Battalion Wars

"Is this game good? No. Is this game bad? No. It's perfect."

Intro: Battalion Wars. A semi-sequel to the infamous Advance Wars saga. Really, there isn't much background on this game.

Graphics: 10/10 Absolutely stunning. These characters are the best I've ever seen in any game, ever. No, not that way you.....ugh, never mind. From units, to mountains, to trees (yes, the trees are very beautiful), to every thing else in the game, the graphics are without flaw.

Sound/Music: 9/10 Right when you turn this puppy on, you'll be amazed. Gunshots, cries for help, V.O.s, and of course, the ever-popular "You lose!" coming from your infantry, you will have to hang yourself if you aren't disappointed.

Story: 7/10 You, sir, are a commander in the....um....country....of....umm.....well, I'm not really sure. Western Frontier? Maybe? It's really hard to tell, since they didn't come up with.....original, shall we say....names. No more cool names like "Blue Moon", and "Green Earth." Nope. We got the Western Frontier. That's so much better. Anyway, I'm babbling on senselessly here, so anyway, you fight this other country consisting of a handsome young man, a fat old hag, and this old guy. Well, in a checkpoint in campaign mode, eventually you team up with them, to beat this other country. That place has a well thought out name too, but I'll just call it Zombie Island, because that's what they all look like. Well, that's about it. Not impressive, but, if you read my other reviews, you'll see that a "7" for story is pretty high.

Gameplay: 10/10 Ah....war. Sweet, sweet war. Just think. If it wasn't for WWI/WWII, and so on, we might not have these games. Yes, you heard me right. Might not have these games. Well, lucky for us, those wars did happen. Unlucky for the soldiers and government that had to fight in them though.....anyway, you lead a battalion. A battalion is basically a group of men in a war, 'case you didn't know that. Now, freeze right here. I'd like to talk about what you control in this battalion. You have millions of units (pre-deployed). Okay, maybe not millions....heck, there's barely 20....anyway, the units range from artillery, light recon, heavy recon, light tank, heavy tank. Blue fish, red fish. You also get about 5 kinds of infantry, that all help out in different cases. AAs, Bombers, Fighters, OOHH YEAH!!! Anyway, then you basically dwadle your battalion up and down mountains, through paths, blowing the cripes out of your enemies on the way. Very good. But you also get different objectives for different missions. For example, in the first few missions, all you basically have to do is just get from point A to point B. But, that quickly changes in the following missions. Sometimes you have to hurry up and go protect your HQ from getting captured, sometimes you have to go capture someone's HQ! There are a bunch of different missions, each one you get excited about, just wondering what it may be about.

Replayability: 9/10 I find myself picking this up alot. With 25+ missions, a few unlockables (I do mean few by the way), and a bunch of fun to behad in each and every mission, I think it pretty much succeeded.

Final Verdict: Buy Immediately. I deffinatly think that you deserve this game! It's rated T, but I really don't see why. I mean, sure, it's war, but c'mon! It looks cartoonier (cartoonier?) than a Bob the Builder cartoon! So, trust me. Donate $50 dollers to Wal-Mart and pick this game up. My one final beef about this game though. Brigadier Betty. Marshal Nova. Why do people need 2 freakin' names?!

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 10/03/05