Animation itself is very limited (only a very brief one for units moving across the playing grid and a short one for battles that is looped) and it isn't fantastic by any means. Within the battle animations, each team got very distinctive looking units for example, 'yellow's army' looks much like the Japanese army and navy of WW1 and WW2 which helps diversify the game a bit and prevent the eyes from falling asleep, so to speak. The various different areas in itself is The units all got appropriate images, but the AI's infantry can be confusing whether or not it is a foot soldier of mechanical units (this game's equivalent of panzer force infantry) can be unclear at times. The game is shot from an over the board perspective, showing the playing field much like a board game from the 80's with what is basically a large grid with units/locations on it. That is the two distinct features with advance war game's visuals: bright and competent. Fortunately, not only are they quite distinguishable, but are extremely colorful, high contrast images.

However, it is essential to distinguish each enemy here as there are different classes of units and it is important to tell them apart to properly plan. In games like horizontal space shooters, it isn't necessarily required to have 100% distinguishable enemies (though it is an excellent benefit) as the objective is the same: rapidly press/hold down the button to shoot and destroy them. It is relatively unaltered from the original title in this series, with only additional content and one or two extra game play mechanics.В Resultingly, someone who is a fan of the original game will likely enjoy this sequel, but what of the average strategy game fan? For a game like this, it is essential to be able to distinguish the various images in order to play accordingly. The player would have to take advantage of a number of unit types, and utilize the environments and terrain to their advantage to ensure victory. This game requires the player to build an army from certain buildings on a grid and advance them towards the opposing player or AI to either capture a critical building, destroy all of their units/capacity for war or reach a critical objective while preserving their own main base. Advance Wars 2, for all purposes intended, is a turn based strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems as a sequel to Advance Wars.

These two ways of playing a character in a war environment are entirely different as one dealsВ with strategicallyВ analyzingВ a situation in aВ matterВ of the big picture, and the other is hands on work in trying to make said picture be drawn.

It is intriguing how games tend to focus on one of two aspects of command: either the gamer plays as a grunt soldier initially then grows into a commando, or the player plays a high ranking official who steadily takes on more dangerous and/or complicated missions. Without getting into the actual political aspects, the average soldier has to do a lot of the grunt work while the officers handles the logistical and strategic aspects.

During a time of conflict, it is expected for the masses to serve their nations by both the high brass and the people of the nation. Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising Review by: Redrunelord - 8/10 Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising Let there be no doubt that the military, in all countries, got difficulties associated with the various rankings.

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