An amazing game that has brought back my DS to life!

User Rating: 9.5 | Advance Wars: Days of Ruin DS
Advance Wars Days of Ruin for the DS

Gameplay 10/10 x3
Sound 10/10 x2
Graphics 9/10 x2
Storyline 8/10 x2
Extra's and Replay Value 10/10 x1

This game for a stratagy game fan will blow you away and other players will get an amazing ride. This game allows you to control an army with your commander and each commander has there own special power ups along with units that also have there strengths and weaknesses. The game offers ships,tanks,bombers and plenty more units from sky to sea to land. The games unique gameplay makes it interesting to stratagy rpgs as you can't win with per power. Well of course you can if you overwhelm the enemy in odds, but all your units have the same stats making it almost always a fair battle. Storyline offers a rather basic story, but enjoyable none the less with crazy bad guys who really need brains or some sanity. Still who can't say a little girl who lets mr.bear decide who to kill isn't fun lol. Graphics are very sharp on the ds and the sprites are also solid. The only minor default would have to be lack of emotions of characters, seeing the same sprite 90% of the time with no voices either makes it kinda boring, or at least not as interesting. As I just said this game offers 0% voice overs. Thats kinda not a surprise since most ds games don't but it makes up for it with some killer music, as each commander as there own soundtrack when its there turn. The games main storyline is 26 maps long, but outside the story offers 100+ maps to use and theres more you can make your OWN maps. The game also offers wi-fi, but don't expect to get a challange from it as people have no guts or something as they surrender within 10 days of the battle 90% of the time and its really a pain in the butt, considering theres no real section showing how many wins or loses you got so a surrender doesn't feel like a win and you get nothing from it either or at least I havn't seen anything from it anyway. So I say stick to the cpu, as there not that predictable and are rather smart compared to the brain deads on wi-fi it seems. This game brought me back to my DS from collecting a life of dust since November and its even got me a bit interested in the system again. If Nintendo can get more games out like this and less garbage like the ds likes to offer it may yet see more play time and more games coming from my collection. Enjoy this game its a blast!

Overall- 94/100 or 9.5 Gamespot