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Wish I could write a review of game -- 3 weeks and no ship

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 21
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Placed an order for this game Jan 8, 2004 with a gift certificate I got for Christmas -- listed as shipping in 1-2 days. Gamestop.com was listed as provider, and they had it in stock to ship w/in 24hrs (they still do and have had in stock during this entire period). It's now Jan 27th, and the game still hasn't shipped. Repeated emails to customer service have yielded nothing but impersonal form letters that say nothing.

If you want to play this game soon, don't buy it at Amazon.com -- go into any one of BestBuy, Target, Walmart, CompUSA, etc. which all have this game on their shelves right now!

Delays w/ amazon seem to be getting worse -- at least they have gift certificates to snare you with! Would have given 0 stars, but wasn't an option.

Science-Fiction + War Tactics = Blah

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 51
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The original, Advance Wars, was a great 5 star game that combined strategy and a fun storyline to create a great game. The downfall of this game was adding science-fiction. The new neo-tank looks like a meteor with a gun and the new COs are really quite creepy. The added pipeline feature makes no sense, why should you have to control one section of pipeline to cross? Last, after all the reviews and coverages I've read about this game the only new unit is the horrible neo-tank. That is why it deserves a 2.

Hard beyong your wildest imagination

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS TOO DAMN HARD! Or maybe it's because I'm not very good at strategy games like these. Anywho this game is very challenging. I bought this game and I thought this would be a bad-ass game right? Wrong! The campaignhs are extremely diffcult to pass and I just barely beat the first level of blue moon island. The only things that I like about this game are the scenario builder and the multi-player mode. If you like strategy games buy this. If not steer clear of it.

Should be a Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 44
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Alright, let's have a history lesson. The first Advance Wars was a great game, if I should say so myself. It was both fun and addictive. If you don't believe me, go ahead and read the reviews that other people gave Advance Wars. There's a reason why so many people gave Advance Wars such a high rating: it gave a great sense of playing a real war while keeping it so that it isn't too violent, as well as being an educational video game. Quite an impressive break from all those shooters that have been emerging to the video game market. So, if Nintendo is adding on more details to the Advance Wars engine that's proven to provide stellar gameplay, what kind of cons could there be? Nintendo's making Advance Wars BETTER than ever, with more units, COs, terrain, and much more. Therefore, it's a no brainer; this game will be a good continuation to Advance Wars. I'm definately going to get this game as soon as it comes out!

What, no cannons?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, I'd like to say that, in MOST aspects, this game is FAR better than the first one. 8 new COs with great music for each, excellent map-screen graphics, less linear campaign, and a new unit make this game exceedingly fun. Basically, it's much more fun than the first. My gripe, however, comes with the map editor.

If you're like myself, you love toying around with the Map Editor in AW and AW2. You like setting up Campaign-like maps that provide quite the challenge. When I heard about the introductions of 4-way laser cannons, long-range cannons and short-range minicannons, impervious walls, missile silos, and unstoppable Death Rays, I thought what most people would think: Sweeeeet. I can use these in the map editor!

Unfortunately, it doesn't work this way. The pipelines (walls) and missile silos are the only terrains the player can take advantage of. No cannons, lasers, or death rays for you, only for the computer and only in Campaign Mode. You can blow these things up, but not capture them. I was looking forward to this, in addition to placing Black Hole units, which explains the dinged star.

Otherwise, though, this game is GREAT. BUY IT!

Pretty Good but Gets too hard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really loved this game when I first started and would have given it five stars. The gameplay is pretty flawless and it is very easy to pick up yet difficult to master. The only quarrells I have with it are that the difficulty gets insanely high in the later levels. This means that there is only one way to win a level usually and if you make on small mistake the whole scenario comes crashing down on you. I guess I would say that the later levels don't offer enough of a free form gameplay experience.

A comment about the game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have only played one map (in the War Room) so far, but I think I should share with would-be-buyers (who aren't used to this kind of game) what bothered me the most.

---Every time you want to save with a different map setup in the "war room", you will need to erase your previous game.

Although, you can save in the 'versus', save in the 'war room' and in the 'story' independently of each other.

