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WOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the BEST GBA game!!! I have an X-box wiht 10 new games but I am not playing it... Insted I am addicted to AW! This game is a hard core strat game ,but is so good people who hate strat games will love it! + this game is endless! Best investment for GBA!

Advance Wars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Advance wars is a solid game for those who are interested in the army. This game is great because of all the different modes of play. My personal favorite mode is the war room mode because you can build units and face opponents with great power.

Vs. mode is also good because you can play up to 4 players on 1 GBA. A link cable is not needed. Everyone you face is a challenging, making this game tough.

Graphics need a little work, though. If they were better, The game would be out of this world!!!

You can also buy places to fight in by earning coins. You get coins by winning battles and getting a good rank.

This game is great! If there is one game you should get for your Game Boy Advance, this is the one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canýt stop. . .playing. . .help. . .me. . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Does one have to really wonder why this game imprisons lives? It rouses a fixation, depriving sleep and razing all signs of the munchies. Advance Wars is a portable cart aimed as a tactical knock off and effectively whops the target. Nintendo yanks out a total hit with a chronic twist. Their multiplayer and extremely balanced Turn-Based combat has players coming back for more and more. The replay value on this life-draining bastard is the forerunner of its class. Either played during sessions in school, on the passenger side, with a group of aspiring Commanding Officers, or accompanied with a pungent beverage in solitude, Advance Wars scores sky-high.

Igniting in robust complexity, once the battle intricacies are soaked into your instinct the game goes ka-boom! Lodge fortitude, play through it and soon you'll see why so many have fallen for this sweet sucker. Before the true mayhem crops up, you are launched into guided exercises. Avoiding the crash course, newbies will acquire the essential arts for the GBA's first warfare. Subsequent to the training missions, the player should be ready for the maximized Campaign Mode. Centered on Turn-Based battle, the essential goal throughout the game is taking out Commanding Officers or seizing their command centers. Wrangled on land, air, and sea, the amazing part of the game is the perfectly balanced units. All 18, outfitted with certain stamina points, armor, movement, attack range, and accuracy, are regularly used and maintain a purpose on the frontlines. The infantry units, while naturally deleted off the screen, are the only ones who can annex cities that are used to accrue units. One's surroundings (mountains, forest, reefs, highways, etc.) accomplish tactical implements as well as defense, subterfuge, or greater mobility. Operations in the Campaign Mode are ranked depending on the players speed and technique. AW coins, used to purchase extra maps, are awarded upon the player's performance. Moneyed with a winning single-player campaign, and the option to directly replay all the missions, Advance Wars can stand alone as a standalone buffet. Things just take-off with its cargo of customization traits and its several other modes. But the unfeigned incentive to protectively hold onto the GBA is the multiplayer mode. Enabling an up-to-four-player mode and trade with customized maps, Advance Wars coaxes as a spotless multiplayer pleasure.

They're pixilated and they may be the state of primitive cartoon animation, but looks can deceive, for Advance Wars doesn't behave as it appears. A downright, every bit of tactical thinking game, the graphics are wonderful except for the overly childish atmosphere. Tidy and viewed overhead on a large battlefield, the tiny GBA screen shines with clear-sailing sight. The animated, no-frills cutscenes shown when units strike each other are nice for the first 30 minutes, but swamps the game in the 31st minute. Thank you Nintendo for the option to deactivate them. With feisty visuals and appropriately incorporated audio, you cannot go wrong with the quality.

When confined into detention, jaded to death, or suffering from the gritted-teeth addiction, Advance Wars somehow materializes into my head and mysteriously onto my palms. Levels are designed so intelligently that the action is continuously ardent, and sometimes human competition can get pretty gripping with all the sticky sweat-works. Greatly composed, unproblematic when learnt, and every bit full of tactical grandeur, this baby is done in superiority over all others. Its solo-player playability and its multiplayer bonanza earns its strips and undying longevity. Boil everything down and what you catch is a grand slam and myself roaring in chock-full acclaim.

