layout of the
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My Gamer
The number of unlockables is overwhelming. It will take days upon days of gameplay time to unlock everything this game has to offer.
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Worth Playing
Sugarcoated StrategyFor gamers of a certain breed, "turn-based" is synonymous with "no visceral thrills." No matter how rich the specific genre possibilities may be epic role-playing battles, grids of terrain expertly designed for strategic maneuve
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The New York Times
once. While you lead troops on the main front, a second battle plays out. You can simply send troops to the second front while letting a game-controlled commander call the shots, or you can take control of both fronts: a tricky undertaking akin to playing
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N-Insanity
I’m still amazed at how full that tiny little DS card is full of information. I still haven’t even explained the extra modes.
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GameSpot
Advance Wars is back and better than ever in this incredibly fun and rewarding strategy game.
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NZGamer
Needless to say it was a sleeper hit, and spurred by the success Nintendo quickly gave Intelligent Systems the green light to design a sequel. Unfortunately, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising for Game Boy Advance was mostly a rehash of its predecessor.
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Nintendojo
An excellent game and a great value, but not perfect. It has many improvements, but one or two of the new features cancel out some of the strides forward.
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Armchair Empire
Dual Strike does just about everything right – in fact, the only thing I can really complain about is that it sucked up (well, currently still sucking-up) huge blocks of my time.
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Plain Games
Dual Strike utilizes many of the unique aspects of the DS system. The player can use either the stylus or D-pad and buttons to control the game, with no option changing needed. The upper screen is used to display unit and terrain information or can be
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Sydney Morning Herald
are so many variables that the campaign mode against cunning computer-controlled rivals feels like an extended tutorial, even for experts. You can also have a blast battling friends or creating customised battlefields to swap. A wonderful puzzle-style sur
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NintendoWorldReport
Cheat Code Central
It's the epitome of turn based strategy games. I've loved AW since it appeared out of left field on the GBA and Duel Strike knocks it out of the park on the DS.
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WHAM! Gaming
wireless tech (running off of just one game card, too), though these epic confrontations can drag on for hours. Now, if only they could get Quentin Tarantino in to rewrite the dialogue. "You know what they call a heavy tank in France? A tank royale!" Or
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GameBrink
The game has great gameplay, good graphics, nice controls using the DSs touch-screen, it has great new units, and it's just plain fun.
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Jive Magazine
Advance Wars is a tactical turn-based strategy game, similar to Disgaea or Final Fantasy Tactics. Instead of individual characters with various statistics and weapons, you are given units to command on a battlefield as Commanding Officer (CO). The entire
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Planet Gamecube
Survival mode presents you with a certain number of levels and a limited amount of time, turns or money in which to play through them. These three types of challenges require different skills from the player. When playing the money challenge for example,
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GameSpy
Nintendo's surprisingly popular
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Games are Fun
As you know, I was a big fan of Advance Wars 2, and this of course makes Dual Strike better in the fact that I get to enjoy playing with the same characters that made the universe Nintendo set up so lovable. However, don't let this scare those of you
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Extreme Gamer
A one of kind strategy war game that brings the cute into the battlefield.
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1UP
A goldmine of tactical riches. The gameplay is fast (once you've dribbled past the Teen Beat dialogue) and the game looks sharp.
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Yahoo! Games
The armies of Orange Star, Yellow Comet, and the rest of the Macro Lucky-Charms alliance are once again squaring off with the Black Hole Army -- mysteriously arisen from the ass-kicking they got in the last game -- now stronger and weirder than ever.
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GameZone
I have another confession to make; I never played Advance Wars on the GBA. Once again I have exposed my nightmares by admitting to you, our loyal GameZone readers, just how behind I am in times with certain games.
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Eurogamer
Being yet another game to shoehorn a DS-related subtitle into its name, Advance Wars: Dual Strike once again sets out to prove that two screens are, indeed, better than one. But is it really the great, er, Advance we're all hoping for, or another dead-ey
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IGN
The GBA series hops off one handheld and onto another. How's the transition? Our full review.
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Games Radar
Tack onto all this a robust soundtrack, a comprehensive level editor and a war room filled with new maps and unlockable features and you’ve found one of the longest, most rewarding DS games out there. Put this online and it'd be damn near perfect.
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N-Europe
Without a doubt the finest DS game in existence to date. Buy it, play it, lose days, weeks, even months of your life to it; and the best bit? You won't want them back.
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Pro-G
Sure, I knew Advance Wars: Dual Strike was a turn-based strategy. Sure, I knew that the franchise was very highly regarded. Sure, I knew that it was one of the most eagerly awaited titles on the DS this year. I simply wasn't expecting it to be quite this
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