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Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (2003)

Intelligent Systems

Game Boy Advance · Wii U

4.08 from 370 ratings

849 members have it in their collection · 19 playing now · 209 backlogged · 133 wish listed

How long? Main story 12h · with extras 13h (from 4 logged playthroughs)

In Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising brings your GBA all-new strategic action and all-new fighting action! Thrilling turn-based strategy gameplay that will put your brain & your reflexes to the test, in this sequel to the original hit!
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Details

Developers
Intelligent Systems
Publishers
Nintendo
Genres
Strategy, Tactical, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
Action, Science fiction, Warfare
Franchises
Wars
Series
Advance Wars
Event
Nintendo E3 2003 Press Conference

Release dates

  • Jun 24, 2003 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy Advance
  • Jul 10, 2003 (Full Release) (Australia) Game Boy Advance
  • Oct 03, 2003 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy Advance
  • Nov 25, 2004 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy Advance
  • Apr 03, 2014 (Full Release) (Japan) Wii U
  • Jul 02, 2015 (Full Release) (Europe) Wii U
  • Aug 20, 2015 (Full Release) (North_America) Wii U

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2 stars
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thebigmack

Status thebigmack Oct 22, 2021

After returning to an 18 year old saved game, I just beat Advance Wars 2 for the first time.

So much has changed since the mid 2000's. Yet my progress was safely nestled away, frozen in ones and zeroes, awaiting my return. Andy and Company would have seen their CO change in an instant.

Advance Wars 2 is just as …

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After returning to an 18 year old saved game, I just beat Advance Wars 2 for the first time.

So much has changed since the mid 2000's. Yet my progress was safely nestled away, frozen in ones and zeroes, awaiting my return. Andy and Company would have seen their CO change in an instant.

Advance Wars 2 is just as dynamic, playful and challenging as I remembered. Its nice to have progressed past the levels I was stuck on all those years ago. The most notable part was seeing the Ranks I received on each level during the credits. It was like getting a report card from a completely forgotten time.

There is something more to saved games than I thought.

I hope other titles have exact day and time stamps to their saves. Would be odd to know the exact moment you stopped playing 20 years ago.

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Reset_Tears

Status Reset_Tears Jul 14, 2019

I played through Advance Wars a long time ago, and this past year I finally got the chance to play the sequel. Advance Wars 2 is literally just "You Liked Advance Wars? Well, Here's Some More Advance Wars." Like, I'm really struggling to think of anything that's different or improved about this one. Which is fine I guess, IDK. I …

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I played through Advance Wars a long time ago, and this past year I finally got the chance to play the sequel. Advance Wars 2 is literally just "You Liked Advance Wars? Well, Here's Some More Advance Wars." Like, I'm really struggling to think of anything that's different or improved about this one. Which is fine I guess, IDK. I definitely got bored of this more quickly than the first one though, perhaps because the charm had worn off a bit. At the end of the day though it's still a solid game. But I'd just recommend the original Advance Wars to newcomers, and say get this if you really want more levels to of Advance Wars to play through.

This is a grid-based strategy game, in which you place troops and tanks and helicopters and whatnot on the battle map, and you take turns moving your units and attacking enemies. Capture all the bases or kill all the enemies to win. There is very little in terms of story to be had here, and your generals are all silly caricatures. Which is fine... but for these sorts of lengthy campaigns, I think I personally want something more to hook me, to keep me playing and wanting to find out what happens next. Perhaps some more variety to the enemy A.I. tactics could have helped spice things up a bit too, or more variety to the actual missions you have to complete.

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