Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Reviews
Despite an awkward online offering, Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp is an excellent package that strategy fans both new and old will love.
"The pioneer of pocket strategy wars returns."
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Would I have preferred a brand new iteration of Advance Wars or a collection that didn’t cost sixty bucks? Of course. I have my qualms regarding the pricing and the visuals, but one thing’s for certain: this is still Advance Wars, and it’s still addictive. The return of the map creator and online matches ensure this collection’s lasting appeal goes beyond the duration of its two already entertaining campaigns.
Rewind back to 2001, young Sebby was playing an amazing, turn-based war game on his Gameboy Advance called Advance Wars. He was besotted by the cartoon art style. The amazing pixelated skirmishes took up a lot of time, as did moving tanks and destroying his enemies. Times were good man; times were good.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a well-done remake that hides the original game's age quite well.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp takes a strategic classic and modernises it – the fact that it is so close to the originals just confirms how wonderful they were in the first place.
Whether you’re a fan of the classics or new player, and whether you love strategy game or you’re total newbies, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a quality pack. Deep and accessible in equal measures, the gameplay expertly balances simplicity and challenge, making it so that players with all sorts of tastes can get many, many hours of fun from these remakes’ campaigns. There are quite a few frustrating aspects and levels that have us raising eyebrows, but that doesn’t stop this from being a quality title that will please any Nintendo fan.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp offers two excellent strategy titles which will keep players busy for a ton of hours. Whether you’re an old fan happy to be back in command or someone enlisting for the first time, there’s a lot to recommend here. A bit more work updating things, particularly the balance of the latter half of the first game and the multiplayer experience, would have been welcome but that shouldn’t stop those wanting an excellent strategy experience from picking this one up.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is not only a pure turn-based strategy videogame, it is a complex strategic challenge in which we will not be able to let go of the controller until victory is achieved.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Advance Wars 1+2 Re:Boot Camp might just find a permanent home on your Switch between its epic, lengthy campaigns, multiplayer variety, and custom maps. Nintendo and Wayforward have set up a release that is incredibly generous, highly enjoyable, while reinvigorating a franchise many thought they may never see again. Brutal difficulty curve aside, there’s no first party game on Nintendo’s lineup more suited for Switch than Advance Wars and if you’re willing to put the time in, you’ll be heavily, heartily rewarded.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is not for everyone, it is aimed at the fans of tactical turn-based strategy games. But if that's your thing, this is a must-try title for the Nintendo Switch. In addition to the satisfaction of reliving these classics, there is hope for a remake of the games in the series released for the Nintendo DS.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is an awesome strategy RPG that faithfully adapts Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising into one delightful remake. The remake provides a lot of compelling content with addicting gameplay that will keep players busy for tens of hours. Although online functionality is somewhat limited, the single-player content makes Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp a hidden gem on Nintendo Switch in 2023.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a hefty and fun title. It's not only an essential purchase for gamers who have been dreaming of the series coming back, but also works extremely well as an introduction to gamers who may have missed out originally. If you've already had your fill of Fire Emblem and crave something similar or like the idea of the series but not its fantasy theme, Advance Wars has you covered. It has all the addictive charm of a Nintendo title with some great strategy gameplay. Sadly there isn't anything in terms of "new" content for returning die-hards and the graphics can be a little deceptive, but delay or not, this is another great experience.
Advance Wars 1+2 ReBoot Camp delivers fun and difficult strategy missions, but misses some obvious features to be a more considerable improvement on the original.
Though Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp makes a couple odd calls, it’s primarily an enjoyable way to revisit some of the Game Boy Advance’s best tactics games. The 2D art is slick and the gameplay can devour your attention, though the lack of online matchmaking is a bummer. Regardless, if you’re itching for some tactical action with a fun setting, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a strong choice.
Competing with Fire Emblem for the title of premier strategy game on the Nintendo Switch, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a definitive combination of two cult classics.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a remake of the first two games in the Wars turn-based strategy franchise that came to the West, Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising for the Game Boy Advance, and Like the original titles, this is an outstanding title. It is true that the artistic section chosen by WayForward for this remake can cause controversy, and that the online multiplayer mode has been left with very few options and possibilities, but otherwise all the additions add to a couple of titles that already reached levels of quality very high. We hope that this test balloon is successful and allows the return of the franchise with a new installment or a remake of the two installments of Nintendo DS, either project would be more than welcome.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
No matter if this is your first foray into the world of Advance Wars, or if you’re a veteran of the franchise, this is easily the best version of the original games. If you even slightly enjoy strategy games and own a Nintendo Switch, this is a no-brainer to snag as soon as you can.
Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp joins that list of productions whose gameplay has not been affected in the slightest by the passage of time. The two titles made in the early 2000s by Intelligent Systems and Nintendo remain to this day two of the best exponents of the RTS genre even if the "wow effect" that permeated these games more than two decades ago has, of course, subsided by virtue of all that has come after.
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