Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
In Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising brings your GBA all-new strategic action and all-new fighting action! Thrilling turn-based strategy gameplay that will put your brain & your reflexes to the test, in this…
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a strategy developed by Intelligent Systems, released 24 June 2003 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
What Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
While the Allied Nations were still recovering from the war in Cosmo Land, the Black Hole Army had already recovered and has decided to launch a large-scale invasion on Macro Land. Along with the original Black Hole army's commanding officers (COs), four new COs were recruited, under the command of Sturm. Sturm orders each Black Hole CO to invade and capture each of the four continents controlled by the four other armies from the original game: Orange Star was to be taken by Flak, Blue Moon by Lash, Yellow Comet by Adder, and Green Earth by Hawke. Lash also invented several new war weapons like the Black Cannon and the Mini Cannons that were to be put to use in this invasion. The four…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Wars series
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is the tenth of 17 entries we hold in the Wars series. It arrived 2 years after Advance Wars. The next entry was Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 in 2004. Its critic score of 91 is 5 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is Advance Wars at 100.
How it was received
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 58 votes.
What it launched against
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising launched on 24 June 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 and Viewtiful Joe. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, Viewtiful Joe.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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