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DS Daily: How goes the war, soldier?

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is proving quite the distraction. Intelligent Systems' strategy game has occupied our DSes for the last few days, with hours of play already racked up. When we close our eyes to sleep, we only see tiny tank and artillery sprites, moving in right angles across the back of our eyelids.

As the game also proved to be a popular choice at our most recent Game Night, we're guessing we're not alone in carrying out late-night, under-the-duvet sorties, so what are your impressions so far? Is Days of Ruin better or worse than Dual Strike, or even superior to the excellent GBA games? Are you focusing more on single-player, or fighting campaigns online? And do you miss Grit as much as we do?

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kronik21

1-28-2008 @ 3:43AM

kronik said...

just a quick note because a lot of you here talk about missing war room: it's in there! It's just called "free play" under "single player" now!
on topic: i'm loving this, though i've probably been spending as much time trying to connect to my wireless as i have playing the game :(

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Andrew22

1-28-2008 @ 4:35AM

Andrew said...

I'm really digging the multiplay, the only Con I have for it right now is sometimes P2 will start out on an advantageous map, and kinda ruins some of the 'fair play.'

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