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Advance war DS : Days of Ruin
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Written by BijiBoi on January 25 2008
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First of all, I'd like to say this. This review may include a few spoilers, so if you want to discover things by yourself, do not bother to read this review.

Gameplay
The gameplay is still pretty much the same, you're commanding an army at war. The turns and grid movement systems are still here, so no worries, for it is quite easy to learn how to play. But now, you can zoom in and out now XD.
Here comes the bad part : They removed the real time touch battle and dual map battle modes. Sigh.
But then again they nerved the co powers too. Now it takes real strategy to win, not just a well-timed dual CO power. This is good news to me, but I guess other people won't enjoy it. Can't win them all, eh?

Total : 8/10

Sound
Sound is perfect. THE END!

10/10

Story (Spoilers included)
A very good story, and this time black hole isn't in it, for once.
So, you're a young cadet at the rubinelle military academy. Meteors strike Earth, killing off most of the world and striking up a lot of dust/ash/whatever thus blocking out the sun. Rocks. Although sometimes you might feel sad, since people aren't

1)I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD! MUHAHAHAHA
2)I WILL SAVE THE WORLD!
3)Eh, whatever.

anymore. You might meet some jerks along the way. Wait what am I saying. You WILL meet some jerks along the way.

Love it.

10/10

Graphics
The graphics got a whole new makeover, making it more realistic. Yes, that's right. War isn't cute anymore. Although infantry still fly when you kill them XD. LOVE IT!
Grim post-doomsday graphics gets a 8/10 from me!

Units
Yeah, that's right. I made a whole section about units. SO SUE ME! Although this one won't get graded.
Well, I guess I'd better start off by saying : all the units that black hole and all the other countries developed are gone. Except the carrier, they tweaked that.

Removed units - Black boat, black bomb, stealth fighter, megatank, neo tank, piperunners, other I might have forgot.

Tweaked units - Carriers. Love them. Although now, instead of firing sea-air missiles with an incredible range, they shoot with some lame machine gun. Yeah. Direct units now. BOO! But, they can produce naval planes for 15k and they can deploy them. I think that that new feature rocks.

APC - Still do the same stuff, but now they can build temporary airports and ports. Those don't build anything, but you can use them to repair and refuel your air and sea units.

Battleships - My fave units from all time has become the king of the seas! Now, you can move THEN shoot! That just rocks.

Added units
Heheheheh. Here comes the good part.
War tanks - They replace them magatanks. Nuff' said.

Anti-tank - Like anti air, but long ranged. They can shoot copters, kill tanks in a very easy manner, are heavily armored and can shoot at adjacent squares and counter attack while under attack. All that in an indirect unit

Duster - Machine gun planes. They are kinda like the ones in WW1. Made to take out the infantry, and they're cheap too.

Gunboat - They fire only once. Keep that in mind. But they hurt a lot when they do. And they can carry 1 infantry unit.

Bikes - Same thing as infantry, except stronger and they go further.

Flares - Weak direct combat unit, but they can reveal a nearby part of the map in Fog of war.

Well that's all of it, I really enjoy this game and I hope you do too.

9/10 overall score.

By the way, this was my first review so if you don't like it, tell me and I'll try to improve. AFTER I EAT YOUR SOUL THAT IS

Comments
You better.
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Bands: Home Made Kazoku, Lemon Demon, Sum41, etc....

I have it sitting next to me right nao. I was gonna say, if they didn't have a mega tank, I lkill you.
Blogs: As of now...
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I've only played advanced wars 1 and 2 cozi don't have a ds >.>
Favorite CO: Sensei, Kanbei and Eagle =D. Im pro with air units.



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