Being at war has never been so much fun.
In this game the characters are the ones already shown in the previous games plus a couple of more (like Jake one of the best young rookie strategiest in the army). In total there are like 40 more or less.
So basically in the game you can play the campaign mode, in which you follow a bunch of missions where the single and simple objective is to beat the enemy. There are two types of difficulties normal and hard. In normal campaign you have to follow the missions with a given character but in hard campaign you have the ability to choose whatever character you wish.
Next we have war room. In this mode you are given different maps (which you have to buy) in which you have to bet an assign character. This mode is really fun but is also really hard. With the L and R bottons you can choose if you want to do a 1 vs 1 battle or a 1 vs 2 or even a 1 vs 3. With the pad you are able to choose if you want to use skill, use a partner or the type of experience you want to gain (people grow levels with experience and with experience comes skills).
After this mode we have versus mode. Here simple as the name says you can battle with a friend to see who's the better strategiest. Under versus we have the survival mode. In this mode the point is to choose from 3 types of survival: money, turn, or time. In money you are given a set amount of money and have to bet a couple of stages with that amount. no more no less. In turn you just have to beat the same amount of levels in a certain amount of turn. And last in time is the same with a time limit.
The last mode you have combat. This is one of the newest mode added to the game. In here you are given 20000 "dollars" and have to buy soldiers, recons, tanks, and artilleries. After that you battle with other characters but not by taking moves but moving around and shooting at your enemies units. In this mode there are 3 levels: normal, hard, and brutal. Well that's all for the gameplay, if you want to check the rest you just have to move the d-pad left or right and a new menu will appear. In here you can buy maps, check your medals, go wireless, check the sound, see the pictures you obtain in the game and you can design your own map, costumize your characters and set the background. Advance Wars: Dual Strike is a really exciting game and any person that like a strategy game and have a DS should definitely should go and get this one.