The editor is chock-full of terrain, unit, and battle-condition choices and ensures that even the most stalwart map designer will have free reign over his or her imagination. As you advance in the single-player campaign, your progress is graded and you're rewarded with AW coins, which you can later spend in the battle-maps store to purchase additional maps and COs for the game's versus, war room, and multi-cartridge link modes.Īs if the 150 different maps in the game's multiplayer and single-player modes weren't enough, you can also create, save, and trade your own maps using the design-maps option. After you complete a mission, you can replay it in the game's war room, or you can track statistics, such as wins, losses, and rank, in the stats area. In all, there are 30 potential missions to play and eight commanding officers (COs) to control. The single-player campaign offers a nonlinear quest through all four nations of Alara, a war-torn continent. To experience a full-featured multiplayer game, all four players must purchase their own copy of the game, or they must all play on a single system using the versus mode.Īfter you get your feet wet in field training, five additional menu choices become available: campaign, war room, stats, battle maps, and design maps. Due to system-memory limitations, the single-cartridge link-cable option is merely a watered-down version of the overall game, with a randomly generated map and each player possessing only seven units.
The versus mode allows four-player competition with only a single cartridge on the same system, while the link mode enables both single-cartridge and multi-cartridge multiplayer options. Until you complete this mode, only the versus mode and link mode options are available from the main menu. The game opens with a diverse 14-mission field training exercise, which delves into all aspects of the game, including deployment, unit development, movement range, and fog-of-war navigation. It's been an excruciating wait, but the news is good: Advance Wars is both impressive and addictive.ĭeveloped by Intelligent Systems, Advance Wars thrusts you into the role of a military advisor in the Orange Star army. In fact, other than Sacnoth's totally cool UK release of Faselei! for the NeoGeo Pocket Color, Nintendo's Advance Wars for the Game Boy Advance is the only strategy sim to make its way to a handheld in English within the last four years. Turn-based military strategy sims aren't a well-represented genre in the handheld market.
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