--You can end up in a stale mate situation while playing against the computer.

I know this because for the last 3 hours I have been playing on a map where there are two islands and a neck of land connecting them. On this neck, my battleships have been bombarding any expensive computer units crazy enough to drive on it, and all of my units that I've tried to advance on the neck were wiped out by the computers rocket artillery. Meaning myself and the computer are both smart enough not to advance our artillery into harms way [because I tried it once, and the computer's rocket artillery wiped out one of my battleships], while we're too cautious to do anything disasterous, and we are trying painstakingly to advace our units on the neck--which doesn't do either of us much good.

Translation: stalemates like you never believed were possible can happen in this game. Like I've said, I only played one map, but that one map proves that stale mates can happen in this game and that they take a long time to solve.

If you don't like stalemate situations, then this game may not be for you. However, I only played one map so far, and this game gives a strong sense of WW2 type of strategy and a WW2 feel to it, even though helicopters are in the game. I thought the Typhoon Power would help the computer, and my Repair Power would help me, but we're still both stuck in a dead lock. So I just ended the game out of boredom. Also, you can only attack in 4 directions in a melee, not in 8.

I'm pretty sure that the Virtual Kasporov game that I've ordered will be a lot better than this, since atleast in chess you wont get into a never-ending tie.

But I've only played one map so far so I can't speak of its total virtues just yet. One good part about the game, is that you can learn the playing controls fairly easily. It was easy to just jump into the game and start playing, and I never did play the first Advanced Wars before.

Another good thing about this game, is that if you have time to spend waiting, this is the game to play to allow that time to go by fast.

I've decided to revise this post because I've played several other scenarios of AW2, and I've come to think of it as an excellent game to play. In fact, I like it better than my Virtual Kasparov, although I don't consider VK a bad game.

---The main reason AW2 is so good is because I've recently discovered that you can play (in the versus mode) against more than one computer player, and you can set up allies for the computer or for yourself, creating a whole series of different map variations.

I just want to add that playing with only one cartridge during a linkup makes for a very sad style of gameplay. There are basically no graphics in this type of two player configuration. And although you might get bored of the fighting graphics after a while, withought them the game play is just terrible.

this game is extremly good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: September 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Behold!You have just laid your eys on the best game in Gameboy history!This game has so many extras to it it's mind blowing.The game itself is extreamly well done.The graphics are allmost perfect.This game can get boring at times ,but it is still a gerat game.

How will you encourage your parents?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well. The game is great. THe first one is addictive. But if you are young well, is your parent caring for you not to get violent games? If you look at the cover you see Nami holding a bazooka. Is that not violent enough for you? Well here is how to encouage them: First, tell them that you enjoy this game. Second, look at the rating, it is E, which means it is recomended for ages 6+, most of you are. Third, tell them you will pay for it (optional) Fourth, express the popularity of the game Fifth, show them the game(use someone's else or sumthing) Last: If they didn't get through all of that then beg and forget it...

BEST PARTY GAME!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I hated Advanced Wars 1. But I bought 2 and was Amazed. They took all the original flaws and fixed them. You now have a second CO Power called Super Power, which is Your normal power x2. Another Addition is New Weapons, including Nukes, and Neo Tanks(They look like piggy banks) A new team,(black hole) and a ton of new characters. Also, you can now change characters outfits. I loved to make olaf look like santa.

I will admit, they didnt make the campaign any better. it still sucks. Also, to unlock other maps, CO's, you have to beat areas on campaign mode, and then you have to go out and buy them. This sucks.

Where this game rawks, is the multyplayer. This is the best Party game ever. No links requiered. you and up to 4 freinds pass around the GBA. But whats really awesome is if you play it on the GBA player for the GC with a wave bird contronlor. Its ten times kewler and you just pass around the wavebird, and u can watch wat ur oponents do as they do it, where as if u were on GBA, you would have to crowd around and squint, and you would really only see what happened when ur turn starts.

All and All. Advanced wars is awesome, and one of the best multyplayer titles on the gba.
I give it a 5 out of 5.

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