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Advance Wars: Days of Ruin DS
  • Publisher: Nintendo
  • Release Date: Jan 21, 2008
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Metascore
86 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 55 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

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  • Summary: (Also known as "Advance Wars: Dark Conflict" in the UK/EU) After a cataclysmic meteor strike exterminates 90% of the population, the survivors must battle barbarians, disease, and strongmen who seek only to secure their own power. Advance Wars has been reinvented. Set amidst a world in chaos and featuring new characters and settings, a gritty look, an engaging storyline, and online Wi-Fi battles and map trading. Try you hand with new COs and units, realistic graphics, and a new environment. Use Nintendo WiFi Connection and battle against a friend halfway across the world, or use the map editor to create, trade and battle on your own custom maps. [Nintendo]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. n-Revolution Magazine UK
    94
    A couple of options and a decent script away from being the best strategy game ever made on any format. [Issue#20, p.84]
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  2. Nintendo Gamer
    93
    Advance Wars: Dark Conflict is outrageously good, taking a simple formula and tuning it to perfection. This is a console-defining game.
  3. Gamervision
    70
    If you're a fan of turn-based strategy, don't let my little multiplayer rant deter you from picking up this game; it's definitely a fun and interesting title, especially if you're actually going to utilize the multiplayer modes.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 33
  3. Negative: 2 out of 33
  1. JamesK
    10
    Soooooo good, amazing in every way. These are exactly the kind of gameplay changes that I was desperate for in AW 2 and 3, but now they've done it in an awesome post-apocalyptic setting.… Expand
    • 2 of 3 users said yes
  2. AlexB.
    5
    Another example of the now all too familiar decision to cull so much of what was brilliant about a previous release, then say "but it's got multiplayer" as some cheap excuse for a lack of ideas and a lack of effort. it's half the game dual strike is, less CO's, less modes, less options. I've racked 80 hours on dual strike, yet there is nothing here to keep me beyond the campaign. For those of us without the necessary online access, a crushing, crushing disappointment.… Expand
    • 2 of 4 users said yes
  3. MarkF
    4
    I ask you, Is this TRULY advance wars? advance wars was a bright, cutesy, colourful turn based strategies with quirky characters and wierd and wonderful units to command. This has the same gameplay changed slightly (which makes it worse in my opinion) and puts everything in a dreary brown/grey outlook. Good gameplay, but the look of the game is a disappointment… Expand
    • 0 of 6 users said yes

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