Advance Wars: Dual Strike: Let down, or Incredible? Well, to tell you the truth, it honestly caught me off guard.

User Rating: 9.2 | Advance Wars: Dual Strike DS
Advance Wars: Dual Strike has a lot of resemblance to the first two of the trilogy. Lets list a couple. The game play is the same, graphics are a little better, and the weapons are about the same with a couple new units like the Megatank; and, you guessed it, Black Hole is once again trying to take over another big chunk of land.

So what makes this game so much fun?

I bought the game because my brother insisted on it. He already had the game and was wildly crazed with it. So I took a shot, bought the game and popped it in. I assumed that it was going to just be a time consuming tactical based game based on its predecessor, and would have yet another set of “bad guys” that, as said before, would try to take over the world.

I had the story set pretty much to par and was somewhat correct on the game play, but I never in my wildest dreams would’ve thought that it would be such an incredibly engrossing game. I literally did not put the game down for four hours after I bought it. After I had beat the first 6 levels, I had to put it down. I checked the clock and it was 2 A.M. I went to bed

The next morning my mom had to pry me from my DS and make me get out of bed, it was 1:30 in the afternoon.

The reason it’s so good is because of its hypnotic game play. The game itself is just really good because of the story. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who didn’t play the first one and/or the second one, only because you have to have some understanding of the game before you play it because of its difficulty level.

Over all, Dual Strike is a really great game and worth any penny. But if you do choose to buy it before you play any of the other games, you don’t need the game book.

I rate it a 9.2/10