New Advance Wars Gets Name, Street Date
Nintendo plans to bring Advance Wars: Days of Ruin to the DS in
January.

October 12, 2007 - The latest installment in the Advance Wars series
of military strategy games is set for a Jan. 21 release date in the
United States.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for the Nintendo DS is the latest in the
turn-based strategy series that started on the Game Boy Advance and
moved to the DS with Advance Wars: Dual Strike.

First announced at E3 2007, the upcoming sequel to Dual Strike was
shown at the Micromania Games Show in Paris earlier this month.


http://ds.ign.com/articles/827/827002p1.html




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Intelligent Systems has reinvented Advance Wars. They're stripped it
to the bone, giving it a mature bent that borders now on dark,
brooding and violent. Gone are long-standing Commanding Officers Andy,
Sami, Max, and Eagle. Gone are Orange Star and Blue Moon. Gone are a
series of precocious teens and sassy officers in capri pants ordering
thousands of units to their doom, ultimately ending in a root beer
party commemorating the dead. Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is a post-
apocalyptic war game that is expected to get a T-rating, so leave your
soda at the door.

The story of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is one of a world in chaos
following a cataclysmic meteor storm that leaves 90 percent of the
population dead. The scattered survivors live in a diseased, war-torn
world controlled by roving bandits and power-hungry warlords. The tone
is muted, the dialogue dreary, the characters devoid of smiles.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin also takes the series back a step, gameplay-
wise. The Dual Strike CO powers from the previous Nintendo DS Advance
Wars are gone, and CO powers in general are said to have been toned
down. The tides of war won't turn so easily this time.

Also absent from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin are dual screen battles,
with maps and information occupying the top, gameplay shown in the
bottom.

Days of Ruin does add some new units to the series, though, bringing a
Motorbike unit to the list of infantry units. Motorbikes can capture
buildings and factories like other infantry, but they have better
range and better firepower. A new Flare unit, incapable of attacks
also joins the ranks, cutting through the fog of war-now a permanent
dust cloud kicked up by meteorites. The Duster, a new air unit that
wasn't available for hands-on play is also promised for the final
version.

Actually playing Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is much speedier than its
Nintendo DS predecessor. The team has refined the interface so issuing
orders takes fewer steps, resulting in quicker battles. The game's
assets have been completely redone, giving the maps and enactments of
your firefights a new look.

While our play time with Advance Wars: Days of Ruin was limited to
only a trio of chapters, we were introduced to many of the game's
characters. Leading man Will replaces Andy and Jake, with tactician
Lin, a morose female officer, his companion. Captain Brenner, a
"grizzled war veteran", leads the Independent Legion to which Will and
Lin belong.

Most of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin's gameplay remains tried and true,
it's simply boiled down to the core formula. Players of previous
Advance Wars games may initially be unsettled by the frequent
references to murder, pillaging and destruction-there's even a line
from a barbarian named The Beast who wants more ears to add to his ear
necklace-but the storyline feels more engaging than the light-hearted
fare of games past.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin boasts a feature set that should have fans
excited. Wi-fi multiplayer battles over the Nintendo Wi-fi Connection
are finally here, bringing voice chat with them. Also coming is the
tentatively titled Map Center making map creation and sharing a
worldwide affair. Players can take their map designs, upload them, and
rate and download others via the Map Center adding hundreds of maps to
the 170 already included.

It may be a big change, but Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is a welcome
addition to the series and one that should breathe new life into the
game.


http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo-ds/advance-wars-days-of-ruin-hands-on-impressions-310918.php


AW: DoR discussion forum:
http://www.advancewarsnet.com/forums/index.php?showforum=33

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2007 21:11:51 -0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
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>New Advance Wars Gets Name, Street Date
>Nintendo plans to bring Advance Wars: Days of Ruin to the DS in
>January.

Why have you posted this old news to a non-relevant group?

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:11:51 +0100, Herzog Zwei wrote
(in article ):

> New Advance Wars Gets Name, Street Date
> Nintendo plans to bring Advance Wars: Days of Ruin to the DS in
> January.
> 

Want.


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