Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

"The sequal to Advance War is here and its time to kick Sturm's butt again!"

Story: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Graphics: 9/10
Music/Sounds: 9/10
Replayability: 9/10
Fun Factor: 10/10
Overall:9/10

The game is great and you should buy this if you enjoyed the first one. Lets see why.......

Story: 10/10
Black Hole is at it again! Trying to take over a small continent and its the Advance War heroes to the rescue! The original team of Orange Star, Blue Moon, Green Earth, and Yellow Comet is back with 3 new COs to take on Sturm and his brand new 4 COs.

Gameplay: 9/10
Gameplay is fun and yet challenging. You have to try to kill all your enemies units or capture the enemies HQ. You have a brand new unit called a Neotank which is like the best ground unit and it costs a lot of money! Before you can create a Neotank you need to capture a Laboratory before you can make one. Black Hole also returned with black cannons, mini-cannons, lasers, and deathray for even more challenging to it.

Graphics: 9/10
The graphics for Advance Wars 2 looks exactly like Advance Wars 1 besides the fact that they add more characters faces and the opening scene which I like more than the original one. You can tell what unit is what and what team a certain unit is on. Also, every team has their corresponding color uniform instead of Orange Star, which has red color uniform.

Music/Sounds: 9/10
Whenever your playing the game you will hear a different song for whoever is moving. Also, whenever you attack your enemy or your enemy attacks you they make sounds that make you more believe its a war.

Replayability: 9/10
You need to replay the game over and over to get enough points to buy COs, their alternate costumes, and War Room Maps. Since you can have one single game pack and link up with other characters it makes it more fun and you only need one single pack.

Fun Factor: 10/10
This game is really fun if you like a strategy game. You move your guys around to kill your enemy or try to capture their HQ. Oh yea, you might not like this game as much if you don't like to do a lot of thinking over the summer, since it is summer right now (5/25/03).

Overall:9/10
If you loved the first game, you will love the second game even more. It's more fun than the first and it should like you a while!

Buy or Rent?
Buy
In my opinion this game should be one of the top Gameboy Advance games of 2003 and should be owned by all Gameboy Advance owners that love strategy games.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 06/25/03, Updated 06/25/03