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Duration: 01:19 minutes Upload Time: 2007-11-22 00:27:47 User: jamick99 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: Interview by Kotaku(.)com 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. |
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| Chilesk8ter ::: Favorites 2007-12-31 00:47:19 usually Advance Wars games are great... exept for music... sounds like atari lol, but is DS, miracles are possible on ur touchscreeen ;) __________________________________________________ | |
| jamick99 ::: Favorites 2007-12-31 00:36:36 Thanks, its the music on the video. Hopefully its the same music in the game. I hope so. __________________________________________________ | |
| Chilesk8ter ::: Favorites 2007-12-30 19:49:57 love the music __________________________________________________ | |
| jamick99 ::: Favorites 2007-12-29 22:04:08 You sound like your ready for a change of pace. AWSOME! __________________________________________________ | |
| coaxanearwig ::: Favorites 2007-12-29 20:58:07 I'm glad they've cleared the roster... in terms of actual play, the entire enemy team of DS was pretty poor - except for maybe Lash and Adder -- Hawke's a cool character but a poor CO, so badly balanced. Get rid of all the useless filler and go back to distinct, strategic styles. bring it on! __________________________________________________ | |
| coaxanearwig ::: Favorites 2007-12-29 20:53:23 how does a machine look gay you illiterate tard...? back to the crib with you __________________________________________________ | |
| Phoenix507 ::: Favorites 2007-12-25 16:23:24 Oh, and Sasha. :( __________________________________________________ | |
| Phoenix507 ::: Favorites 2007-12-25 16:14:05 RIP, Lash and Sonya...:( Still, I think this'll be good. :) __________________________________________________ | |
| Th1zzM0NK3y ::: Favorites 2007-12-23 19:24:45 the units look gay in combat __________________________________________________ | |
| muffinmad ::: Favorites 2007-12-23 14:21:46 THAT OLD GUY WITH THE CHAIR!! __________________________________________________ | |
| kbbanimator ::: Favorites 2007-12-20 20:40:06 looks sick. going to be serious, i still like the series, but the problem is, you have to look past the game's kiddyish appearence to see the game's true glory. Now when I show this to my friends, they'll actually give this version a try. __________________________________________________ | |
| jamick99 ::: Favorites 2007-12-19 19:36:03 COLIN!! __________________________________________________ | |
| muffinmad ::: Favorites 2007-12-19 13:08:58 i'll miss hawke:( __________________________________________________ | |
| jamick99 ::: Favorites 2007-12-18 19:33:18 Alright then. __________________________________________________ | |
| ge2 ::: Favorites 2007-12-18 15:31:39 Just sayin'. If it was DS2, then it'd probably have the old COs, which it doesn't. I just don't want people to get confused. __________________________________________________ | |
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