Pleasant Suprise for the Patient

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would just like to say that I am a big fan of strategy games. Although I have never touched Command & Conquer (there goes my credibility as a strategy expert) I have played games like Starcraft and Age Of Empires 2 to the limit. Now you can see why me and my other intelligent friends were looking forward to this promising handheld strategy game. I was suprised by the amount of good games at the GBA launch and Advance Wars was the icing on the cake. My friend purchased the game and fresh out of the box, him, 2 other friends and I all sat down to play the game. I was aware that the game was turn based, but I just wanted to see how the game turned out. My friends and I were first put of in the multiplayer by the waiting. and the waiting. and oh did I mention the waiting? It was good we didn't turn it off. Most people who play this game multiplayer first without knowing what they are doing will be put off immediately because this game requires a little more knowhow that Pokemon or Zelda. With Hp Stats, Ammo, Terrain effects, and more we quickly began moving our units quickly so we could get to combat. The Fog Of War effect devilishly limits your units movement (ecspecially infantry) but you won't care. Once you are in combat you can set traps for your enemy (get him to move where two units wait to put his units out) and gang up on him (a friend and I had a great time double teaming my other gloating friend) and the game becomes a sort of like a very heated chess match, only with eye candy, four people,and something that will keep non-nerds tense and nervous about what this guy or that guy will do to your units during his turn. No matter what you hear this is the sole best handheld strategy game released. Anyone who can wait a minute or two with friends for their turn will enjoy this game. Just play it with people who don't take a while to make their moves. The one player mode is also excellent. In One player there are battle animations in combat that are done suberbly and often hillarious (it is just funny to watch 3 guys of your mechanized infantry get blown away by enemy tanks). I have only scratched the surface of the game and I could go on and on like I do with people at school (I'm a nerd) but I figure if your still reading this, I should shut up anyway.
The bottom line is.....
This is the military strategy version of chess with multiplayer, a much more traditional yet still fun one player mode, and anyone with the patience to wait for their friends to move should have it.

Tetris...on Crack!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hey, I'm the same guy who had the review on Fotress as "Tetris on Crack." And I'm glad 1 out of 5 people found the review helpful...glad I could help. Well, I've learned my lesson from giving vague descriptions and here's what I think of Advance Wars: Awesome! Buy it today!

Advance Wars-the best game for advance ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: July 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The first time I herd of Advance Wars I thought nothing of it. But after seeing my friends play it I boughtit right away. I`ll tell you that the game is a must own for a serious gamer. Alot of Strategy and thinking is involved.(turn of the games music for better concintration) A good game to compare this to is Risk tm. you command your troops to move around and capture the enemy`s base. For you violonce haters, this game is perfect! Well... the tanks do blow up, but there is no gore or blood anywhere. My Advice- MUST BY

A war game without blood

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You are probally wondering how can that be? I will tell you. This game is a taking turn game.(Like checkers) When you move all of you guys you want to move, then you hit the start key and press end, and it is the other person's turn. Now about that no blood I am not kiding, let me explain what the battle screen looks like, when a battle begins it will show both of the oppoents and then show the attacker attacking, but when it fires the people just either blow away. They don't show suff like blood and guts which I think is good.
Well I hope this review is ok.

Advance Wars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Advance Wars is a great game. Its addictive, fun, and challenging. I'd say this is one of the best games for Gameboy Advance so far. I hope they come out with a sequel.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say about advance wars, is, its going to be AWESOME! I mean a war strategy game on a handheld!?!??!!?!? oh ya! with a fairly long campaign mode and 144 different maps, the replay is INFINITE! Up to 3 of your homies hookin up and playin with ya! oh ya! Also the scenerio editor lets you make your own maps! adding even more replay! Then after all that go trade your maps with your friends maps! I say go Nintendo! Im going and getting me a copy A.S.A.P. and you should too!

Excellent! Very fun and addicting game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it first came out. It rules! The only drawback is the multiplayer option. The games can be extremely long and there is no way to save. Other than that, this is one of the best games I have played for GBA. It is very addicting.

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