Advanced Wars Dual Strike or Days of Ruin? which one did you like most?

Dual Strike

Dual Strike hands down.

i'm just curious because many people are saying they liked Dual Strike a lot better, and that Days of Ruin wasn't as good. So in comparison, which Advanced Wars game did you like best - Advanced Wars: Dual Strike or Advanced Wars: Days of RuinJayesler12

Uhh actually, nearly everyone I've seen says that Days of Ruin is way better, and Dual Strike is horrible.

Wait.. first you say you like Dual strike and then you say its horrible... am i missing something?barney_calhoun_

He wasn't agreeing, he was pointing out something.

But I myself have heard that Dual Strike was better. But hey, if it's another Advance Wars game, can you really go wrong?

As you can see it's quite a toss up, and for me the choice is no easier to make. Both games have things that I really like about them, but I would have to say that in the end I enjoyed Dual Strike more. Sure, the dual screen battles were new, but not at all intriguing or even fun. More like a nuisance. In the end DS still has the fun factor on its side. Sure, some COs were overpowered, but I still really enjoyed their normal attributes such as +direct damage or +attack range for indirects. I felt that the COs were too limited in DoR which really made the COs feel too similar. I generally felt like never using a CO power because the CO boosts (and boosting zone increase from having a full/half gauge) were more beneficial. Considering that COs were a cornerstone of the AW series, the "dilution" of these COs has made the game considerably less fun. Another thing I really enjoyed about DS was the leveling aspect. Sure, some COs were already too powerful, but it was still lots of fun to see what kind of combinations you would choose for a given battle. It also gave you more reason to play the single player.

DoR definitely focused much more on the wifi aspect, and the single player portion is definitely hurting in my opinion. I don't understand why critics say that the campaign is harder, because I felt that it was easier (though I honestly haven't gone through the campaign on hard). No war room, no leveling, no challenge maps...they really took a lot out to add in the multiplayer. I enjoy DoRs new units as well as the modifications to old ones (run n gun battleships and seaplanes) and taking out neotanks was a good balancing move since they were definitely too good, but in the end I definitely feel less compelled to play DoR than I did DS. The most important part about a game is how fun it is, and DS wins in that category.

On one final note, I just wanted to say that the DS audio track was also much more enjoyable. DoR's metal theme was a little too much for me because many tracks sounded too similar. I liked DS's unique tracks for their COs and it really made it more pleasant on the ears than hearing similar heavy metal for every character as with DoR.

[QUOTE="Jayesler12"]i'm just curious because many people are saying they liked Dual Strike a lot better, and that Days of Ruin wasn't as good. So in comparison, which Advanced Wars game did you like best - Advanced Wars: Dual Strike or Advanced Wars: Days of Ruinsc_ajk29

Uhh actually, nearly everyone I've seen says that Days of Ruin is way better, and Dual Strike is horrible.

Nearly everyone you've seen? So like your group of 3 friends or something? Most EVERYONE, was saying that Dual Strike was better.

Tough choice but I would have to go with Days of Ruins since I like the dark atmosphere and the ability to mount your Co onto any vehicle, which has more strategy. I do miss the old catchy themes from Dual Strike though.

DANG 50-50.

anyway, i like Dual Strike, but there both awesome games.

Dual strike although both were good games. Dual strike just had so much more content than Days of ruin, it felt like a step back when I played Days of ruin, because of the lack of hard campaign, war room etc. Also liked the lighter tone a lot more, the series was better when it wasn't taking itself too seriously.

Only thing that I can say is much better in Days of ruin than in Dual strike is that there are no tag teams, but apart from that IMO dual strike is much better.

I like Days of Ruin. I do not have Dual Strike yet.DeafNYCPlayer

I've got both, but I like Dual Strike far more than Dark Conflict (/Days of Ruin) as it is much more accessible - I completed the original but found the sequel much more difficult. I also didn't like the changes they made to the vehicles. I wasn't exactly a huge fan of the story in the original, but I remember having to go through reams and reams of incredibly boring story in Days of Ruin. I do often like stuff with a darker storyline to it, but definitely not in this case.

Days of Ruin has an online mode, but unless you can convince your mates to get the game and play online with you it might be hard to actually complete a match as when I tried everyone just disconnected once it was clear they were likely to lose.

So in otherwords, if you liked the gameplay of Advance Wars, but would rather have something that wasn't a lighthearted, silly, CO power fest, then get DoR.raahsnavj

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