Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Review Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Adv Wars Ruin - Box Art

Our good friend and resident DS expert MasterP has written an awesome review on the new turn-based strategy game Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. I’m posting it on his behalf for now…mainly to experiment and see how reviews should be posted here before setting the general format guidelines us authors should try to follow. Anyway, hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

“Days of Ruin” places a dark veil on the Advance Wars series that we’ve come to know and love. While I am typically a huge fan of games that take a light hearted approach, I have to be honest in the fact that after playing this game, I wholeheartedly welcome the majority of the changes that Intelligent Systems has made. The removal of the “Blue Sky” atmosphere, along with a wonderful narrative, has worked wonders for the game in comparison to its predecessors.

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