Re-Boot Camp introduces each CO at a comfortable pace, starting with Andy and Max, an inexperienced young CO who can magically repair units, and a beefy, confident veteran who can give his units an attack boost, respectively. As you plunge further into Advance Wars’ battles, its strategic depth starts to show.įurther layering the game’s intricacies are the COs: cartoonish, archetypal characters that have passive strengths and weaknesses, and can unleash special abilities once they’ve charged them up. Submarines can be powerful stealth units, but the ability to dive underwater and out of sight means they eat up fuel. Short-range units need to position themselves out of the firing range of artillery and rocket launchers. Infantry can easily move through forests and mountains, and can capture structures, but they are no match for tanks or helicopters. For example, a tank is highly vulnerable to bomber planes, but those planes are vulnerable to anti-air units. Players instead need to be more mindful of striking distances, movement ranges, terrain advantages, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual units. Unlike some strategy games, there’s no frenzied resource gathering - cities give players funds each day to spend on new units, and factories and airports, when present on a map, offer reinforcements. Battles in Advance Wars are slow and methodical - but thanks to a number of variables to consider like terrain, fog of war, and the special abilities of commanding officers (COs), they are rarely dull or predictable. Missions often play out like chess matches, where players (and their enemy) have a set number of units and shared goals: wipe out the opposing army, capture their main headquarters, or meet some other map-specific victory condition. Players strategically move infantry, tanks, planes, submarines, and battleships to take control of cities and factories, as part of an international conflict. The Switch duology brings back the charming, cartoony roots of Advance Wars, and delivers the slickest versions of the first two GBA games.Īdvance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is, like the more popular Fire Emblem games, composed of turn-based battles on grid-based maps, in which players build and command military units across land, sea, and air. Thanks to Shantae and River City Girls developer WayForward, a new generation of Nintendo fans have a chance to experience Advance Wars in a sleek, remade collection known (somewhat clumsily) as Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. In September 2022, in response to concerns about the possible cancellation of Re-Boot Camp, Nintendo reaffirmed that a new release date was still in the process of being determined.Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. It was initially pushed back to April 8, 2022, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 caused Nintendo to delay it again until further notice. The game was originally set to be released on December 3, 2021, but it was delayed twice. For offline and online versus battles, players can choose between the Advance Wars or Black Hole Rising rulesets. New features for both campaigns include the ability to fast-forward through battle animations and to reset the previous turn. Units and gameplay mechanics introduced in Black Hole Rising, such as Super CO Powers and Neotanks, are restricted to that campaign. Re-Boot Camp contains the full campaigns of Advance Wars and Black Hole Rising. The key differences between Re-Boot Camp and the original games are the new art style, re-recorded soundtrack, the use of 3D graphics, and the addition of online versus functionality. It is also the first Advance Wars game to release on the Nintendo Switch platform, and in a departure from previous installments, it is produced by developer WayForward. Turn-based Strategy Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a remake of Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, and the fifth game in the Advance Wars Series of games.
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