Advance Wars is a long-running and award-winning series made by Nintendo for the GBA - until now. Yes, for the first time, you will be able to take the war to the Nintendo DS, leaving no prisoners. The game will bring turn based strategy gameplay onto two screens at once, and now includes added touching as standard.

Gamers who have played the Advance Wars games may remember the Black Hole Army from the second title in the series. Well, they have returned, and this time they have recruited brand new Commanding Officers (COís). Their mission is to once again attack the nations of Wars World and it falls down to the Allied Armies of Orange Star, Blue Moon, Yellow Comet and Green Earth to put an abrupt end to the Black Hole Army for once and for all.

The game now uses and benefits from the Nintendo DSís special abilities, allowing dual screen battles that go on in two places at once, and now the touch screen control means you can precisely control all parts of your army.

Advance Wars: Dual Strike features five different single player game modes that will make sure even the loneliest players are kept occupied. The main single player campaign mode offers a variety of dangerous and exciting missions to battle through, and the main aim is that players have to defend Wars World against the possible invasion and occupation of the Black Hole army.

The Wi-Fi wireless power of the Nintendo DS means that up to a total of eight players can go head to head at any time, as long as they are in range. This multiplayer aspect of the game is what everyone is really looking forward to, as you will be able to battle it out with all your mates to decide who the greatest general of them all actually is.

There will be two brand-new modes that will exclusively feature in this game, which are the survival and combat modes. The survival mode is where gamers have to try and win as many battles as they possibly can with very limited resources. The combat mode is where players have to control their own unitsí movement in an actual real time battle, which is a first for the series.

So there you have it, all the new information we now know, but it is still rather limited. Regardless, with all the new modes, features and functions of the Nintendo DS itself, Advance Wars: Dual Strike will most definitely be a huge hit for the DS when it is launched in Europe on 30th September 2005, at £29.99.

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