Advance Wars Game Boy Advance
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92

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9.0

Universal acclaim- based on 44 Ratings

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  • Summary: The battle lines have been drawn, and an elite group of sly strategists are massing troops at your borders. You'll have to command ground, air and naval forces if you hope to survive the coming wars, and it won't be easy. With 114 maps to battle on and both Single-Pak and Multi-Pak link modes, Advance Wars brings turn-based strategy to a depth never before seen on a handheld!… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Into Liquid Sky
    100
    One of the best aspects of Advance Wars is the sheer amount of things you can do. If you choose not to play the Campaign mode, you can still fight and earn battlefields in the War Room, or can get friends together and play multiplayer on either one GBA or link up to four GBAs at one time.
  2. Yahoo! Games
    100
    Handheld game or not, the depth and complexity of Advance Wars is astonishing.
  3. GBA Central
    100
    From trying to unlock every CO to buying all the War Room and Vs. maps to trying to earn the best rank possible, there are enough features in this game to make three games. Advance Wars is pretty much perfect in every category.
  4. Games Radar
    92
    Frighteningly addictive.
  5. Nintendophiles
    90
    The replay value is great and this game will last forever.
  6. Gamer.tv
    90
    In terms of sheer depth and pure gameplay, there really is nothing else on the GBA to touch Advance Wars.
  7. Electronic Gaming Monthly
    73
    I never had so much fun NOT playing a game. You see, whether you share one GBA or link several up, you don't get to do anything when it's not your turn. [Oct 2001, p.156]
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  1. Positive: 22 out of 23
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  1. JamesD.
    Mar 18, 2003
    10
    Really cool game. I have been playing strategy games since the C64 days and this is one of the most addictive I have ever seen. The graphics are a plaesent change of pace from the "over the top" realism seen in some other recent offerings. Kudos to Nintendo on a job done well once again!!… Expand
  2. [Anonymous]
    Sep 4, 2002
    10
    A very good game.
  3. JoeT.
    Aug 14, 2007
    10
    A highly addictive, yet extremely complex game for the GBA. This game perfectly fits the mold of 'easy to learn, hard to master'.
  4. KevinG.
    Apr 30, 2004
    10
    A great game that keeps you on your toes.
  5. AndrewD.
    Oct 6, 2005
    10
    I think this game was amazing i just wonder why they stopped making it i was gunna buy it..... but then i couldnt find any.
  6. RobertT.
    Mar 24, 2003
    10
    Best war game since starcraft.
  7. Char
    Jul 25, 2002
    5
    A moderate war game but it lacks the intensity of other GBA war games like Zone of the Enders.

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